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5
12-21

  • Can he ever mask it (the Sun) from (men's) eyes and (prevent it) from giving freshness to things rotten?
  • Or can they diminish its infinite light or rise in resistance to its power?
  • Whosoever is envious of (him who is) the World—verily, that envy is everlasting death.
  • Thy dignity hath transcended intellectual apprehension: in describing thee the intellect has become an idle fool. 15
  • (Yet), although this intellect is too weak to declare (what thou art), one must weakly make a movement (attempt) in that (direction).
  • Know that when the whole of a thing is unattainable the whole of it is not (therefore to be) relinquished.
  • If you cannot drink (all) the flood-rain of the clouds, (yet) how can you give up water-drinking?
  • If thou wilt not communicate the mystery, (at least) refresh (our) apprehensions with the husk thereof.
  • (My) spoken words are (only) a husk in relation to thee, but they are a good kernel for other understandings. 20
  • The sky is low in relation to the empyrean; else, in respect of the earth-mound, it is exceedingly high.