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  • Infidels are content with the figures of the prophets which are painted (and kept) in churches;

  • (But) as we have (enjoy) a bright period (of inward illumination) from those moons, we have no care for a shadow-figure. 3600

  • The one figure of him (the prophet) is seated in the (sublunary) world, while his other figure is in heaven, like the moon.

  • This mouth of him is speaking on subtle points (of religion) to those sitting beside him, while the other (mouth) is (engaged) in discourse with God and intimate (with Him).

  • His outward ear is apprehending these (external) words, while his spiritual ear is drawing (into itself) the mysteries of (the Creative Word) Be.

  • His outward eye is apprehending human forms and features, while his inward eye is dazzled in (the glory of) the eye did not stray.

  • His outward feet stand evenly in the row (of worshippers) in the mosque, while his spiritual feet are (engaged) in circumambulation above the sky. 3605

  • Reckon up every member of him (and judge of it) in like fashion: this (bodily part) is within Time, while that (spiritual part) is beyond Time.

  • This which is in Time endures till death, while the other is the associate of everlastingness and the peer of eternity.

  • One name of him is “owner of the two empires”; one description of him is “Imám of the two qiblas.”