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  • The spirit was made glad by that “I”-hood without “I” and sprang away from the “I”-hood of the world.
  • Since it has been delivered from “I,” it has now become “I”: blessings on the “I” that is without affliction; 4140
  • For it is fleeing (from its unreal “I”-hood), and (the real) “I”-hood is running after it, since it saw it (the spirit) to be selfless.
  • (If) you seek it (the real “I”-hood), it will not become a seeker of you: (only) when you have died (to self) will that which you seek become your seeker.
  • (If) you are living, how should the corpse-washer wash you? (If) you are seeking, how should that which you seek go in search of you?
  • If the intellect could discern the (true) way in this question, Fakhr-i Rází would be an adept in religious mysteries;
  • But since he was (an example of the saying that) whoso has not tasted does not know, his intelligence and imaginations (only) increased his perplexity. 4145
  • How should this “I” be revealed by thinking? That “I” is revealed (only) after passing away from self (faná).
  • These intellects in their quest (of the real “I”) fall into the abyss of incarnation (hulúl) and ittihád.
  • O Ayáz who hast passed away (from self) in union (with God) like the star in the beams of the sun—