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596-605

  • Inasmuch as he never saw ‘Umar (ibn) ‘Abdu ’l-‘Azíz, to him even Hajjáj seems just.
  • Inasmuch as he never saw the firmness (unshakable strength) of the dragon of Moses, he fancies (there is) life in the magic cords.
  • The bird that has never drunk the limpid water keeps its wings and feathers in the briny water.
  • No opposite can be known except through its opposite: (only) when he (any one) suffers blows will he know (the value of) kindness.
  • Consequently the present life has come in front (first), in order that you may appreciate the realm of Alast. 600
  • When you are delivered from this place and go to that place, you will give thanks (to God) in the sugar-shop of everlastingness.
  • You will say, ‘There (in the world below) I was sifting dust, I was fleeing from this pure world.
  • Alas, would that I had died ere now, so that my (time of) being tormented in the mud might have been less!’
  • Commentary on the saying of the Prophet, on whom be peace, “None ever died without wishing, if he was a righteous man, that he had died before he (actually) died, in order that he might sooner attain unto felicity; and if he was a wicked man, in order that his wickedness might be less.”
  • Hence the wise Prophet has said that no one who dies and dismounts from (the steed of) the body
  • Feels grief on account of departure and death, but (only) grieves because of having failed (in good works) and missed his opportunities. 605