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6
174-183

  • The purport (is this, that) the indications (esoteric teachings) of Mohammed are wholly revelation within revelation within revelation.
  • A hundred thousand blessings on his spirit and on the advent and cycle of his sons! 175
  • Those fortunate Caliph-born sons of his are born of the substance of his soul and heart.
  • Whether they be of Baghdád or Herát or Rayy, they are his progeny without admixture of water and earth.
  • Wherever the rose-bough blossoms, ’tis still the (same) rose; wherever the wine-jar bubbles, ’tis still the (same) wine.
  • If the sun uplift its head (rise) from the west, ’tis the same sun, not anything else.
  • O Maker, by means of Thy veiling grace keep the fault-pickers blind to this (mystic) utterance. 180
  • God said (in answer to my prayer), “I have blindfolded the eyes of the evil-natured bat (so as to prevent it) from (seeing) the peerless Sun.
  • From the glances of the infirm and feeble bat even the stars of that Sun are concealed.”
  • In blame of the rotten (worthless) reputations which prevent spiritual experience of the Faith and point to insincerity and stand in the way of hundreds of thousands of fools; as (for example) the (flock of) sheep stood in the way of a certain effeminate person, and he durst not pass, so he asked the shepherd, “Will these sheep of yours bite me, I wonder?” “If you are a man,” he replied, “and the root of manhood is in you, they all are devoted to you; but if you are effeminate, each one of them is a dragon to (destroy) you.” There is another (kind of) effeminate person who, when he sees the sheep, immediately turns back and does not dare to ask (the shepherd); for he is afraid that, if he asks, the sheep will fall upon him and bite him.
  • Come, O Radiance of God, Husámu’ddín, O polisher of the spirit and sovereign of the Way to salvation,