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1888-1897

  • (This is) in order that every seeker may attain to the object of his search, and that everything destined to set may go to its point of setting.
  • No object of search is withheld from the seeker: the sun is paired with heat and the cloud with water.
  • The present world is the Creator's penitentiary: since you have chosen (to incur) punishment, suffer punishment! 1890
  • Contemplate the bones and hair of the punished ones (whom) the sword of (Divine) punishment overthrew on sea and land.
  • Consider the bird's feathers and feet (lying) around the trap and silently expounding (the nature of) God's punishment.
  • He (the worldling) dies and leaves a (sepulchral) vault to occupy his place; and (in the case of) one who has lain for ages (in the earth), even the vault has disappeared.
  • The justice of God hath mated every one (with one of his own kind)—elephant with elephant and gnat with gnat.
  • The familiar associates of Ahmad (Mohammed) were the Four Friends, (while) the familiars of Bú Jahl were ‘Utba and Dhu ’l-Khimár. 1895
  • The Ka‘ba of Gabriel and the (celestial) spirits is a Lotus-tree; the qibla of the belly-slave is a table-cloth (covered with dishes of food).
  • The qibla of the gnostic is the light of union (with God); the qibla of the philosopher's intellect is phantasy.