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6
224-233

  • All the (people in the) world are fleeing from their free-will and (self-)existence to their drunken (unconscious) side.
  • In order that for awhile they may be delivered from sobriety (consciousness), they lay upon themselves the opprobrium of wine and minstrelsy. 225
  • All know that this existence is a snare, that volitional thought and memory are a hell.
  • They are fleeing from selfhood into selflessness either by means of intoxication or by means of (some engrossing) occupation, O well-conducted man.
  • Thou (O God) drawest the soul back from that state of not-being because it entered into unconsciousness without Thy command.
  • Neither for the Jinn (genies) nor for mankind is it (possible) to pierce through the prison of the regions of the temporal world.
  • There is no piercing through the cavities of the highest heavens save by the power of Guidance. 230
  • There is no guidance save by a power that preserves the spirit of the devout from the keepers of the shooting stars.
  • There is no way (admittance) for any one, till he become naughted, into the audience-chamber of (Divine) Majesty.
  • What is the means of ascension to Heaven? This not-being. Not-being is the creed and religion of the lovers (of God).