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6
3183-3192

  • The whole sum of pictured forms (phenomena) is a (mere) reflexion in the water of the river: when you rub your eye, (you will perceive that) all of them are really He.
  • Again, his (the debtor's) reason said (to him), “Abandon this seeing double: vinegar is grape-syrup and grape-syrup is vinegar.
  • Since, from defect (of vision), you have called the Khwája ‘other’ (than God), be ashamed (contrite) before the jealous King, O man of double sight. 3185
  • Do not suppose the Khwája, who has passed beyond the aether (the ninth celestial sphere), to be homogeneous with these mice of darkness.
  • Regard the Khwája as spirit, do not regard him as gross body: regard him as marrow, do not regard him as bone.
  • Do not look at the Khwája with the eye of Iblís the accursed, and do not relate him (refer his origin) to clay.
  • Do not call the fellow-traveller of the Sun ‘a bat’: do not call him who was worshipped (by the angels) a worshipper (of the material).
  • This (Khwája) resembles the (other) reflexions; but (in reality) ’tis not a reflexion, ’tis the appearance of God in the likeness of a reflexion. 3190
  • He beheld a Sun and remained frozen no more: the oil of roses was no longer (mingled with) oil of sesame.
  • Since the Abdál (Lieutenants) of God have been transmuted, they are not (to be reckoned) among created beings: turn over a (new) leaf!