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723-732

  • You have suffered much agony, but you are (still) in the veil, because dying (to self) was the fundamental principle, and you have not fulfilled it.
  • Your agony is not finished till you die: you cannot reach the roof without completing the ladder.
  • When two rungs out of a hundred are wanting, the striver will be forbidden to (set foot on) the roof. 725
  • When the rope lacks one ell out of a hundred, how should the water go from the well into the bucket?
  • O Amír, you will not experience the wreck of this ship (of self-existence) till you put into it the last mann.
  • Know that the last mann is fundamental, for it is (like) the (piercing) star that rises at night: it wrecks the ship of evil suggestion and error.
  • The ship of (self-)consciousness, when it is utterly wrecked, becomes (like) the sun in the blue vault (of heaven).
  • Inasmuch as you have not died, your agony has been prolonged: be extinguished in the dawn, O candle of Tiráz! 730
  • Know that the Sun of the world is hidden till our stars have become hidden.
  • Wield the mace against yourself: shatter egoism to pieces, for the bodily eye is (as) cottonwool in the ear.