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1240-1264

  • In the eyes of Moses the name of his rod was ‘staff’; in the eyes of the Creator its name was ‘dragon.’ 1240
  • Here the name of ‘Umar was ‘idolater,’ but in Alast. his name was ‘believer.’
  • That of which the name, with us, was ‘seed’ was, in the sight of God, this figure (of thee) who art (now) with me.
  • This ‘seed’ was a form (idea) in non-existence (potentiality), existent with God, neither more nor less (than the form in which it appeared externally).
  • In brief, that which is our end is really our name with God.
  • He bestows on a man a name according to his final state, not according to that (state) to which He gives the name of ‘a loan.’ 1245
  • Inasmuch as the eye of Adam saw by means of the Pure Light, the soul and inmost sense of the names became evident to him.
  • Since the angels perceived in him the rays of God, they fell in worship and hastened to do homage.
  • If until the Resurrection I reckon up the praise of this Adam whose name I am celebrating, I fall short (of what is due).
  • All this he knew; (yet) when the Divine destiny came, he was at fault in the knowledge of a single prohibition,
  • Wondering whether the prohibition was for the purpose of making unlawful (the thing prohibited), or whether it admitted of an interpretation and was a cause of perplexity. 1250
  • When (the view that it admitted of) interpretation prevailed in his mind, his nature hastened in bewilderment towards the wheat.
  • When the thorn went into the foot of the gardener (Adam), the thief (Satan) found an opportunity and quickly carried off the goods.
  • As soon as he escaped from bewilderment, he returned into the (right) road; (then) he saw that the thief had carried off the wares from the shop.
  • He cried, ‘O Lord, we have done wrong,’ and ‘Alas,’ that is to say, ‘darkness came and the way was lost.’
  • Divine destiny, then, is a cloud that covers the sun: thereby lions and dragons become as mice. 1255
  • If I (the hoopoe) do not see a snare in the hour of Divine ordainment, ’tis not I alone who am ignorant in the course of Divine ordainment.”
  • Oh, happy he that clave to righteousness, he (that) let (his own) strength go and took to supplication!
  • If the Divine destiny shrouds thee in black like night, yet the Divine destiny will take thy hand (and guide thee) at the last.
  • If the Divine destiny a hundred times attempts thy life, yet the Divine destiny gives thee life and heals thee.
  • This Divine destiny, if a hundred times it waylays thee, (nevertheless) pitches thy tent on the top of Heaven. 1260
  • Know that this is from the loving kindness (of God), that He terrifies thee in order that He may establish thee in the kingdom of security.
  • This subject hath no end. ’Tis late. Hearken (now) to the story of the hare and the lion.
  • How the hare drew back from the lion when he approached the well.
  • When the lion came near the well, he saw that the hare lagged on the way and stepped back.
  • He said, “Why have you stepped back? Do not step back, come on!”