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1387-1411

  • We have returned from the lesser Jihád, we are engaged along with the Prophet in the greater Jihád.
  • I pray God to grant me strength and aid and (the right of) boasting, that I may root up with a needle this mountain of Qáf.
  • Deem of small account the lion (champion) who breaks the ranks (of the enemy): the (true) lion is he that breaks (conquers) himself.
  • How the ambassador of Rúm came to the Commander of the Faithful, ‘Umar, may God be well-pleased with him, and witnessed the gifts of grace with which ‘Umar, may God be well-pleased with him, was endowed.
  • To ‘Umar in Medina there came through the wide desert an ambassador from the Emperor of Rúm. 1390
  • He said, “O ye attendants, where is the palace of the Caliph, that I may take thither my horse and baggage?”
  • The folk said to him, “He has no palace: ‘Umar's (only) palace is an illumined spirit.
  • Though he has a (great) renown from being Commander (of the Faithful), he has (no dwelling except) a hut, like the poor.
  • O brother, how wilt thou behold his palace, when hair has grown in the eye of thy heart?
  • Purge thy heart's eye of hair and defect, and then hope to behold his palace. 1395
  • Whoever hath a spirit purged of (sensual) desires will at once behold the Presence and the Holy Porch.
  • When Mohammed was purged of this fire and smoke (of human passions), wheresoever he turned his face, was the Face of Allah.
  • Inasmuch as thou art a friend to the evil suggestions of the malign one (Satan), how wilt thou know (the true meaning of) There is the Face of Allah?
  • Every one in whose breast the gate is opened will behold from every city the sun (shining).
  • God is manifest amongst others as the moon amidst the stars. 1400
  • Lay two finger-ends on thy two eyes, and wilt thou see aught of the world? Deal justly (confess that thou wilt see nothing).
  • If thou dost not see this world, (yet) it is not non-existent: the fault lies not save in the finger of thy evil self.
  • Come, lift the finger from thine eye, and then behold whatsoever thou wishest.
  • To Noah his people said, ‘Where is the Divine recompense?’ He said, ‘On the other side of they cover themselves with their garments.
  • Ye have wrapped your faces and heads in your clothes: of necessity ye have eyes and see not.’ 1405
  • Man is eye, and (all) the rest is (worthless) skin: the sight of that (eye) is (consists in) seeing the Beloved.
  • When there is not sight of the Beloved, it (the eye) is better blind; the beloved who is not everlasting is better afar (away and out of sight).”
  • When the ambassador of Rúm admitted these fresh (spiritual) words into his hearing (gave ear to them), he became more full of longing.
  • He fixed his eye on seeking ‘Umar, he let his baggage and horse be lost.
  • He was going in every direction after that man of (great) accomplishment, inquiring madly for him, 1410
  • Saying, “Can there be in the world such a man, and he be hid, like the spirit, from the world?”