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1451-1475

  • He spake into the ear of the rose and made it laughing (blooming); He spake to the stone and made it a cornelian of the mine.
  • He spake to the body a sign (message), so that it became spirit; He spake to the sun, so that it became radiant.
  • Again He breathes into its ear a fearful saying, and upon the face of the sun fall a hundred eclipses.
  • Consider what that Speaker chanted into the ear of the cloud, so that it poured tears from its eye, like a waterskin.
  • Consider what God has chanted into the ear of the earth, so that it became regardful and has (ever since) remained silent.” 1455
  • Whosoever in perplexity is sorely troubled, God has spoken the riddle into his ear,
  • That He may imprison him in two (doubtful) thoughts, (namely), “Shall I do that? He said that (bade me do that) or the contrary thereof?”
  • From (the decree of) God also, one side obtains the preponderance, and from that (Divine) quarter he chooses one of the two (alternatives).
  • If thou wouldst not have the mind of thy spirit in (a state of) perplexity, do not stuff this cotton-wool into thy spiritual ear,
  • So that thou mayst understand those riddles of His, so that thou mayst apprehend (both) the secret sign and the open. 1460
  • Then the spiritual ear becomes the place where wahy (inspiration) descends. What is wahy? A speech hidden from sense-perception.
  • The spiritual ear and eye are other than this sense-perception, the ear of (discursive) reason and the ear of opinion are destitute of this (inspiration).
  • The word “compulsion” (jabr) made me impatient (uncontrollable) for love's sake, while it confined in (the prison of) compulsion him who is not a lover.
  • This is union with God, and it is not compulsion: this is the shining forth of the moon, this is not a cloud.
  • And if this be compulsion, it is not the compulsion of (suffered by) the vulgar: it is not the compulsion of (exerted by) the evil-commanding self-willed (soul). 1465
  • O son, (only) they know (the real meaning of) compulsion in whose hearts God has opened the sight (of the spiritual eye).
  • To them the unseen and the future became manifest; to them recollection of the past became naught.
  • Their freewill and compulsion is different (from that of ordinary men): in oyster-shells drops (of rain) are pearls.
  • Outside (of the shell) it is a drop of water, small or great, (but) within the shell it is a small or big pearl.
  • Those persons have the nature of the muskdeer's gland: externally they are (as) blood, while within them is the fragrance of musk. 1470
  • Do not say, “This substance externally is blood: how should it become a musky perfume when it goes into the gland?”
  • Do not say, “This copper externally was despicable: how should it assume nobility in the heart (midst) of the elixir?”
  • In thee (the matter of) freewill and compulsion was a (mere) fancy, (but) when it went into them it became the light of (Divine) Majesty.
  • When bread is (wrapped) in the tablecloth it is the inanimate thing (so-called), (but) in the human body it becomes the glad spirit (of life).
  • It does not become transmuted in the heart of (within) the table-cloth: the (animal) soul transmutes it with (the water of) Salsabíl. 1475