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  • And if there be no effect (outward sign), the cause too makes manifest (that which is hidden), as (for example) kinship gives information concerning love (enables you to infer the presence of love). 2635

  • He to whom the light of God has become a guide is not a slave to effects or causes—

  • Or (if he is a slave to them) Love will throw a spark within, wax mighty, and make (the illumined one) independent of effect.

  • He has no need to make his love known, since Love has shot its radiance over the sky (of his heart).

  • There are detailed explanations (which I could give) in order to complete this subject; but seek them (for yourself), and (now) farewell.

  • Although the inner meaning is visible in this outward form, the form is (both) near to the meaning and far (from it). 2640

  • In regard to indication, they (the meaning and the form) are like the sap and the tree; (but) when you turn to the quiddity, they are very far (removed from each other).

  • (Let me) take leave of quiddities and essential properties, and relate what happened to those twain with faces like the moon.

  • How the Arab set his heart on (complying with) his beloved's request and swore that in thus submitting (to her) he had no (idea of) trickery and making trial (of her).

  • The man said, “Now I have ceased to oppose (thee): thou hast authority (to do what thou wilt): draw the sword from the sheath.

  • Whatsoever thou biddest me do, I will obey: I will not consider the bad or good result of it.

  • I will become non-existent in thy existence, because I am thy lover: love makes blind and deaf.” 2645

  • The wife said, “Dost thou intend to treat me with kindness, or art thou (bent on) discovering my secret by trickery?”

  • He said, “(No), by God who knows the thought most deeply hid, who out of dust created Adam pure (chosen above all),

  • Who, in the body three cubits long which He gave him, displayed everything that was contained in the tablets (of destiny) and the (world of) spirits.

  • Through his He (God) taught him (Adam) the Names (through his God-given knowledge) he at the very first gave instruction (to the angels) concerning everything that shall come to pass unto everlasting,

  • So that the angels became beside themselves (in amazement) at his teaching, and gained from his glorification (of God) a holiness other (than they possessed before). 2650

  • The revelation that appeared to them from Adam was not (contained) in the amplitude of their heavens.

  • In comparison with the spaciousness of the range of that pure spirit (Adam), the expanse of the seven heavens became narrow.

  • The Prophet said that God has said, ‘I am not contained at all in “high” and “low” (spatial dimensions);

  • I am not contained in earth or heaven or even in the empyrean—know this for certain, O noble one;

  • (But) I am contained in the true believer's heart: oh, how wonderful! If thou seekest Me, search in those hearts.’ 2655

  • He (God) said (also), ‘Enter among My servants, thou wilt meet with a Paradise (consisting) of vision of Me, O God-fearing one.’

  • The empyrean, notwithstanding its wide (far-extending) light, when it beheld that (spirit of Adam), was confounded.

  • Truly, the magnitude of the empyrean is very great, but who (what) is form when reality has arrived?

  • Every angel was saying (to Adam), ‘Before this (time) we had a friendship (with thee) on the face of the earth.