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  • Mirror and balance are noble touchstones: if thou do service (sue) to them for two hundred years,

  • Saying, ‘Conceal the truth for my sake, display the surplus and do not display the deficiency,’

  • They will say to thee, ‘Do not laugh at thy beard and moustache: mirror and balance, and then deceit and (hypocritical) advice!

  • Since God has raised us up in order that by means of us it may be possible to know the truth, 3550

  • If this do not happen (if we fail to display the truth), what worth have we, O young man? How shall we become a standard for the face of the fair?’

  • But (said the Prophet) slip the mirror (back) into the cloth, if (Divine) illumination has made thy breast a Sinai.”

  • He (Zayd) said, “Why, shall the Sun of the Truth and the Sun of Eternity be contained any wise under the armpit?

  • It bursts asunder both imposture (daghal) and armpit (baghal); in its presence neither madness nor (soundness of) understanding remains.”

  • He (the Prophet) said, “When thou layest one finger on an eye, thou seest the world empty of the sun. 3555

  • One finger-tip becomes a veil over the moon—and this is a symbol of the King's covering—

  • So that the (whole) world may be covered (hidden from view) by a single point, and the sun be eclipsed by a splinter.”

  • Close thy lips and gaze on the depth of the sea (within thee): God made the sea subject to man,

  • Even as the fountains of Salsabíl and Zanjabíl are under the control of the exalted ones of Paradise.

  • The four rivers of Paradise are under our control; this is not (by) our might, ’tis (by) the command of God: 3560

  • We keep them flowing wheresoever we will, like magic (which takes its course) according to the desire of the magicians,

  • Just as these two flowing eye-fountains (the two eyes) are under the control of the heart and subject to the command of the spirit.

  • If it (the heart) will, they turn towards poison and the snake, and if it will, they turn to (edifying) consideration.

  • If it will, they turn to sensuous things, and if it will, they turn to things clothed (in the forms of thought and phantasy).

  • If it will, they advance towards universals, and if it will, they remain in bondage to particulars. 3565

  • Similarly all the five senses are passing (in movement) according to the will and command of the heart, like the spool (in the hand of a weaver).

  • All the five senses are moving and trailing their skirts (sweeping along) in whatever direction the heart indicates to them.

  • Hand and foot are plainly under command of the heart, like the staff in the hand of Moses.

  • If the heart will, at once the foot begins to dance, or flees from defect towards increase.

  • If the heart will, the hand comes to terms with the fingers to write a book. 3570

  • The hand remains in (the grasp of) a hidden hand: it (the hidden hand) within has set the body outside (as its instrument).