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1534-1558

  • When it sees in a lifeless being the colour (appearance) of a desired one, (’tis as though) it heard the voice of a beloved in a whistle.
  • Deficient knowledge cannot discriminate: of necessity it deems the lightning to be the sun. 1535
  • When the Prophet called the “deficient” (man) accursed, (his meaning) as interpreted was “deficiency of mind,”
  • Because one whose body is deficient is the object of (Divine) mercy: cursing and repulse (directed) against the object of (Divine) mercy are improper.
  • ’Tis deficiency of mind that is the bad disease: it is the cause of (God's) curse and merits banishment (from His presence),
  • Forasmuch as the perfecting of minds is not remote (impossible), but the perfecting of the body is not within our power.
  • The miscreance and Pharaoh-like pride of every infidel who is far (from God) have all been produced by deficiency of mind. 1540
  • Relief for bodily deficiency has come in the (words of the) Qur’án—it is no crime in the blind man.
  • Lightning is transient and very faithless: without clearness (of mind) you will not know the transient from the permanent.
  • The lightning laughs: say, at whom is it laughing? At him that sets his heart upon its light.
  • The lights of the sky are hamstrung (feeble and imperfect): how are they like (that Light which is) neither of the east nor of the west?
  • Know that the nature of lightning is that it taketh away the sight; regard the everlasting Light as entirely Helpers (to the attainment of vision). 1545
  • To ride (your) horse upon the foam of the sea, to read a letter in a flash of lightning,
  • Is, to fail, because of covetousness, to see the end; it is, to laugh at your own mind and intellect.
  • Intellect, by its proper nature, is a seer of the end (consequence); ’tis the fleshly soul that does not see the end.
  • The intellect that is vanquished by the flesh becomes the flesh: Jupiter is checkmated by Saturn and becomes inauspicious.
  • Still, turn this gaze (of yours) upon this inauspiciousness, look on that One who made you ill-starred. 1550
  • The gaze (of him) that surveys this ebb and flow pierces from the inauspicious influence to the auspicious.
  • He (God) continually turns you from one state (of feeling) to another, manifesting opposite by means of opposite in the change,
  • For the purpose that fear of the left hand side may bring to birth in you the delight of “He causes the (blessed) men to hope for the right hand side,”
  • So that you may have two wings (fear and hope); for the bird that has (only) one wing is unable to fly, O excellent (reader).
  • (O God), either let me not come to speech (at all), or give me leave to tell (the whole) to the end. 1555
  • But if Thou willest neither this nor that, ’tis Thine to command: how should any one know what Thou intendest?
  • One must needs have the spirit of Abraham to see in the fire Paradise and its palaces by the light (of mystic knowledge);
  • And mount step by step above the moon and the sun, lest he remain like the door-ring fastened on the door;