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1715-1739

  • Our King (God) has given permission, (saying), “Commemorate Allah”: He saw us in the fire and gave us light. 1715
  • He has said, “Although I far transcend your commemoration (of Me), (and although) the pictorial ideas (of human speech) are not suitable to Me,
  • Yet he that is intoxicated with (pictorial) imagination and fancy will never apprehend My essence without (the help of) similitude.”
  • Bodily commemoration is an imperfect fancy: the Kingly attributes are remote from those (forms of speech).
  • If any one say of a king, “He is not a weaver,” what praise is this? He (that person) is surely ignorant.
  • How Moses, on whom be peace, took offence at the prayer of the shepherd.
  • Moses saw a shepherd on the way, who was saying, “O God who choosest (whom Thou wilt), 1720
  • Where art Thou, that I may become Thy servant and sew Thy shoes and comb Thy head?
  • That I may wash Thy clothes and kill Thy lice and bring milk to Thee, O worshipful One;
  • That I may kiss Thy little hand and rub Thy little foot, (and when) bedtime comes I may sweep Thy little room,
  • O Thou to whom all my goats be a sacrifice, O Thou in remembrance of whom are my cries of ay and ah!”
  • The shepherd was speaking foolish words in this wise. Moses said, “Man, to whom is this (addressed)?” 1725
  • He answered, “To that One who created us; by whom this earth and sky were brought to sight.”
  • “Hark!” said Moses, “you have become very backsliding (depraved); indeed you have not become a Moslem, you have become an infidel.
  • What babble is this? what blasphemy and raving? Stuff some cotton into your mouth!
  • The stench of your blasphemy has made the (whole) world stinking: your blasphemy has turned the silk robe of religion into rags.
  • Shoes and socks are fitting for you, (but) how are such things right for (One who is) a Sun? 1730
  • If you do not stop your throat from (uttering) these words, a fire will come and burn up the people.
  • If a fire has not come, (then) what is this smoke? Why has your soul become black and your spirit rejected (by God)?
  • If you know that God is the Judge, how is it right for you (to indulge in) this doting talk and familiarity?
  • Truly, the friendship of a witless man is enmity: the high God is not in want of suchlike service.
  • To whom are you saying this? To your paternal and maternal uncles? Are the body and (its) needs among the attributes of the Lord of glory? 1735
  • (Only) he that is waxing and growing drinks milk: (only) he that has need of feet puts on shoes.
  • And if these words of yours are (meant) for His servant, of whom God said, ‘He is I and I myself am he’;
  • (For him) of whom He (God) said, ‘Verily, I was sick and thou didst not visit Me,’ (that is), ‘I became ill, not he (the sick man) alone’;
  • (For him) who has become seeing by Me and hearing by Me— this (talk of yours) is foolish nonsense even in regard to that servant.