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2965-2989

  • Honour to the head that is severed by the King's hand! Shame on the head that betakes itself to another! 2965
  • The night which the King in his wrath covered with pitch (pitchy darkness) holds in disdain a thousand days of festival.
  • Verily, the circumambulation performed by him who beholds the King is above wrath and grace and infidelity and religion.
  • Not one word (capable of) expressing it has (ever) come into the world, for it is hidden, hidden, hidden,
  • Inasmuch as these glorious names and words were manifested from the reel (uttered from the mouth) of Adam.
  • He (God) taught (him) the names was an Imám (an infallible authority) for Adam; but (the teaching was) not in the garb of (letters such as) ‘ayn and lám. 2970
  • When he put on his head the cap of water and clay, those spiritual names became black-faced,
  • For they assumed the veil of letters and breath, (only) in order that the essential reality might (gradually) be made manifest to the water and clay.
  • Although from one point of view speech is a revealer, yet from ten points of view it is a curtain and concealer.
  • How Khalíl (Abraham) answered Gabriel, on both of whom be peace, when he asked him, "Hast thou any need?"—"As regards need of thee, no!"
  • “I am the Khalíl (Abraham) of the present time, and he is the Gabriel: I do not want him as a guide (to deliver me) in calamity.
  • He did not learn respectfulness (as he might) from noble Gabriel, who asked the Friend of God (Abraham) what was his wish, 2975
  • Saying, ‘Hast thou a wish?—that I may help (thee to obtain it); otherwise, I will flee and make a speedy departure.’
  • Abraham said, ‘No; begone out of the way! After direct vision the intermediary is (only) an inconvenience.’
  • On account of this present life the (Divine) messenger is a link for the true believers, because he is the intermediary (between them and God).
  • If every heart were hearing the hidden (Divine) revelation, how should there be in the world any words and sounds (to make it known)?
  • Though he (the intercessor) is lost in God and headless (devoid of self existence), yet my case is more delicate than that. 2980
  • His act is the act of the king, but to my infirmity the good (which he did) appears to be evil.”
  • That which is the very essence of grace to the vulgar becomes wrath to the noble favourites (of God).
  • Much tribulation and pain must the vulgar endure in order that they may be able to perceive the difference;
  • For, O (my) companion in the Cave, these intermediary words are, in the sight of one united (with God), thorns, thorns, thorns.
  • Much tribulation and pain and waiting were needed in order that that pure spirit might be delivered from the (intermediary) words; 2985
  • But some (persons) have become more deaf (than others) to this echo; some, again, have become purified and have mounted higher.
  • This tribulation is like the water of the Nile: it is water to the blessed and blood to the damned.
  • The more one descries the end, the more blessed is he: the greater one sees the crop (to be), the more zealously he sows,
  • Because he knows that this world of sowing is for the sake of the (Last) Congregation and (for the sake of) gathering in (the harvest).