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4
445-469

  • (The person denoted by the word) muhdarún (brought into the presence) is not non-existent (ma‘dúm). Consider (this) well, that you may gain certain knowledge of the everlasting life (baqá) of the spirits. 445
  • The spirit debarred from everlasting life is exceedingly tormented; the spirit united (with God) in everlasting life is free from (every) barrier.
  • I have told you the purpose of this lamp of animal sense-perception. Beware of seeking to become one (with it in spirit).
  • Make your spirit, O such-and-such, to be united speedily with the holy spirits of the Travellers (on the mystic Way).
  • Your hundred lamps, then, whether they die (are extinguished) or whether they stand (and burn), are separate (from each other) and are not single.
  • On that account these companions of ours are all at war, (but) no one (ever) heard of war amongst the prophets, 450
  • Because the light of the prophets was the Sun, (while) the light of our senses is lamp and candle and smoke.
  • One (of these lamps) dies, one lasts till daybreak; one is dim, another bright.
  • The animal soul is (kept) alive by nutriment; however good or bad its state may be, it dies all the same.
  • If this lamp dies and is extinguished, (yet) how should the neighbour's house become dark?
  • Inasmuch as without this (lamp) the light in that house is still maintained, hence (it follows that) the lamp of sense-perception is different in every house. 455
  • This is a parable of the animal soul, not a parable of the divine soul.
  • Again, when the moon is born from the Hindú, Night, a light falls upon every window.
  • Count the light of those hundred houses as one, for the light of this (house) does not remain (in existence) without (the light of) the other.
  • So long as the sun is shining on the horizon, its light is a guest in every house;
  • Again, when the spiritual Sun sets, the light in all the houses disappears. 460
  • This is (only) a parable of the Light, not a (complete) similitude; for you (it is) a true guide, for the enemy (of the Light) a highwayman.
  • That evil-natured person resembles the spider: he weaves stinking veils (cobwebs).
  • Of his own gossamer he made a veil over the Light: he made the eye of his apprehension blind.
  • If one takes hold of a horse's neck, he gains advantage; and if he takes hold of its leg, he receives a kick.
  • Do not mount the restive horse without a bridle: make Reason and Religion your leader, and farewell. 465
  • Do not look scornfully and contemptuously on this quest, for in this Way there is (need of) self-denial and grievous anguish to (men's) souls.
  • The rest of the Story of the building of the Farther Mosque.
  • When Solomon began the building—holy like the Ka’ba, august like Miná—
  • In his building were seen splendour and magnificence: it was not frigid (dull and lifeless) like other buildings.
  • From the first, every stone in the building—(every stone) that was broken off from the mountain—was saying clearly, “Take me along!”