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522-546

  • Externally the branch is the origin of the fruit; intrinsically the branch came into existence for the sake of the fruit.

  • If there had not been desire and hope of the fruit, how should the gardener have planted the root of the tree?

  • Therefore in reality the tree was born of the fruit, (even) if in appearance it (the fruit) was generated by the tree.

  • Hence Mustafá (Mohammed) said, “Adam and the (other) prophets are (following) behind me under (my) banner.” 525

  • For this reason that master of (all) sorts of knowledge has uttered the allegorical saying, “We are the last and the foremost.”

  • (That is to say), “If in appearance I am born of Adam, in reality I am the forefather of (every) forefather,

  • Since the worship of the angels was (rendered) to him for my sake, and he ascended to the Seventh Heaven on my account.

  • Therefore in reality the Father (Adam) was born of me, therefore in reality the tree was born of the fruit.”

  • The thought (idea), which is first, comes last into actuality, in particular the thought that is eternal. 530

  • To sum up, in a single moment the caravan is going from Heaven and coming here.

  • This way is not long for this caravan: how should the desert show itself formidable to him who has been granted success (by God)?

  • The heart (spirit) is faring to the Ka‘ba at every moment, and through (Divine) bounty the body assumes the nature of the heart.

  • This longness and shortness appertains to the body: where God is, what is “long” and “short”?

  • When God has transmuted the body, He makes its faring to be without league or mile. 535

  • There are a hundred hopes at this (present) time. Step (forward), O youth, like a (true) lover and relinquish (idle) disputation.

  • Albeit thou art closing thine eyelids, thou art asleep in the ship and voyaging (in safety).

  • Exposition of the Hadíth, "The parable of my community is the parable of the Ship (Ark) of Noah: whoso shall cleave to it is saved, and whoso shall hold back from it is drowned."

  • On this account the Prophet said, “I am as the Ship (Ark) in the Flood of Time.

  • I and my Companions are as the Ship of Noah: whoso clings (to us) will gain (spiritual) graces.”

  • When you are with the Shaykh you are far removed from wickedness: day and night you are a traveller and in a ship. 540

  • You are under the protection of a life-giving spirit: you are asleep in the ship, you are going on the way.

  • Do not break with the prophet of your days: do not rely on your own skill and footsteps.

  • Lion though you are, you are self-conceited and in error and contemptible when you go on the way without a guide.

  • Beware! Do not fly but with the wings of the Shaykh, that you may see (receive) the aid of the armies of the Shaykh.

  • At one time the wave of his mercy is your pinion, at another moment the fire of his wrath is your carrier. 545

  • Do not reckon his wrath to be the contrary of his mercy: behold the oneness of both (these qualities) in the effect.