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2071-2095

  • How should the bletherings of a devil like you turn me back from the dust of this abode?
  • I have not (been impelled to) come by a wind (of vain desire) like a cloud, that I should be turned back from this (holy) presence by a dust (of foolish words).
  • By virtue of that Light the calf becomes a qibla of (Divine) grace; without that Light the qibla becomes (a symbol of) infidelity and an idol.
  • The licence that comes from self-will is error; the licence that comes from God is perfection.
  • In that quarter where the illimitable Light has shone, infidelity has become faith and the Devil has attained unto Islam. 2075
  • He (the saint) is a theatre for the manifestation of the (Divine) Glory, and he is the real beloved (of God): he has carried off the prize from (taken precedence over) all the Cherubim.
  • The worship of Adam (by the angels) is clear evidence of his superiority: the husk always bows down (pays homage) to the kernel.
  • O old woman, (if) you puff (try to put out) God's candle, you will be burnt, you and your head at the same time, O foul-mouthed one.
  • How should the sea be defiled by a dog's muzzle? How should the sun be extinguished by a puff?
  • Even if you judge (only) by appearances, tell (me), what is more apparent than this Light? 2080
  • In comparison with this appearance all apparent things are in the utmost degree of imperfection and default.
  • If any one puff at God's candle, how should the candle be extinguished? His jaws and nose will be burnt.
  • Bats like you often dream that this world will be left orphaned (deprived) of the Sun.
  • The fierce waves of the seas of the Spirit are a hundred times as many as was (the multitude of waves in) the Flood of Noah;
  • But hair grew (and formed an obstruction) in the eye of Canaan: he forsook Noah and the Ark and sought the mountain. 2085
  • Then half a wave swept the mountain and Canaan down into the abyss of dishonour.
  • The moon scatters her light and the dog bays: how should the dog feed on the light of the moon?
  • Those who travel by night and move swiftly with the moon on her way, how should they relinquish their journey because of the dog's yelping?
  • The part is speeding like an arrow towards the Whole: how should it stop on account of any old hag?
  • The gnostic is the soul of religion and the soul of piety: gnosis is the result of past asceticism. 2090
  • Asceticism is the labour of sowing; gnosis is the growth of the seed.
  • Therefore the (ascetic's) hard struggle and his firm religious conviction are like the body, (while) the soul of this sowing is the growth (of the seed) and its harvesting.
  • He (the gnostic) is both the command to do right and the right (itself); he is both the revealer of mysteries and that which is revealed.
  • He is our king to-day and to-morrow: the husk is for ever a slave to his goodly kernel,
  • When the Shaykh (Halláj) said ‘I am God’ and carried it through (to the end), he throttled (vanquished) all the blind (sceptics). 2095