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1771-1820

  • If the ruby have not a seal (graven on it), ’tis no harm: Love in the sea of sorrow is not sorrowful.
  • How the (Divine) revelation came to Moses, on whom be peace, excusing that shepherd.
  • After that, God spake secretly in the inmost heart of Moses mysteries which cannot be spoken.
  • Words were poured upon his heart: vision and speech were mingled together.
  • How oft did he become beside himself and how oft return to himself! How oft did he fly from eternity to everlastingness!
  • If I should unfold (his tale) after this, ’tis foolishness (in me), because the explanation of this is beyond (our) understanding; 1775
  • And if I should speak (thereof), ’twould root up (men's) minds; and if I should write (thereof), ’twould shatter many pens.
  • When Moses heard these reproaches from God, he ran into the desert in quest of the shepherd.
  • He pushed on over the footprints of the bewildered man, he scattered dust from the skirt of the desert.
  • The footstep of a man distraught is, in truth, distinct from the footsteps of others:
  • (At) one step, (he moves) like the rook (straight) from top to bottom (of the chessboard); (at) one step he goes crossways, like the bishop; 1780
  • Now lifting his crest like a wave; now going on his belly like a fish;
  • Now writing (a description of) his state on some dust, like a geomancer who takes an omen by drawing lines (on earth or sand).
  • At last he (Moses) overtook and beheld him; the giver of glad news said, “Permission has come (from God).
  • Do not seek any rules or method (of worship); say whatsoever your distressful heart desires.
  • Your blasphemy is (the true) religion, and your religion is the light of the spirit: you are saved, and through you a (whole) world is in salvation. 1785
  • O you who are made secure by God doeth whatso He willeth, go, loose your tongue without regard (for what you say).”
  • He said, “O Moses, I have passed beyond that: I am now bathed in (my) heart's blood.
  • I have passed beyond the Lote-tree of the farthest bourn, I have gone a hundred thousand years' journey on the other side.
  • Thou didst ply the lash, and my horse shied, made a bound, and passed beyond the sky.
  • May the Divine Nature be intimate with my human nature— blessings be on thy hand and on thine arm! 1790
  • Now my state is beyond telling: this which I am telling is not my (real) state.”
  • You behold the image which is in a mirror: it is your (own) image, it is not the image of the mirror.
  • The breath which the flute-player puts into the flute—does it belong to the flute? No, it belongs to the man (the flute-player).
  • Take good heed! Whether you speak praise (of God) or thanksgiving, know that it is even as the unseemly (words) of that shepherd.
  • Though your praise is better in comparison with that, yet in relation to God it too is maimed (feeble). 1795
  • How often will you say, when the lid has been raised, “This was not what they were thinking (it was)!”
  • This acceptance (by God) of your praise is from (His) mercy: it is an indulgence (which He grants), like (the indulgence granted in the case of) the prayers of a woman suffering from menorrhagia.
  • Her prayers are stained with blood; your praise is stained with assimilation and qualification.
  • Blood is foul, and (yet) it goes (is washed away) by a (little) water; but the inward part (the inner man) hath impurities
  • Which fail not (are not removed) from the interior (the heart) of the man of works except by the water of the grace of the Maker. 1800
  • Would that in your bowing low in prayer you would turn your face (to attentive consideration) and apprehend the meaning of “Glory to my Lord!”
  • Saying, “Oh, my prostration (in prayer), like my existence, is unworthy (of Thee): do Thou give good in return for evil!”
  • This earth has the mark of God's clemency, in that it got filth and gave flowers as the produce;
  • In that it covers our pollutions, (and that) buds grow up from it in exchange.
  • Therefore, when the infidel saw that in giving and lavishing he was meaner and unwealthier than the earth, 1805
  • (That) flowers and fruit did not grow from his being, (and that) he sought (and achieved) nothing but the corruption of all purities,
  • He said, “I have gone backwards in (my) course. Alas! would that I had (still) been earth!
  • Would that I had not chosen to travel away from earthiness, (and that) like a clod of earth I had gathered some grain!
  • When I travelled, the Way tried me: what was the present I brought (home) from this travelling?”
  • ’Tis from all that propensity of his towards earth that he sees before him no profit in the journey. 1810
  • His turning his face back is that greed and cupidity (of his); his turning his face to the Way is sincerity and supplication.
  • Every herb that has a propensity for (moving) upwards is in (the state of) increase and life and growth;
  • When it has turned its head towards the earth, (it is) in (the state of) decrease and dryness and failure and disappointment.
  • When the propensity of your spirit is upwards, (you are) in (the state of) increase, and that (lofty) place is the place to which you will return;
  • But if you are upside down, (with) your head towards the earth, (then) you are one that sinks: God loves not them that sink. 1815
  • How Moses, on whom be peace, asked the high God (to explain) the secret of the predominance of the unjust.
  • Moses said, “O Bounteous Disposer, O Thou whom to commemorate for one moment is (worth) a long life,
  • I have seen the crooked, misshapen image in (the mould of) water and clay, and like the angels, my heart has raised an objection,
  • As to what is the purpose of making an image and casting therein the seed of corruption.
  • To kindle the fire of iniquity and corruption; to burn the mosque and those who bend low in prayer;
  • To set boiling the source of bloody tears for the sake of (receiving) humble entreaties (from the suffering and oppressed)— 1820