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  • For this scent's sake Ahmad (Mohammed) constantly said in (his) exhortations: “In the ritual prayer is the delight of mine eye.” 3235
  • The five (spiritual) senses are linked with one another, all these five have grown (are derived) from a sublime root (source).
  • The strength of one becomes the strength of the rest: each one becomes a cupbearer to the rest.
  • Seeing with the eye increases love; love increases penetration in the eye.
  • Penetration (of sight) becomes the (means of) awakening (stimulating) every sense, (so that) perception (of the spiritual) becomes familiar to (all) the senses.
  • The beginning of the gnostic's illumination by the Light which sees the invisible world.
  • When one sense in (the course of its) progress has loosed (its) bonds, all the rest of the senses become changed. 3240
  • When one sense has perceived things that are not objects of sense-perception, that which is of the invisible world becomes apparent to all the senses.
  • When one sheep of the flock has jumped over a stream, then they all jump across on each other's heels.
  • Drive the sheep, thy senses, to pasture: let them browse on (the pasture indicated in the text)—He who hath brought forth the herbage,
  • That there they may browse on hyacinth and wild-rose; that they may make their way to the garden of the Realities;
  • (That) every sense of thine may become an apostle to the senses (of others), so that severally they may go towards that Paradise; 3245
  • (And then those) senses will tell their secret to thy senses, without the proper meaning, without tongue, and without metaphor;
  • For this proper meaning admits of (different) interpretations, and this guesswork is the source of (vain) imaginings;
  • (But in the case of) that truth which is (perceived) from intuition, there is no room for any interpretation.
  • When every sense has become subject to thy sense, the heavenly spheres cannot avoid (obedience to) thee.
  • When a dispute takes place as to the ownership of the husk, the husk belongs to him who possesses the kernel. 3250
  • When there happens to be a quarrel about a load of straw, observe who is the owner of the grain.
  • The heavenly sphere, then, is the husk, and the light of the spirit is the kernel. This (sky) is visible, that (spirit) is concealed; (but) do not stumble on this account.
  • The body is manifest, the (vital) spirit is concealed: the body is as the sleeve, the spirit as the hand.
  • Again, the intellect flies (moves) in a more occult manner than the (vital) spirit: (your mental) perception makes its way to (apprehends) the (vital) spirit sooner (than it apprehends the intellect).
  • (If) you see a movement, you know that he (who moves) is alive; (but) this you do not know, that he is full of intellect, 3255
  • Until regulated movements appear, and he by means of knowledge turns the motion of copper into gold.
  • From manual actions being conformable (to reason) you may perceive that there is intellect (behind them).
  • The spirit (that partakes) of Divine inspiration is more concealed than the intellect, because it is of the Unseen: it belongs to that side.
  • The intellect of Ahmad (Mohammed) was not hidden from any one; (but) his spirit of (prophetic) inspiration was not apprehended by every soul.
  • The spirit of prophecy also has actions conformable (to reason), (but) the intellect does not apprehend (them), for that (spirit) is exalted (above intellectual apprehension). 3260
  • Sometimes he (the man of intellect) regards (the actions of one endowed with the spirit) as madness, sometimes he is bewildered, since it (all) depends on his becoming that (other one);
  • As (for example) the intellect of Moses was troubled by seeing the reasonable actions of Khadir.
  • His actions seemed unreasonable to Moses, since he (Moses) had not his (Khadir's) state (of Divine inspiration).
  • Inasmuch as the intellect of Moses becomes tied up (perplexed and helpless) in (the matter of) the mysterious (inspiration), who (what) is the intellect of a (mere) mouse, O excellent (reader)?
  • Conventional knowledge is (only) for sale (self-advertisement): when it finds a purchaser, it glows with delight. 3265
  • The purchaser of real knowledge is God: its market is always splendid.
  • He (the owner of real knowledge) has closed his lips (and is) enraptured in (his) trading: the purchasers are without end, for God hath purchased.
  • The angels purchase Adam's teaching; the devils and Jinn are not privileged to receive it.
  • Adam, inform them of the Names, give (them) teaching, explain the mysteries of God, hair by hair.
  • Such a person as is short-sighted, plunged in variability and without steadfastness, 3270
  • I called a “mouse,” because his place is in the earth (of the body): earth is the place of living for the mouse.
  • He knows (many) ways, but (only) underground: he has pierced the earth in every direction.
  • The mouse-soul is naught but a nibbler: to the mouse is given a mind proportionate to its need,
  • Because without need the Almighty God does not give anything to any one.
  • If the earth had not been needed by the (inhabitants of the) world, the Lord of all beings would not have created any (earth); 3275
  • And if this quaking earth had not needed mountains, He would not have created them sublime (as they are);
  • And if there had not been need of the heavenly spheres also, He would not have created from non-existence the Seven Skies.
  • The sun and moon and these stars—how did they come plain into view except through need?
  • Need, then is the noose for (all) things that exsist: He (God) gives to Man instruments in proportion to his need.
  • Therefore quickly augment thy need, O needy one, in order that the Sea of Bounty may surge up in loving kindness. 3280
  • These beggars (are) on the (public) road, and every sufferer (among them) is displaying his need to the people—
  • Blindness and palsy and sickness and pain—that men's pity may be aroused by this need.
  • Does he (any one) ever say, “Give bread, O people, for I have riches and granaries and trays (of viands)?”
  • God has not put eyes in the mole, because it does not need eyes for (getting) food.