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  • The body of Ahmad was liable to that (corruption): know that this corruption belongs (only) to the body,
  • Such as sickness and sleep and pain; the spirit is untouched by these affections and wholly detached (from them).
  • Indeed I cannot describe the spirit, and if I describe it, quaking would fall upon this (world of) phenomenal existence and spatiality.
  • If its fox (the body) was perturbed for a moment, belike the lion-spirit was then asleep.
  • That lion which is immune from sleep was (apparently) asleep: lo, a complaisant terrible lion! 3795
  • The lion feigns to be asleep so (well) that those curs think he is quite dead;
  • Else, who in the world would dare to rob a poor man (even) of a grain of turpeth mineral?
  • The foam (body) of Ahmad was torn (powerfully affected) by that sight (of Gabriel), (but) his sea (spirit) surged up (displayed itself in action) for love of the foam.
  • The moon (the spirit of Ahmad) is entirely a bounteous light-diffusing hand: if the moon have no hand (with which to bestow light), let it have none!
  • If Ahmad should display that glorious pinion (his spiritual nature), Gabriel would remain dumbfounded unto everlasting. 3800
  • When Ahmad passed beyond the Lote-tree (on the boundary of Paradise) and his (Gabriel's) place of watch and station and farthest limit,
  • He said to him (Gabriel), “Hark, fly after me.” He (Gabriel) said, “Go, go; I am not thy companion (any farther).”
  • He answered him, saying, “Come, O destroyer of veils: I have not yet advanced to my zenith.”
  • He replied, “O my illustrious friend, if I take one flight beyond this limit, my wings will be consumed.”
  • This tale of the elect losing their senses in (contemplation of) the most elect is (naught but) amazement on amazement. 3805
  • Here all (other) unconsciousnesses are (a mere) play. How long will you keep possession of your soul? for it is (a case of) abandoning your soul.
  • O “Gabriel,” though you are noble and revered, you are not the moth nor the candle either.
  • When the candle calls at the moment of illumination, the soul of the moth does not shrink from burning.
  • Bury this topsy-turvy discourse: make the lion contrariously the prey of the onager.
  • Stop up thy word-sweating water-skin, do not open the bag of thy reckless talk. 3810
  • He whose (intellectual and spiritual) parts have not passed beyond the earth— this is absurd and reckless talk in his view.
  • Do not resist them, O my beloved; deal gently with them, O stranger lodging in their home.
  • Give (them) what they wish and desire, and satisfy them, O emigrant dwelling in their land.
  • Till (the hour of) coming to the king and to sweet delight, O man of Rayy be on good terms with the man of Merv.
  • O “Moses,” in presence of the Pharaoh of the time you must speak softly with mild words. 3815
  • If you put water into boiling oil, you will destroy (both) the trivet and the kettle.
  • Speak softly, but do not speak aught except the truth: do not offer temptation in your mildness of address.
  • The time of afternoon is come: cut short the discourse, O thou whose expression (of the hidden truth) makes (the people of) the age acquainted (with reality).
  • Do thou tell the clay-eater that sugar is better: do not show injurious softness, do not give him clay.
  • Speech would be a spiritual garden to the soul, if it were independent of letters and sounds. 3820
  • Oh, there is many a one in whom this donkey's head amidst the sugar plantation has fixed a thorn!
  • He, (seeing it) from afar, supposed that it (the sugar-plantation) is just that (donkey's head), nothing more; (so) he was retiring, like a ram vanquished in fight.
  • Know for sure that the (literal) form (of speech) is (like) that donkey's head in the vineyard and highest Paradise of the spiritual reality.
  • O Ziyá’u ’l-Haqq Husámu’ddín, bring this donkey's head into that melon-field,
  • In order that, when the donkey's head has died to (has passed beyond) the skinning-place, that kitchen may bestow on it another growth (a spiritual regeneration). 3825
  • Hark, the shaping (of the poem) is from me, and the spirit (of it) from thee; nay, (I spoke) in error: truly both this and that are from thee.
  • Thou art glorified in Heaven, O conspicuous Sun: be thou also glorified on earth unto everlasting,
  • That the inhabitant of the earth may become one in heart and one in aim and one in nature with the sublime celestial.
  • (Then) separation and polytheism and duality will disappear: in real existence there is (only) unity.
  • When my spirit (fully) recognises thy spirit, they (both) remember their being one in the past, 3830
  • And on the earth become (as) Moses and Aaron, sweetly mingled like milk and honey.
  • When it (my spirit) recognises (thy spirit) a little and (then) denies (it), its denial becomes a veil covering (the truth).
  • Many a one who recognised (part of the truth) averted his face: that Moon was angered by his ingratitude.
  • Hence the evil spirit became unable to recognise the spirit of the Prophet and turned on its heel.
  • You have read all this: read (the Súra beginning with the words) Lam yakun, that you may know the obstinacy of that old infidel. 3835
  • Ere the (bodily) form of Ahmad (Mohammed) displayed its glory, the description of him (in the Pentateuch and the Gospel) was a phylactery for every infidel.
  • “There is some one like this” (they said): “(let us wait) till he shall appear”; and their hearts were throbbing at the imagination of (seeing) his face.
  • They were prostrating themselves (in prayer), crying, “O Lord of mankind, wilt Thou bring him before our eyes as quickly as may be?”
  • (This they did) in order that, by asking (God) to grant them victory in the name of Ahmad, their enemies might be overthrown.
  • Whenever a formidable war arose, Ahmad's pertinacity in onset was always their succour; 3840