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l)ut tile Maglii’ib, and the opposite of Yemen itself is not
‘Inlq, but Syria. Tlie antithesis here is between tlie qualities
of tlie Beloved and those of tlie lover.
19. ‘ Two opposite.s,’ referring to the story of Junayd,
when a man .sneezed in his presence and .said, ‘ God he
'praised!' (Kor. i, 1). Junayd .said, completing the verse,
‘ Who is the Lord of created heinys.’ The man replied, ‘ And
who is the created being, that he .should be mentioned in the
same breath with God V ‘ 0 my brother,’ said Junayd, ‘ the
phenomenal, when it is joined fd the Eternal, vanishes and
leaves no trace behind. When He is tliere, thou art not, and
if thou art there. He is not.’
22. ‘ Yemen and ‘Iraq,’ etc., i.e. the identification (jW*!) of
the qualities of Wrath and IMercy. He refers to the saying
of Abu Sii'id al-Kharraz, who on being asked how lie knew
God, answered, ‘ By His uniting two opposite.s, for He is the
First and the Last and the Ouhuard and the Inw ard’
(Kor. Ivii, 3).
2J. ‘ The Pleiades,’ i.e. the seven attributes demon.strated
by .scholastic philo.sophers.
‘ Suhayl,’ i.e. the Divine Essence.
25. ‘ In the north,’ i.e. in the world of phenomena. The
Divine attributes are manifested in Creation, but the Divine
Essence docs not enter into Creation.

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2. And let a little of thy shades o’ci’shadow her for a .short
1. 0 garden of the valley, answer the lady of the preserve
and her who hath shining front-teeth, O garden of
the valley!

time until she be .settled in the meeting-place.
3. And her tents be pitched in thy midst. Then thou wilt
have as much as thou wishest of dew to feed the
tender shoots,
■i. And as much as thou wishest of showers and the moisture
of clouds passing over her ban trees at eve and morn,