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94 THE TARJU M AX AE-ASHW AQ ( X X lI l)

9 . Then, O ye who come to tlie waters of the avcII, and 0 j 'e
who iivhabit Wsidi ’I-'Aqfq,
10. And O thou who seekest iledina to vi.sit it, and O ye
who travel on this i-oad,
11 Look on us again with pity! for we were robbed, a little
after dawn, a little before sunri.se,
12. Of a bright-faced li.ssoine damsel sweet of breath, diflu.sing
a perfume like shredded musk,
13. Swaying drunkenly to and fro like the branches, fresh
a s r a w s ilk ,^ w h i c h t h e W iiid s h a v e b e n t ,
14. Shaking, like the hump of a stallion-camel, fear.some
hips huge as sand-hills.
15. No censor blamed me for loving her, and my friend did
not blame me for loving her.
16. If any censor had blamed me for loving her, my sobbing
would have been my answer to him.
17. My desire is my troop of camels and my grief is my
garment and my passion is my morning drink and my
tears are my evening drink.’

CO M M EXTARY
1; He describes pilgrims on the way to the Truth, travelling
in themselves through the night of their bodily existence and
stopping for rest at dawn, i.e. the boundary which divides
the wisdom appertaining to the Divine realities that is
deposited in the phenomenal world from the reahties of the
Spirits of Light, which are called allegorically the Heavenly
aspirations, to halt in the Wjidi ’l-‘Aqiq, where pilgrims put
The travellers cause their camels, i.c. their
Host
This is the station of
on the garb of pilgrimage
Muhammadan .sanctity (^jJOLsr*
2. ‘ A cairn,’ i.e. a guide, namely, the spirit.
‘ A mountain peak,’ i.e. the body.
^ Sir Charles Lynll Ims sufrgeslcd that . '6 .sliould l)o rendered ‘ red

popinea’, but the comincntary runs : a L i-ljo
(MS. aLjCJo )