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THE TAliJUMAN AL-ASHWAQ (X X V IH ) 1 0 5

13. There are tho.se whom I love, beside the waters of
al-Ajra‘—
' 14. And call to them, ‘ Who will help a youth burning with
desire, one dismissed,
15. Who.se sorrows have thrown him into a bewilderment
which is the last remnant of ruin ?
16. O moon beneath a darkness, take from him .somethiupf
and leave something.
I f . And bestow on him a glance from behind yonder %'eil,
18. Because he is too weak fo apprehend the terrible beauty,
J 9. Or flatter him with hope.s, that perchance he maj’^be

revived or may understand.
20. He is a dead man between al-Naqd and La‘la‘.’
21. For I am dead of despair and anguish, as though I were
fixed in my place.
22. The East Wind did not tell the truth when it brought
cheating phantoms.
23. Sometimes the wind deceives when it causes thee to hear
what is not (really) heard.

C0M.ME.\TA}{Y
1. ‘ Between al-Naqd and La‘la‘,’ etc., i.e. between the
hill of white musk, on which is the vision of God, and the
place of frenzied love for Him, are diverse sorts of knowledge
connected with the stations of abstraction
2. ‘ In a dense covert of tangled shrubs,’ i.e. the world of
phenomenal admixture and interdependence.
pa.ss away in himself from himself, and that his essence
3. ‘ New moons,^ i.e. Divine manifestations.
4. ‘ From fear,’ i.e. from fear that the beholder might

might perish, whereas his object is to continue subsisteiit
through God and for God; or frojn fear that he should
imagine the manifestation to be according to the essential
nature of God in Himself (which is impossible), and not
according to the nature of the recipient. The former belief,
which involves the comprehension (aLIs^I) of God l>y the
person to whom the manifestation is made, agrees with the