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5. ‘ TJie sautls of tlie guarded pjisfciire,’ referring to tlie
endurance of anguish caused by seiianxtion in
a station remote from jjhenomenal being and inaccessible.
‘ Qubf'i/ i.e. the station of repose, for the Projjhet used to
aliglit tliere every Sabbath.
G. ‘ The camels,’ i.e. the aspirations on which our hearts ride.
7. ‘ ’Twas only a frenzy of love,’ etc., i.e. my preoccupation
with love for Him veiled me from Himself.
13-14. The East wind bestows on him the knowledge of
‘ God created Adam after His own image ’, the South wind
bestows on him the knowledge of the companions of the
light hand Kor. Ivi, 89), and the North wind
bestows on him the knowledge of the favourites of God
Kor. Ivi, 87), which is the station between‘prophecy
and saintship and is attained only by the nonpareils (jl^)!!),
of whom al-Khaclir is one, as the Koran bears witness.
Abu Hamid (al-Ghazali) denies the existence of this station,
becai^se he never reached or knew it, and he imagines that
those Saints who advance beyond the rank of the siddlqs
have fallen into prophecy and have acted irreverently, but
such is not the case. The station to which I refer lies between
the position of the ^iddlq and that of the Prophet. It is
indicated by the mystery which made an impression on the
heart of the gi‘eate.st siddlq, Abii Bakr {rJ I cl ^__s jJl 1

1C. When the lover passes away from his own de.sire,
desire of his Beloved.
every evil becomes good to him, because it is the will and

18. ‘ Its lightning gives a false promise of rain’ : a
manife.station of the Essence produces nothing in the heart,
inasmuch as it cannot be apprehended or confined by any
phenomenal object. In this re.spect it differs from the
manifestation in forms in the world of similitudes, for the
S(!cr apj)rehends the forzu of that which is manifested to him
and interprets it.
19. ‘ On the sleeve of the cloud,’ refei'ring to Kor. ii, 206.