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THE TAKJUJUN AL-ASHWAQ (XXXII, X X X Ill) • 119
inj^ kindling fire for tliem by rubbing tlie ‘afar and
the markh together.’ ^

C o m m e n ta r y
1-3. He sa^'^s : ‘ Our prai.se of God J), telling of the
Divine Revelation, recalls to me the time of pilgrimage in
the .station where the veils were rent and lifted from me
by acts of devotion that produced spiritual feelings and
a.spiiations of which I wa^ unconscious, and brings me back
from my present state of acting in unveileduess and without
being conscious of consciousness to the fomier state of acting
in which I was veiled.’
4. ‘ My kindling fire,’ etc., i.e. the things generated by
veiled sccondaiy causes whereby the reality is doubly
di.sguised.

XXXIII
1. I re.spond with diverse notes of grief to every cooing dove
perched upon a bough in a grove.
2. She weeps for her mate without tears, but from my
eyelids the tears of sorrow are streaming.
3. I say to her, when my eyelids have shed their abundant
tears in token of my inward state,
4. ‘ Hast thou any knowledge of those whom I love, and
did they rest at midday in the shadows of the
branches ?’
appear in forms of the intermediate world.
C o m m e n ta r y
1. ‘ Every cooing dove,’ i.e. subtle spiritual essences which

2. ‘ From my eyelids,’ etc.: because of my bodily existence.
4. ‘ Did they rest,’ etc., i.e. did they show themselves
in tl\e shades of this natural organism, so that I may .seek
them there ?

* ‘Afdr and niarhh are the names of trees whose woo(i was u.sed /or
tlii.s purpose.