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122 THE TARJUMAN AL-ASHWAQ (X X X V ll, X X X V lll)

C o m m e n t a r y
1. ‘ O my two comrades,’ i.e. his understanding and Ivis faith.
‘ Tlie guarded pasture,’ i.e. the veiled glory of God.
‘ Najd,’ i.e. sublime knowledge.
‘ Yonder sign,’ i.e. inductive knowledge.
2. ‘ A well,’ i.e. the .source of eternal life.
‘ At the tents of the curving sand,’ i.e. in the presence of
Piv’ine mercy.
‘ Beg shade,’ etc., i.e. seek deliglit in the knowledge that
bewilders the intellect and is exempt from all limitation.
3. ‘ The valley of Mina,’ i.e. the abodes of the Heavenly
Host and of the Divine Names assembled for the puipose of
manifestation.
4. ‘ Or only .say,’ etc., i.e. if they are not pleased to receive
my greetings, then make no mention of me.
6. ‘ Asking questions,’ i.e. touching the malady with which
he is smitten, viz. the obstacles that hinder him from attaining
to the object of his desire, notwith.standing that love has
intoxicated his whole being.

XXXVIII
1. The dearest place on God’s eai’tli to me after Tayba and
Mecca and the Farther Temple is the city of Baghdan.^
2. How should I not love the (City of) Peace, since I have
thei'e an Imam who is the guide of my I’eligion and
my reason and my faith ?
4. She greets and revives tho.se whom she killed with her
3. ’Tis the home of a daughter of Persia, one whose gestures
are subtle and whose eyelids are languid.

looks, and she conferred the best (gift) after beauty
and beneficence.

C o m m e n t a r y
1. ‘ Tayba ’ (Medina), i.e. the station of Yathrib from which
they return with utter failure to attain to true knowledge of
the most glorious God, as Abu Bakr said, ‘ perception is
’ Bagh<]uii is one of tlie .seven varioii.s sjKjllings of Baghdilcl.