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136 THE TAKJUMAN AL-ASHWAQ (XLVllI, XLIX)

10. ‘ Sal',’ one of tlie stations of Divine sanctity.
12. ‘ In his tears,’ i.e. in tlie knowledge that conies of
contemplation.
‘ Wine,’ i.e. every science that inspires joy and rapture in
the human soul, e.g. the .science of the Divine perfection.
‘ Tho.se well-set teeth,’’i.e. the grades of knowledge of God.
13. ‘ Those spacious eyebrows,’ i.e. the station between
the two Wazirs and Imams. He alludes to the station of
the Qutb.
XLIX
1. Who will show me her of the dyed fingers ? Who will
show me her of the honeyed tongue ?
2. She is one of the girls with swelling bi’easts who guard
their lionour, tender, virgin, and beautiful,
3. Full moons over branches : they fear no waning.
4. In a garden of my body’s countiy is a dove perched on a
hd'u bough,
5. Dying of desire, melting with passion, because that which
befell me hath befallen her;
6. Mourning for a mate, blaming Time, who shot her
unerringly, as he .shot me.
7. Parted from a neighbour and far from a home ! Alas, in
my time of severance, for my time of union !
8. Who ■will bring me her who is pleased witli my torment i
I am helpless because of that with which she is
pleased.
C o m m e n t a r y
power is hidden according to the doctrine of some schola.stic
‘ Her of the dyed fingers ’ : he means the phenomenal
1.
i.oijiJl) by which the Eternal power

theologians. He .Says, ‘ Who will impart to me the truth of
this matter, so far as knowledge thereof is possible ? ’ He
w'ishes to know wdiether God manifests Himself therein
(Jsr' Jjfc) or not. The author denies .such mani­
festation, but some mystics and the Mu'tazilites allow it,
while the Sufis among the Ash'arites leave the question
undecided.