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THE TAIUUMAX AE-ASmVAQ (X L IX -L l) 13/
4. ‘ A dove,’ etc., i.e. a spiritual Prophetic essence wliicli
appeared in the inconnnunicable self-subsistence. He refers
to the belief of some Siifis that Man cannot be invested with
the Divine Self-subsistence (Uj ^
5. 'D^diif^ of desiic,’ etc., with reference to Ivor, iii, 20,
‘ Folhnv me, that God viaij love y o u ’ and Kor. v, 59, ‘ He
lores them and they love Him.’
6. ' A mate,’ i.e. the Universal Form (Xv»
‘ Blaming Time,’ because the forms belonging to the world
of similitude are limited by Time in that world.
7. ‘ A neighbour,’ i.e. a gnostic who became veiled from hi.s
Lord by his ‘ self ’ after having suKsisted by his Lord and for
the sake of his Lord.
‘ A home,’ i.e. his natural constitution, whenever he returns
to it.
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1. Oh, the traitress! She has left bitten by her viper-like
locks one who would fain approach her,
2. And she bends her soft eye and melts him and leaves him
sick on his bed.
3. She shot the arrows of her glances from the bow of an
eyebrow, and on whatever side I came I was killed.

CoMMENTAKV
1. ‘ The traitress,’ i.e. a deceitful Attribute, which caused
one who sought her to become enamoured of the mj’sterious
sciences derived from the Divine majesty and beauty.
plation of the Divine Ideas.
2. ‘ His bed,’ i.e. his body.
3. He describes the ‘ passing away ’ produced by contem­

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1. At Dlult al-Adfi and al-Ma’ziimln and Baric] and Dhu Salam
and al-Abraqan to the tnlveller by night
2. Appear flashes of swords from the lightnings of smiling
mouths like musk-glands, the odour whereof none is
permitted to smell.