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THE TARJUMAX AE-ASHWAQ (ll) 51

for the projDhets are masters of their spiritual
feelings whereas most of the saints are mastered by
them. The sun is joined to Idris because the sun is his
sphere, aftd the Divine wisdom is described as ‘ walking ’
(instead of ‘ running’, etc.) because of her pride and haughti­
ness, and because she moves in the feelings of this heart and
changes from one feeling to another with a sort of absolute
power
4. ‘ She kills with her ghences ’ : referring to the station
of passing away in contemplation J ^LsM). ‘ Her
speech restores to life ’ : referring to the completion of the
moulding of man Avhen the spirit was breathed into him.
She is compared to Jesus in reference to Kor. xxxviii, 72,
‘And I breathed into him of My spirit,’ or Kor. xvi, 42,
‘ That We say to it “ Be ”, and it is.'
5. ‘ Her legs ’ referi’ing to Bilqis and the glass pavement
(Kor. xxvii, 44).
‘ Is like the Tora in brightness,’ because the Tora (Si
is derived from the phrase j^^l ‘ the stick produced
fire.’ The four faces of the Tora, namely, the four
Books (the Koran, the Psalms, the Pentateuch, and the
Gospel), correspond to the fourfold light mentioned in
Kor. xxiv, 35
6. ‘ One of the daughtex'S of Rome ’ : this wisdom, being
of the race of Jesus (jii.s:iJl ‘ Unadorned,’ i.e. she is of the
is described as belonging
essence of unification (ji^ ^ ll) and without any vestige of
to the Roman Empire.

adox’nment from the Divine Names, yet there shines fi'om
her the ‘ radiance ’ of Absolute Goodness, viz. the burning
splendours (ii. ^ 1 (juUaA!!) which, if God .were to i-emove
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the veils of light and darkness, would consume the glories of
His face ( aj> .
7. ‘ Wild is .she, none can make her his friend,’ because
contemplation of the Essence is a passing a^vay (’ Li), in