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THE TAUJUMAN AL-ASHWAQ ( l l , III) 53

T1 le Arabs refer to this in tlieir poetry, for they speak of
greetings and news to be delivered by the winds
wlien they blow.
12. ‘ !\Iay God preserve us from her evil! ’ He refers to
the Tradition ‘ I take refuge with Tliee from Thj^self ’.
‘ The victorioirs kiuor,’ i.e. thoughts of knowledge and
Divine guidance.
‘ Ibli's,’ i.e. tlie thought of becoming one Uith God (jls:?!),
’
for this is a liard station, and few wlio attain to it escape
from the doctrines of t,'\a^l*iand incarnation It is
the station indicated in the Tradition ‘ I am his ear and his
eye ’, etc.
13. He saj's, ‘ When this .spiritual essence desired to quit
this noble lieart on account of its (the heart’s) return from
the station denoted by the words, “ I have an hour which
I share with none save my Loi’d,” to the task imposed upon it
of presiding over the phenomenal Avorlds, for which purpose
its gaze is directed towards the Divine Names, the lofty
aspiration (<f^#j>) on which this spiritual essence was borne
to the heart, took its departure.’ He calls this aspiration
‘ lier she-camel and the drivers of such aspirations are the
angels who approach nearest to God

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1. O mj' two friends, pass by al-Kathib and turn towar-ds
La‘la‘ and seek the waters of Yalamlam,
3. Never let me forget at al-Muhassab of Mina and at
2. For there dwell those whom thou knowest and those to
whom belong my fasting and my pilgrimage and my
visit to the holy places and my festival.

al-Manhar al-A'ld and Zamzam certain grave matters.
4. Their Muhassab is my heart, because of their casting the
pebbles, and their place of sacrifice is my soul, and
their well is my blood.
6. 0 camel-driver, if thou comest to Iliijir, stop the beasts
a little wliile and give a greeting.