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C2 THE TARJUMAX AL-A.SmVAQ (VIl)

above-mentioned angels wlio go round the Throne have no
relationship except ■with pilgrims circumambulating the Ka'ba.
5. ‘ Beauty robs him who hath modesty,’ since the vision
of Beauty enraptui-es whosoever beholds it.
‘ The robber of virtues,’ i.e. it takes away all delight in the
vision of beauty from him who acts at the bidding of the
possessor of this beauty; and sometimes the beauteous one
bids thee do that which stands between thee and glorious
things, inasmuch as those things are gained by means 6f
hateful actions: the Tradition' declares that Paradise is
encompassed by things which thou dislikest
6. ‘ At Zamzam,’ i.e. in the station of the life which thou
yearnest for.
‘ Beside the midmost tent,’ i.e. the intermediate world
which divides the spiritual from the corporeal
world.
‘ Beside the rocks,’ i.e. the sensible bodies in which the
holy spiritual beings (ajLojJin take their abode. He
means that these spirits in these imaginary forms are
metaphorical and transient, for they vanish fi’om the dreamer
as soon as he wakes and from the seer as soon as he returns
to his senses. He warns thee not to be deceived by the
manifestations of phenomenal beauty, inasmuch as all save
God is unreal, i.e. not-being like unto thyself; therefore be
His that He may be thine.
7. In the intermediate world who.soever loves these
delight is double. ^Jlc)
spiritual beings dwelling in sensible bodies derives refresh­
ment from the world of breaths and scents
because the spirit and the form are there united, so that the

8. When these phantoms are afraid that their absoluteness
will be limited by their confinement in forms, they cause
thee to perceive that they are a veil which hides something
more subtle than what thou seest, and conceal theimselves
from thee and quit these forms and once more enjoy infinite
freedom.