Thought is an intoxication, but its drink is mixed and its creation incomplete. Incompleteness comes only from mixture. This is the righteous ones’ drink and the wicked ones’ passing of the cup: “A spring from which God’s servants drink, making it gush abundantly” [al-Insan 76:6].
Their making it gush is the very mixture, for one who knows what I have said.
Had it flowed without being made to gush, through His being All-Powerful over everything, it would have been the drink of those brought near, coming from “Tasnim” [al-Mutaffifin 83:27] upon the righteous one favored with delight. Between one brought near and the righteous one lies the difference between eyes and traces.
Traces indicate, while the eye witnesses and does not weary.
The door has opened, the Bestower has bestowed, and the affair has been explained. Hidden affairs have appeared through the opening of breasts. Their meanings have expanded, while the Real has not been attained within them.
Hidden things have gleamed as veils were lifted: the creeds that have appeared within the world, within beliefs and religions. Look, and conceal.
Among this: whoever turns aside becomes sober, from Chapter 254.
None renounces his thought except one who has sobered from his intoxication. Not every drink intoxicates, nor is every saying denied. Not every mixture intoxicates, nor does every hearer deny.
Denial comes from narrow capacity: be intelligent and discerning. “
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Translator’s note: Fujjār, “wicked ones,” echoes the root of making water gush. In “the Real has not been attained within them,” mā is read negatively; a relative reading, “they are what the Real is attained within,” is also possible.
