for I love agreement and not standing alone in anything apart from my companions. “God speaks the truth, and He guides the way” [al-Ahzab 33:4].
Chapter Two Hundred and Ninety-Eight: On Gnosis of the Abode of Remembrance from the Upper World in the Muhammadan Presence
The flowers of gnosis are from the flowers of disciplines,
and your garden’s flowers from the heavens’ flowers.
Bodies possess sciences not resembled
by the knowledge of selves, because of causes and afflictions.
The realities of the Real: their apprehensions are not hidden,
for their apprehension belongs to the Essence through the Essence.
What is other than these is apprehended through an intermediary,
through what one sees of landmarks and signs.
The great ones’ jest is earnest through witnessing;
within its folds for them lies the ruse of charismatic gifts.
Their respite is not neglect, for they know
that this is bound to times.
