He appointed me no house but Himself: in Him I dwell, and through Him I alight. He conceals me from His creation through His He-ness: He is the Outward, while I am hidden in His shelter.
When He hears through an instrument or through relations, He hears through me and likewise sees through me, just as I hear and see through Him. He is within me through supererogatory acts[15], for He is the root and I am the additional thing, since the outward of the form is my entity.
I am within Him through obligatory acts, so through me He hears and through me He sees.
Whoever is the Real’s hearing, the Real is the hearer;
whoever is the Real’s eye, the Real is the beholder.
The turning differs while the entity is one.
Every servant perseveres toward the like of this.
Chapter Four Hundred and Seventeen: On Knowing the Mutual Encounter of the One Whose Recompense Is upon God
The recompense of messengership is established,
but rests upon God, who employs him.
This is the justice through which have stood
the entities of a created realm that has always entailed it.
Notlar
[15]
(The previous version read “He is in, through supererogatory acts.” It was corrected to “He is within me through supererogatory acts” by comparison with the new edition, volume 10, page 198.)
Translator’s note: The compressed opening can also be construed as “no house except one in which He is.” The main reading follows the preceding reciprocal imagery of the houses.
