so Abu Yazid said, “He used to see God according to his own measure. When he beheld us, the Real disclosed Himself to him according to our measure. He could not bear it, and died.”
(Muhammadan Seeing)
Since the affair is thus, we knew that our seeing God in the Muhammadan form through Muhammadan seeing is the most complete seeing there can be. We have therefore continued urging people toward it, both orally and in this book of ours. “God speaks the truth, and He guides upon the way” [al-Ahzab 33:4].
Chapter Five Hundred and Forty-One: On Knowing the State of a Pole Whose Abode Was “Whoever among You Does Wrong, We Shall Make Him Taste a Great Torment” [al-Furqan 25:19]
God’s support for the wrongdoer’s soul
is support that no one abandons.
When he wrongs another, His is
the judgment He wills, with a decisive ruling.
God’s rights have prior claim; likewise,
for the intelligent, my soul’s right comes next.
Then comes another’s right in its rank,
last, for the knowing, virtuous one.
Notlar
Translator’s note: These lines take al-ghayr as the object, “another,” and attach lahu to the following ḥukm, “His is the judgment,” referring here to God. The unvocalized wording also permits “When another wrongs him, he judges…”; the pronoun’s referent is not certain.
