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501 4, 9 | Husamu-'d-Din.~O light of God, Husamu-'d-Din, admit~This
502 5, 1 | would purge the offence, for God says, "Little let them laugh,
503 5, 1 | weep;" 3 and again, "Lend God a liberal loan;" 4 and again, "
504 5, 1 | liberal loan;" 4 and again, "God only desireth to put away
505 5, 1 | him to bear witness that God was the Lord, even as was
506 5, 1 | and alms) are rejected in God's court;~If the hunter scatters
507 5, 1 | liberal;~Yet the grace of God, despite this fraud,~May
508 5, 1 | possessed by the full moon.~God may purge his dealings from
509 5, 1 | that the pardoning grace of God may be seen,~God pardons
510 5, 1 | grace of God may be seen,~God pardons all sins that need
511 5, 1 | that need pardon.~Wherefore God rains down water from the
512 5, 1 | substance on the touchstone of God's command,~Saying, "My faith
513 5 (7) | Islam is the baptism of God" (Koran ii. 132). ~
514 5, 1 | pieces by night.~How can God listen to such contradictory
515 5, 1 | spiritual enlightenment.~O God, who hast no peer, bestow
516 5, 1 | Not-being is more blessed. 11~God made reason a reader of
517 5 (13)| The "Indelible Tablet" (of God's decrees) is here applied
518 5 (13)| Logos-the channel through whom God renews the "world of creation"
519 5, 1 | recognize the mercies of God and the wrath of God; but
520 5, 1 | of God and the wrath of God; but God's mercies are often
521 5, 1 | and the wrath of God; but God's mercies are often hidden
522 5, 2 | men, as already explained, God fills the world with deceptions, 2
523 5, 2 | hand, if men try to deceive God, they fail signally. Hypocritical
524 5, 2 | brethren is at once detected by God. Thus a certain Arab had
525 5 (2) | them who devise stratagems, God is beast" (Koran iii. 47). ~
526 5, 3 | bravery against the dead.~God says, "Expend;" 4 wherefore
527 5, 3 | absorbed in the eternity of God, as the light of the stars
528 5, 3 | noonday sun. Everything but God is at once preyed on by
529 5, 3 | long life, not to serve God, but to satisfy their own
530 5, 3 | to mankind. 9~Prayers to God to change our base inclinations
531 5, 3 | ever being changed, and God's elixir~Joins the body'
532 5, 3 | remained not~In lien thereof God gave you a better existence~
533 5, 3 | bewilderment that leads you to God's presence.~You have obtained
534 5, 3 | and live anew!~In view of God's changes cast away your
535 5, 4 | saying of the Prophet, "God regards not your outward
536 5, 4 | the poor Sunni the man of God, despised and rejected of
537 5, 4 | of men, and the king is God Almighty, who seeks a true
538 5, 4 | catch human game withal."~God gave him gold and silver
539 5, 4 | like a bitter orange.~Then God offered gold and jewels
540 5, 4 | more, O blessed Defender."~God gave him succulent and sweet
541 5, 4 | bonds asunder."~When at last God showed him the beauty of
542 5, 5 | become more opposed to them. God said, "What thinkest thou
543 5, 5 | holdeth back a servant of God when he prayeth? " 2~The
544 5, 5 | wealth, yet the inspiration God teaches me is surely as
545 5, 5 | which He taught the bees. 3 God taught them to make wax
546 5, 5 | be accounted an enemy to God and man."~The Prophet's
547 5, 5 | their love as well.~'Tis God alone who agitates these
548 5, 6 | trainer behind the mirror. So God uses prophets and saints
549 5, 6 | Reason" or the "Word of God" behind the mirrors of the
550 5, 6 | Ha, Mim, by the grace of God.~Its outward form resembles
551 5, 6 | his own, but proceed from God.~Whereas fools look only
552 5, 6 | recognition of his piety God blessed his garden and made
553 5, 6 | the divine bounty, because God's ability to bestow bounties,
554 5, 7 | created would rebel against God and draw down God's curse
555 5, 7 | against God and draw down God's curse upon her, remonstrated
556 5, 7 | the handful of earth. Then God deputed Michael on the same
557 5, 7 | to Him to avert." 3 Then God sent the angel Israfil on
558 5, 7 | divine intimation. At last God sent 'Izrail, the angel
559 5, 7 | him with the argument that God's command to bear away a
560 5, 7 | moral is, that when any of God's creatures do us a harm,
561 5, 7 | them only as instruments of God, who is the Only Real Agent.~
562 5, 7 | is the Only Real Agent.~God the Only Real Agent.~Do
563 5, 7 | with the handful of earth, God said he would make him the
564 5, 7 | very hateful to men; but God said 'Izrail would operate
565 5, 7 | death!"~Death is gain, for "God will change their evil things
566 5, 7 | really death to be life.~O God, show us all things in this
567 5, 7 | of the last trump will be God's command~To every atom
568 5, 7 | right hands and left. 7~God will place in their hands
569 5, 7 | enumerates his sins and faults,~God at last will grant him pardon
570 5, 8 | see those who have lied of God with their faces black." 4
571 5, 8 | description of genuine union with God.~A loved one said to her
572 5, 8 | followed by the curse of God;~Mansur's "I" was followed
573 5, 8 | followed by the mercy of God, O beloved!~Because Pharaoh
574 5, 9 | the earth, they will say 'God;' yet they devise lies." 1
575 5, 9 | sin, but prayed, saying, "God give thee repentance of
576 5, 9 | such an one are the same as God's own will, according to
577 5, 9 | his fear he called upon God for deliverance, and swooned
578 5, 9 | he might fall again, and God might "make easy to him
579 5, 10 | presented itself, because God says, "Go in quest of the
580 5, 10 | quest of the bounties of God." 1 He added, if the ass
581 5, 10 | pious man who trusted in God was ever forsaken. In illustration
582 5, 10 | desert, trusting only to God to supply his wants, and
583 5, 10 | stone and went to sleep; and God sent a caravan of travelers
584 5, 10 | his condition, saying that God had given men hands to use
585 5, 10 | exertion better than trust in God, as worldly occupations
586 5, 10 | citing the text, "Verily God is not ashamed to set forth
587 5, 10 | he has seen the light of God, he is safe~From the agitation
588 5, 10 | heart of all but the love of God, and thus, whenever thoughts
589 5, 10 | thoughts of anything besides God occurred to his mind, he
590 5, 10 | illustrate the thesis that God never fails to provide sustenance
591 5, 10 | the life of the breath of God."~The other said, "Here
592 5, 10 | We men are but branches, God's eternal decree the root.~
593 5, 10 | at the fire beneath them.~God said to Job, 'Out of my
594 5, 11 | The Magian replied, "If God wills it, no doubt I shall
595 5, 11 | The Mosalman replied, "God certainly wills it, that
596 5, 11 | Compulsionists," that on earth God is sole sovereign, and that
597 5, 11 | act only in furtherance of God's will. To hold that God
598 5, 11 | God's will. To hold that God is pulling men one way and
599 5, 11 | another is to derogate from God's sovereignty. Man cannot
600 5, 11 | whatever occurs is according to God's will, and Satan himself
601 5, 11 | act in a certain way,-that God expressly assumes man to
602 5, 11 | the traditions, "Whatever God wills is," and "The pen
603 5, 11 | which is "a gift imparted by God to whom He will." 5~Love
604 5, 11 | to be gained by love of God.~Besides this reason of
605 5, 11 | Besides this reason of yours God has other reasons~Which
606 5, 11 | to win enduring love of God, you sacrifice reason,~God
607 5, 11 | God, you sacrifice reason,~God gives you "a tenfold recompense;" 6
608 5, 11 | was only an offshoot of God's beauty;~Be lost, then,
609 5, 11 | beauty;~Be lost, then, in God's beauty more than those
610 5, 11 | than those women.~Love of God cuts short reasoning, O
611 5, 12 | What! does a follower of God indulge in wine? Followers
612 5, 12 | indulge in wine? Followers of God should have naught to do
613 5, 12 | as he was a favorite of God, 1 it was useless to attempt
614 5, 13 | s absolution the same as God's!~That priest is unable
615 5, 13 | are a mighty enchantment!~God's dealings visible to the
616 5, 13 | manifest to the spiritual!~O God, our eyes are blinded!~O
617 5, 13 | presence of the Everlasting God.~So the revolution of the
618 5, 13 | When the sea of love to God boiled up,~It touched his
619 5, 13 | stubbornness shunning obedience to God?~If you say not truly I
620 5, 13 | servant.~I have vowed to God never to quit this cell~
621 5, 13 | the sight of any besides God.~This is the 'greater warfare,'
622 5, 13 | what he had promised to God." 3 Then comes a long story
623 5 (5) | When God manifested Himself to the
624 5, 13 | the virility of asses,~Yet God esteemed him a lord of lords.~
625 5, 13 | Let me be dead, so long as God regards me with favor!~I
626 5, 13 | living who are rejected of God;~The former is the kernel
627 5, 13 | Those who die in amity with God have no cause to fear death, "
628 5, 13 | those who die at enmity with God are in a very different
629 5, 13 | cause would unite them with God, and that extinction of
630 5, 13 | people knew how gracious God hath been to me, and that
631 5, 13 | offenders'?" The Omniscient God needs not to be informed
632 5, 13 | therefore, implies ignorance of God, and "such only of His servants
633 5, 13 | possessed of knowledge of God truly fear God." 18 God
634 5, 13 | knowledge of God truly fear God." 18 God is at once center
635 5, 13 | God truly fear God." 18 God is at once center and circumference
636 6, Prol| this is a call to you from God;~It matters not to Him whether
637 6, Prol| Primal Soul is the theatre of God's court,~Soul of souls the
638 6, Prol| souls the exhibition of God Himself.~All the angels
639 6, Prol| souls would become lovers of God~Did not evil eyes or evil
640 6, Prol| That I may strive with God for thee!"~He said, "Nay;
641 6, Prol| had the mighty grace of God led the way,~How could this
642 6, Prol| this fear have vied with God's attraction?~O Granter
643 6, Prol| will had rested still, O God!~By the same fiat whereby
644 6, 1 | divinely ordained, that "God may bring to naught the
645 6, 1 | of bitter experience, but God has put out the sparks of
646 6, 1 | beacon-fire for war doth God quench it." 3 This is illustrated
647 6, 1 | replied that this was due to God's grace, not to any merit
648 6, 1 | condemned for saying to God, "Thou hast caused me to
649 6, 2 | vices.~The bird's cries to God for aid.~When he had eaten
650 6 (2) | To God I commit my case" (Koran
651 6, 3 | of eternal existence in God. The end and object of all
652 6, 3 | the creed, "There is no God," finds its complement and
653 6, 3 | in the affirmation "but God." Just so the purpose of
654 6, 3 | intoxication.~That wine of God is gained from that minstrel, 2~
655 6, 3 | some and guide some." 3~O God! when a spiritual man talks
656 6 (4) | When man is united with God he can no longer behold
657 6, 3 | spiritual, who have drunk of God's wine and bear the "tokens
658 6, 3 | world seem dead,~But to God they are instinct with sense
659 6, 3 | Know that the people of God expend money,~And build
660 6, 3 | risk their lives to gain God's favor;~One plunged in
661 6, 3 | in earnest desire to do God's will.~I likewise, in order
662 6, 3 | order to please the merciful God,~Beat my drum at every door
663 6, 3 | find one more liberal than God?~He buys the worthless rubbish
664 6, 3 | that raised tear-clouds,~God gave Abraham the title of "
665 6, 4 | Ahad!" "The One, the One God!" At this moment Abu Bakr,
666 6, 4 | on those who would study God's Word aright. 2~Growth
667 6, 4 | haste is spoiled.~Doubtless God could have created the universe~
668 6, 4 | take nine months?~Because God's method is to work by slow
669 6, 5 | was the advice given by God to the Israelites when they
670 6, 5 | Do what you will, but God's eye is on all your doings." 1
671 6, 5 | and lives on the Ocean (God).~When the Ocean casts its
672 6, 5 | Are better than exile from God and neglect of Him;~For
673 6, 5 | carries a wary heart before God." 5~This is illustrated
674 6, 5 | incurred by banishment from God. In the midst of their troubles
675 6, 5 | midst of their troubles God is ever caring for His servants,
676 6, 5 | tribulations blot out the memory of God's previous goodness to them.~
677 6, 5 | our members testifies to God's bounties towards us.~Inquire
678 6, 5 | body~Tells you tales of God's bounties to your body.~
679 6 (7) | offspring of communion with God. ~
680 6, 6 | Notwithstanding the clear evidence of God's bounty, engendering these
681 6, 6 | poor Faqir who prayed to God that he might be fed without
682 6, 6 | efforts, he cast his care upon God, and implored the divine
683 6, 6 | the Prophet Hud or Heber.~God rules men by alternations
684 6, 6 | weariness~He heard from God the word "Ascend!"~God is
685 6, 6 | from God the word "Ascend!"~God is an Abaser and an Exalter~
686 6, 6 | and will of the Merciful God~Inclined to the revelation
687 6 (4) | as Sir T. Browne says, "God is all things." ~
688 6, 6 | darkness opposing the light. 5~God set up two standards, a
689 6, 6 | fought one another.~When God grew weary of the length
690 6, 6 | and affliction increased~God made the water of the Nile
691 6, 6 | of iniquity.~Likewise did God ordain a punishment for
692 6, 6 | and violent wind.~Likewise God ordained acute punishment
693 6, 6 | hunger like a cuirass,~When God instils wrath into this
694 6, 6 | protects you from the cold,~God may give it the quality
695 6, 6 | the "shadowing cloud." 6~God's command came to city and
696 6, 6 | a divine voice came,~And God thus solved his difficulties,~
697 6, 6 | treasure with humility."~God is "what is nearer to you
698 6, 7 | the flesh and the devil. God was "nigh unto His faithful
699 6, 7 | divides his allegiance between God and lust; but they still
700 6, 7 | lead to the knowledge of God.~The Mosalman said, "O my
701 6, 7 | plays a game of love with God's interlocutor;~The Christian
702 6, 7 | science,~'Tis service of God and good conduct that gains
703 6, 7 | end.~'Tis for this that God created us,~"We created
704 6, 7 | science excluded him from God's portals.~Consider what
705 6, 7 | Nothing is vain of all that God has created,~Whether vengeance
706 6, 7 | executioner.~He whose eyes discern God in the world is safe from
707 6, 7 | sun is hidden,~He beheld God, and placed his hopes on
708 6, 8 | single-handed through the power of God assisting him. When the
709 6, 8 | the real benefactor was God alone, is illustrated by
710 6, 8 | chief butler rather than to God alone, for which cause "
711 6, 8 | trust in man and not in God.~When he recovered himself
712 6, 8 | recovered himself he said, "O God,~I have sinned in looking
713 6, 8 | visible and invisible~Which God has made between heaven'
714 6, 8 | attribute of man is to manifest God's signs.~Whatever is seen
715 6, 8 | man is the reflection of God,~Even as the reflection
716 6, 8 | the lord is obliterated in God that created him~Yea, lost
717 6, 8 | this lord as separate from God,~You annihilate at once
718 6, 8 | beyond mere water and clay,~God alone is the Qibla; regard
719 6, 8 | release in man and not in God.~In like manner Joseph,
720 6, 8 | this fault of that holy man~God left him in the prison for
721 6, 9 | meal for "The Friend of God," 3~Know, O master, the
722 6, 9 | slaves, apply them not to God,~Seek not to use a form
723 6, 9 | form as a similitude of God. 5~Seek Him with humbleness
724 6, 9 | better than directions to God,~To be satisfied is better
725 6, 9 | the unbought free grace of God is superior to any blessing
726 6, 9 | and trembling.~None but God was privy to their secrets,~
727 6, 9 | blessed with inspiration from God,~He learned birds' language
728 6, 9 | pronounce the "pure name" of God,~Yet it effects no such
729 6, 9 | is intimately united with God,~To name the one is the
730 6, 9 | the text, "Whoso feareth God, to him will he grant a
731 6, 9 | reckoned not." 13 Seekers after God fancy that He is far from
732 6, 9 | so must the seekers of God from these errors work out
733 6, 9 | out the conviction that God is very nigh to them that
734 6, 9 | and who, after calling on God for aid, dreamt that a great
735 6, 9 | thanks, and recognized how "God causes ease to follow troubles," 16
736 6, 9 | good for them," 17 and how God delays the answer to prayer,
737 6, 9 | Then the angels supplicate God, saying,~"O Thou that hearest
738 6, 9 | obtains his desire from Thee."~God makes answer, "The delay
739 6, 9 | wailing and cries of' O God!'~In this way by supplication
740 6, 9 | dwarf said to his wife, "God has given you arched brows
741 6, 9 | from the bonds of the body, God gives it sight to behold
742 6, 9 | those who give partners to God, he began to be puffed up
743 6, 9 | Izrail, the Angel of Death. God spared him, and nurtured
744 6, 9 | and showed enmity against God and Abraham His servant.
745 6, 9 | already been decreed by God, and he was slain by the
746 6, 9 | vengeance of That Jealous One (God)~After one year bore him
747 6, 9 | was missing.~He cried to God, "What has become of my
748 6, 9 | has become of my arrow?"~God answered, "Thy arrow is
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