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1 Pre | would reproach you, but God also; and our enemies would
2 Pre | neither gold nor power, but God has made him both munificent
3 Pre | inscribed a sentence in Arabic: "God is the enduring, and all
4 Pre | doctrines of the union of God and man, the infusion of
5 Pre | existence; all that is, is God, and beyond him there is
6 Pre | exist only in the mind of God and have no existence beyond." "
7 Pre | things are an emanation from God and that unto him they shall
8 Pre | union, the identification of God and man. It is a doctrine
9 Pre | to describe the union of God and man. Jelaleddin Rumi
10 Pre | with the contemplation of God just as the body is intoxicated
11 Pre | the first the mystic sees God in the form of a corporal
12 Pre | This losing of the soul in God is only a return (and here
13 Pre | Sufi longs to return to God, from whom it has been separated
14 Pre | nothing which is not from God and a part of God. In himself
15 Pre | not from God and a part of God. In himself he contains
16 Pre | the universal presence of God, and the blind searching
17 Pre | The world is posterior to God only in the nature of its
18 Pre | existence when it pleased God to manifest himself beyond
19 Pre | attained to complete union with God, should be obliged to return
20 Pre | the all-powerfulness of God with man's consciousness
21 Pre | impossible to conceive a God worth the name who shall
22 Pre | shall be acceptable unto God."[3] There is a tradition
23 Pre | own salvation; for it is God which worketh in you both
24 Pre | I will not declare since God has seen fit to conceal
25 Pre | equal truth that they are God's." In the Gulshen-i-Raz,
26 Pre | distinctly laid down that God will take men's actions
27 Pre | since both alike flow from God, from whom all flows. Some
28 Pre | beauty, Hell the glory of God, and when it is said that
29 Pre | is no distinction between God and man; the soul is but
30 Pre | is but an emanation from God, and a man is therefore
31 Pre | the fanatic Hallaj, "I am God." Though Hallaj paid with
32 Pre | to a tree to say, 'I am God,'" writes the author of
33 Pre | say it?" And again: "In God there is no distinction
34 Pre | said that a Sufi once asked God why he suffered his servant
35 Pre | voice that crieth, 'I am God.'"~The conception of the
36 Pre | but since they believed God to be the source of all
37 Pre | reach perfect union with God, they must have held Mahommadanism
38 Pre | is completely united with God), what matters the Ka'ba
39 Pre | of Paradise, and he heard God pronounce a word of assent. '
40 Pre | angel, 'some man is invoking God. I know not who he is; but
41 Pre | back to the presence of God, and again he heard him
42 Pre | he saw not the servant of God. 'Oh Lord,' he cried, 'show
43 Pre | Go to the Land of Rome,' God answered, 'and in a certain
44 Pre | idol in a monastery?' And God replied, 'His spirit is
45 Pre | of religious mysticism, God is not only the Creator
46 Pre | moments of ecstatic union with God; and his account of the
47 Pre | didst not slay them, but God slew them, and thou didst
48 Pre | when thou didst shoot, but God shot"--they take as a proof
49 Pre | the essential oneness of God and man.[1] The whole book
50 Pre | earnestly after union with God, they are saved from the
51 Pre | attained to perfect union with God, and even for them the moments
52 Pre | sentiment all conceptions of God, of man, and of the universe.
53 Pre | swift was the vengeance of God in sweeping pestilence and
54 Pre | seeker after wisdom, praying God to show him some guiding
55 Pre | Hallaj, "though fools whom God hath not uplifted know not
56 Pre | meaning of him who said, I am God." Sometimes we find him
57 Pre | filled with the desire of God must have some quality which
58 Pre | his disciples the idol is God; beauty is the divine perfection
59 II(*) | unless very rarely, when God permits it to be seen, a
60 III | send thee heavenly grace.~God the Creator mirrored in
61 III | face~Thine eyes shall see, God's image in the glass~I send
62 III(*) | a worshipper of the true God.) "Then Solomon wrote a
63 III(*) | saying: From the servant of God, Solomon, son of David,
64 III(*) | of Saba, in the name of God the Merciful, the Compassionate,
65 III(*) | mirror, for he shall see God himself reflected in it--
66 III(*) | the doctrine that man and God are one. The poet's reputation
67 IV | know,~But know in vain!~God send to thee great length
68 V | thy servant 'twas well--~God pardon thee! for thy words
69 V(*) | existence, the real beloved, God) had, I (the first day)
70 V(*) | chastity (the pure existence of God)." The learned translator
71 VI | heaven and earth before me God unroll,~Back to thy village
72 VII | He may find a place in God's Paradise.~ ~
73 VIII | halting-station of mirth~God's treaty: Am I not Lord
74 VIII(*) | Stanza 3.--When God had created man and made
75 VIII(*) | first great pact between God and man.~Stanza 4.--Compare
76 VIII(*) | was engraved the name of God which is unknown to men
77 IX(*) | have seen the reflection of God, the true Beloved.~Stanza
78 XI | what, between the two, is God's design?~ ~
79 XIII | my drunken brain~Praise God! who trieth not His slave
80 XIV | though the cordage start,~For God's sake help me lift my fallen
81 XIV(*) | the dust and water which God kneaded into the body of
82 XVII(*) | of blessedness, because God's mercy exceeds His justice.~
83 XVIII | gaze!~But thou that knowest God by heart, away!~Wine-drunk,
84 XVIII(*)| he had been informed by God that Al Khizr was wiser
85 XIX(*) | brought him a word from God; and when finally the last
86 XXIII | and eve he told,~Worn with God's praise; and see! he holds
87 XXIV | dwelling-place~To pierce my night, oh God! and draw me near.~From
88 XXV | more prevail!~Praise be to God, now that the rose is near~
89 XXV(*) | prove their existence: "God," he said," has no bukhl (
90 XXVIII | high?~My love and I alone, God favouring us!~Andwhen she
91 XXIX | fled from out my door--~God counts our tears and knows
92 XXX | oh site without peer!~May God be the Watchman before thy
93 XXX | desolate,~A hundred times, "God forbid!" I pray;~Its limpid
94 XXX(*) | write down the decrees of God; through him the Koran was
95 XXX(*) | hovering above the throne of God, shelters it with his wings.
96 XXX(*) | town. So did I also. May God have mercy on Shiraz!" he
97 XXXII | if one bid thee cease,~"God is the merciful!" thou shalt
98 XXXIV | bear~The burden of His love God laid on it,~He turned to
99 XXXIV(*)| praise and sanctify thee. God answered, Verily I know
100 XXXIV(*)| thou art knowing and wise. God said, Oh Adam, tell them
101 XXXIV(*)| had told them their names, God said, Did I not tell you
102 XXXIV(*)| white, and yellow, that God might create out of it the
103 XXXIV(*)| empty-handed. The fourth time God sent Azrail, the angel of
104 XXXIV(*)| that Azrail brought him God moulded the figure of man,
105 XXXIV(*)| figure of clay was dry, God breathed the breath of life
106 XXXIV(*)| of clay; for which reason God cast him out of Paradise.
107 XXXIV(*)| superiority of Adam after God had made him tell them the
108 XXXIV(*)| him, for their love for God was greater than his. It
109 XXXIV(*)| and receive instruction in God's wisdom, but where they
110 XXXIV(*)| by the contemplation of God.~Stanza 3.--"Concerning
111 XL | The Saki's radiant eyes, God favouring,~Are like a wine-cup
112 XL(*) | through the prophets. But God, hearing their words, determined
113 XL(*) | confided to her the secret of God, and as soon as she had
114 XL(*) | rose up into heaven, where God changed her form and turned
115 XL(*) | Venus, was wont to exclaim: "God curse Zohra! for it was
116 XLII | players' feet,~The ball of God's favour and mercy came,~
117 XLII | sun?~Hafiz, the secret of God's dread task~No man knoweth,
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