The Ta-Sin of Understanding
The comprehensions of created natures are not attached to reality, and reality
is not attached to created natures. Thoughts (which come) are adherences, and
the adherences of created natures do not attach themselves to realities. The
perception of reality is difficult to acquire, so how much more difficult is
the perception of the reality of the Reality. Furthermore, Allah is beyond
reality, and reality does not in itself imply Allah.
The moth flies about the flame until morning, then he returns to his fellows
and tells them of his spiritual state with the most eloquent expressions. The
he mixes with the coquetry of the flame in his desire to reach perfect union.
The light of the flame is the knowledge of reality, its heat is the reality of
reality, and Union with it is the Truth of the reality.
He was not satisfied with its light nor with its heat, so he leapt into it
completely. Meanwhile, his fellows were awaiting his coming so that he could
tell them of his actual vision since he had not been satisfied with hearsay.
But at that moment, he was being utterly consumed, reduced and dispersed into
fragments, and he remained without form or body or distinguishing mark. Then in
what sense can he return to his fellows? And in what state now that he has
obtained? He who had arrived at the vision became able to dispense with
reports. He who arrives at the object of his vision is no longer concerned with
the vision.
These meanings do not concern the negligent man, nor the transitory man, nor
the man of wrong action, nor the man who follows his whims.
Oh you who are uncertain, do not identify ‘I am’ with the Divine ‘I’ - not now,
nor in the future, nor in the past. Even if the ‘I am’ was a consummated
gnostic, and if this was my state, it was not the perfection. Even though I am
His I am not He.
If you have understood this, then understand that these meanings were not true
from anyone except Muhammad, and ‘Muhammad is not the father of any one of your
men,’ but the Messenger of Allah and the seal of the prophets. He absented
himself from men and jinn, and he closed his eyes to ‘where’ until there no
longer remained any veil on the heart nor any falsehood.
There was a ‘length of two bows’ lengths or nearer,’ when he reached the desert
of the ‘knowledge of reality,’ he reported from the outward heart. When he
arrived to the truth of the reality he left his desire there and gave himself
up to the Bountiful. When he reached the Truth he returned and said: ‘the
inward heart has prostrated to You, and the outward heart has believed in You.’
When he reached the Furthermost Limit he said: ‘I cannot praise You as You
should be praised.’ When he reached the reality of the reality he said: ‘You
are the only One who can praise Yourself.’
He renounced his desire and followed his vocation, ‘the heart did not lie about
what it saw’ at this station near the Lote-Tree of the Boundary. He did not
turn to the right to the reality of things, nor to the left to the reality of
reality. ‘His eyes swerved not, nor swept away.’
Source: as quoted from Mansur al-Hallaj,
Author of 'The Tawasin', translated by:
Aisha Abd ar-Rahman at-Tarjumana
[Forwarded post from AbdulHaq, India]
PH PRO
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