STOPPING IN THE NAME OF GOD
He stopped me & said to me:
All you have shown is your veil
& all you have hidden is your veil
& all you have inscribed is your veil
& all you have effaced is your veil
& all you have covered is also your veil.
& He said to me:
Your veil is your soul
It is the veil of veils
If you leave it, you leave the veils
If you veil yourself with it
All the veils will veil you.
& He said to me:
Leave your soul only through My light
It will traverse the veil, My light
Only then will you see how it veils
& through what it veils.
& He said to me:
If your essence leaves you, every veil will follow it
If your sojourn is inside a veil, it will reside there.
& He said to me:
He, He said: O Master
For my essence I have always been jailer
Its sojourn is in me
Give it back to its jail, re-establish it in its sojourn!
That's when I said: O my soul!
Come back to your jail
Re-establish yourself in your sojourn!
& He said to me:
Man!
He who has seen Me and has gazed on My "mawqif" (station)
illicit will be for him, inside My veil, licit food.
& He said to me:
Man! You will not make a resting place inside My veil. .....
(this version by Pierre Joris via a French translation by Youssef Seddik in Dédale # 1&2, p 100, Paris1995)
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