Page:Book of Ighan (1915).djvu/146

134 the greatest veil," with the fire of the love of the Friend, and have raised another tent. And We glory in this, that We have burned the " veils of glory," praise be to God, with the fire of the beauty of the Beloved, and have placed none other than the Desired One in the mind and heart. Neither do We adhere to any knowledge but His Knowledge, nor cling to anything knowable save the splendor of His Lights.

To be brief: We were much astonished to find that by these statements he only wished to intimate that he possessed all these sciences, though I swear by God, he hath not felt a breeze from the garden of Divine Knowledge, nor is he informed of a single letter of the mysteries of Supreme Wisdom. Nay rather, should the meaning of Knowledge be explained, he would undoubtedly be confounded and the mountain of his being would be levelled. Notwithstanding his trivial and shallow statements, what extravagant claims he hath made!

Glory be to God! How We wonder at the people who have accepted and followed such a person! They are contented with the dust and adhere to it, rejecting the Lord of Lords; satisfied with the cry of the crow and visage of the raven, renouncing the melody of the nightingale and the beauty of the rose. Many things were seen among the spurious words of this book. Alas indeed that the pen should be employed in the mention of them, or that time should be wasted