{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/taa/taa39.htm","path":"isl/taa/taa39.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/taa/taa39.htm","text":"The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq, by Ibn al-Arabi, tr. Reynold A. Nicholson, [1911]\n1. O earth of the Highland, mayst thou be a blessed highland! May the rain-clouds water thee abundantly with shower on shower!\n2. And may he who has greeted thee for fifty years greet thee once and twice and then once again!\n3. I crossed every desert and wilderness to meet her, riding on the big-humped she-camel and the old dromedary,\n4. Until the lightning shone from the direction of al-Gha\u1e0d\u00e1, and its coming in the night has increased the passion that I felt before.\n1. 'O earth of the Highland,' i.e. the understanding in the corporeal world.\n'The rain-clouds', i.e. Divine Knowledge.\n2. 'He who has greeted thee,' i.e. the Truth, which bestows spiritual gifts.\n3. 'I crossed every desert and wilderness,' i.e. I suffered austerities and mortifications of the flesh.\n'The big-humped she-camel,' i.e. the religious law.\n'The old dromedary,' i.e. the matured and experienced mind.\n4. 'The lightning,' i.e. the luminous radiance of the most inaccessible veil of the Divine glory.\n'Al-Gha\u1e0d\u00e1,' phenomenal existence.\n'Coming in the night,' i.e. in the darkness of the phenomenal world.","title":"The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq: Translation and Commentary: XXXVI","type":"page"}