{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/taa/taa50.htm","path":"isl/taa/taa50.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/taa/taa50.htm","text":"The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq, by Ibn al-Arabi, tr. Reynold A. Nicholson, [1911]\n1. O dove on the b\u00e1n tree at Dh\u00e1t al-Gha\u1e0d\u00e1, I am oppressed by the burden thou hast laid upon me.\n2. Who can support the anguish of love? Who can drain the bitter draught of destiny?\n3. I say in my grief and burning passion, 'O would that he who caused my sickness had tended me when I am sick!'\n4. He passed by the house-door mocking, hiding himself, veiling his head and turning away.\n5. His veiling did me no hurt; I was only hurt by his having turned away from me.\n1. 'O dove,' i.e. the Absolute Wisdom.\n'Dh\u00e1t al-Gha\u1e0d\u00e1,' referring to states of self-mortification.\n'The burden': cf. Kor. xxxiii, 72.\n4. 'He passed,' etc., referring to Divine thoughts which flash upon the mind and are gone in a moment.\n5. i.e. I am necessarily veiled from God, but God's turning away from me is caused by some quality in me of which I am ignorant and which I cannot remove until God enables me to know what it is.","title":"The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq: Translation and Commentary: XLVII","type":"page"}