Gulchan I Raz

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...Adam. Illustration.4 875 When the light of the sun is divided from the night, You see its dawn and up-rising and full ascension. Again from the circling of the revolving heavens Declension and afternoon and sunset are seen. The light of the prophet is a mighty sun,3 Now shining in Moses, now in Adam. If you read the chronicles of the world, You will know clearly its several degrees. From this sun every moment is cast a shadow, Which is one degree in the ascension of faith. 380 The time of our lord is the meridian line,0 For he is purified from all shadow of darkness. On the meridian line he stands upright, 1 When prophecy ceased with Muhammad, saintship alone remained, and made the circuit of the world in the persons of the various saints. L. Muhammad Mehdi, the twelfth Imam, who will appear at the end of the world. 3 Koran, Sura XXI. 107: "We have not sent thee, but as a mercy to all creatures." On the relation of the minor prophets to Muhammad, and the minor saints to Muhammad Mehdi. L. I. e. Muhammad. He is said to be Ruh i 'azam, 'Akl i hull, and hakikat i insani, t hat is, the first emanation from Deity; and the minor prophets are thus emanations from him. Hence he is compared to the Sun, because ' the first thing God emitted was light.' L. 6 When the sun is on the meridian, at the time of the equinox, there are no shadows in countries near the Equator. L. Compare Dante, Purgatorio, XXX. 89. Casting no shadow before or behind, on the right hand or on the left. Since he stands on the 'narrow way' "of The Truth," 1 And takes his stand on the command 'Be steadfast.'2 He casts no shadow, for that involves darkness. Hail, O Light of God, O shadow of Divinity! His Kibla3 is between east and west, Because it is drowned...