He means: if you saw the Real, you would not renounce. God has not renounced creation, and there is no assuming of traits except through God. Whose traits, then, do you assume in renunciation? Consider this meaning: it is exceedingly subtle.
Chapter Ninety-Four: On Leaving Renunciation
Renunciation is leaving, and leaving leaving is known
to be holding what is grasped within the hand.
The earth is His grasp, while He is free of need: where, then,
is leaving? It is an impossibility enjoined upon you.
The Real does not enjoy blessing; you are for it.
You have renounced: this expression is an allusion.
Renunciation has no rank within knowledge;
leaving it is enjoined upon the people of gathering.
(Leaving Renunciation)
Know that leaving leaving is holding, and renunciation is leaving. Leaving renunciation is therefore leaving leaving: your very return to what you renounced, because true knowledge returns you to it and the state requires it. It has no reality within the inward matter, although it has a certain ruling outwardly, and this measure of it is sound.
It remains to ask whether
Notes
Translator’s note TN4020-1: Leaving leaving is interpreted as holding, not as another act of abandonment. The author also denies that God renounces creation, making a corresponding divine trait unavailable to the person claiming renunciation.
