Manuscript volume 26 · Page 267

وفيه علم إنزال الحق العالم بالشيء منزلة نفسه منه في ذٰلك العلم، ولهٰذا نقول: لا منزلة أشرف من العلم؛ لأنه ينزلك منزلة الحق:

لقد حزت كل الطيب فيما لثمته

وقد علم الأقوام من قد لثمته

وإن الذي في الكون من كل طيب

من العقل والإحساس فيما طعمته

﴿وَ الله يَقُولُ الْحَقَّ وهُوَ يَهْدِي السَّبِيلَ﴾ [الأحزاب: ٤]

الباب الثاني والسبعون وثلاثمائة في معرفة منزل سر وسرين وثنائك عليك بما ليس لك وإجابة الحق إياك في ذٰلك لمعنى شرفك به من حضرة محمدية

من حاز شطر الكون في خلقه

وشطره الآخر في خلقه

فذاك عين الوقت في وقته

وبدره الطالع في أفقه

It contains knowledge of the Real's placing one who knows a thing in His own station regarding that knowledge. Hence we say: no station is nobler than knowledge, for it places you in the Real's station:

I have attained every sweetness within what I kissed,

And the people know whom I kissed.

Every sweetness within the cosmos,

Intellectual and sensory, is within what I tasted.

‘God speaks the truth, and He guides the way’ [al-Aḥzāb 33:4]

Chapter Three Hundred and Seventy-Two: On Knowing the Abode of a Mystery and Two Mysteries, Your Praising Yourself for What Is Not Yours, and the Real's Answering You in This through a Meaning with Which He Honored You, from a Muhammadan Presence

Whoever possesses half the cosmos in his bodily constitution

And its other half in his character

Is the very essence of the moment within his moment,

And its full moon rising upon its horizon.