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.
Notes
Translator’s note: The two instances of the unvocalized kh-l-q in the opening poem are read as khalq, bodily constitution, and khuluq, character.
