49 - The Chambers

Thou Allah! Thou Gracious! Thou Merciful! Thou Beloved!

1. You who listen but have not heard! Do not eclipse Allah and his Message; Do not hide Allah, do not hide from Allah; bare yourselves to the one who hears and knows all things.
2. You who listen but have not heard! Raise not your voice above the voices of the Anbiyaa, nor speak so loudly that you startle the sparrows. The din of your voice drowns out the message of the prophets, the messengers. Instead of love, instead of light, you will have only vanity and pale comfort.
3. Those that lower their voices in the presence of Allah's Anbiyaa, hear Allah before the sun has risen too high.
4. Shout out to Allah all you wish. Allah does not attend to voices from those who do not have lodging in the Inner Apartments.
5. Patience! Learn to speak with Allah's lips, see with Allah's eyes, live with Allah's body!
   
6. You who know! If a person comes to you with any news, ascertain the truth, lest ye harm others, and afterwards become full of repentance for what you have done.
7. Know that among you are Allah's Messengers: the messenger is not here to follow your desires, to be as you imagine he should be. Were he to follow your dream of him you would certainly suffer. Allah has bestowed light and vision on you; beautiful in your hearts. The messengers are here to recruit you to yourself, to remind you of the beauty of Allah.
8. You are the Grace and Favor of Allah; Allah is full of Knowledge and Wisdom.
9. The Believers and Non-believers are but a single Brotherhood: so make peace and reconciliation.
   
10. O ye who believe! Do not seek to seperate one brother from another by words or deeds, nor by silence or inaction.
11. O ye who believe! Avoid suspicion: for suspicion stiffens the weighty veils of illusion. That which you seek to protect with suspicion does not exist. What are you protecting?
12. Your religion is Awakening to the one reality and then living its implications in the marketplace.
    

104 - The Slanderer

Thou Allah! Thou Gracious! Thou Merciful! Thou Beloved!

1. Gossip, hear-say and slander
2. Break the bonds between you and Allah.
   
3. Speaking for those who cannot;
4. Challenging those who would oppress;
5. Praising sweetly those who are beyond notice;
6. Build your connection to Allah.
   
7. Speak truth with compassion.
8. Speak with Allah's lips.
   

94 - The Expansion

Thou Allah! Thou Gracious! Thou Merciful! Thou Beloved!

1. Drawing near to Allah
2. His breath upon my neck,
3. I shudder and weep.
4. Fallen from me are my burdens;
5. My back straightening from the release.
   
6. Swelling in me, Love fills my breast.
7. Through suffering I learned to see my beloved.
8. Through difficulty I came to dwell in relief.
9. Through the gift of inner struggle
10. I came to hear the sparrows in the morning.
    
11. With new strength I pick up the sack from where it lay in the sand.
12. I reshoulder my burdens.
13. The mountains are mountains.
14. The rivers are rivers.
    

25 - Foundation

Thou Allah! Thou Gracious! Thou Merciful! Thou Beloved!

1. Around me the Masters of the Ages are closer than even my own eyebrows.
2. I lay my footsteps where theirs have fallen,
3. I submit to the memories that still linger in the air,
4. I seek to make out their forms in the heat and the distance.
5. Precious human life, once gained, Has great potential but is easily lost.
6. Even devoted to Allah, yielding my eyes to his every glance, death is quick to strike.
7. Into this greatest of illusions we draw our veils with us.
8. Into this greatest of illusions we draw the the seeds we have sown.
9. Into this greatest of illusions we draw the the unripened fruits of the seeds we have sown.
10. Discard the veils, sow good seed, trust in the truth of Allah, the one.
    
11. There will be no bestowal of amnesty, no reprieve.
12. Your every breath, continual rememberence of Allah.
13. Your every glance, continual rememberence of Allah.
14. Your every thought, continual rememberence of Allah.
15. You need not fear the senses, they are Allah's!
16. You need not fear the mind, it is Allah's.
    
17. Do not mistake your experience as your own for that is the crux of illusion, that is the gate of samsara.
18. Realize the veils of illusion;
19. Cultivate wisdom;
20. Cultivate the mind of awareness.
21. Live in accord with the law of causation.
    
22. Train your mind, body and spirit.
    
23. Awaken!
24. Face the dawn of Awakening and set to work, your journey is just begun.

11 - The Well

Thou Allah! Thou Gracious! Thou Merciful! Thou Beloved!

1. That which you see as trapping you
2. of limiting you
3. of constraining your soul from freedom
4. is your salvation!
5. Your eyes have not yet adjusted to it
6. you are a man in a well who bemoans his fate
7. trapped in the wet and the dark at the bottom.
8. When the lone shaft of light reaches your eyes
9. do you not marvel at its brilliance?
10. When your narrow view of the sky turns orange
11. with the fire that destroys the forest
12. are you not safe?
13. When thieves hide their loot in the depths of your well
14. do you not have all the riches you need?
15. when the moon arises and shines into your world
16. are you not bathed clean in its light?
17. You are trapped, to be sure, but you want for nothing.
18. And when the villagers need that most essential to life,
19. it is your kingdom they visit.

75 - The Resurrection

Thou Allah! Thou Gracious! Thou Merciful! Thou Beloved!

1. By my body and by my soul!
2. Do the unbelievers not see that Allah is the source of all?
3. Do they not see how he is the Lord of Science?
4. Do they not see that there need be no grand design beyond the law of causation.
5. Before the beginning of time and space, Allah was playing.
6. Allah created Love like a potter would throw clay.
7. Allah created Wonder, Earth, Water, Time, Space, Void.
8. Allah created the law of causation, sublime and just.
9. Once he set in motion the law of causation, Allah, contented, breathed himself upon himself.
10. For a brief moment Allah played with forgetting - and in this moment our longing arose.
11. We long to be reunited with Allah, for dimly we remember the time before.
12. Man questions: "When is the Day of Resurrection?"
13. When indeed will the dead walk again among the living?
14. The day of Resurection is the day of Awakening.
15. Awaken! Be not merely reborn but awaken to the nearness of Allah.
16. Upon Awakening, one exclaims: "Here is my refuge! Here is my respite! Here lives sorrow in the bosom of the infinite!"
17. Some faces, that Day, will beam in brightness and beauty;
18. Looking towards their Lord;
19. And some faces, that Day, will be sad and dismal;
20. Looking towards their Lord;
21. But all faces will be in Joy; in the radiance of their beloved.

86 - The Night-Comer

Thou Allah! Thou Gracious! Thou Merciful! Thou Beloved!

1. Deep in the midnight of dreams a star of piercing clarity.
2. The sweet love-gift of Allah!
3. A drop emitted; let man consider the source of his creation.
4. The law of causation is an inexorable chain of cause and effect.
5. What is the first cause, what is the last effect?
6. If the chain were not unbroken, there would be none to consider it.
7. If causation did not extend right to Allah, there would be none to know him.
   
8. Therefore grant a delay to the Unbelievers: give respite to them gently.
9. They are in the same malestrom of creation, but they do not see the face of the wind.