Suhrawardi - Three Treatises on Mysticism.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

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creatures." He said: "When we did so and fulfilled all the
conditions:" "the earth shine th with the light of her Lord,
and it is
judged between them with truth" 1 and it is said,
"Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. Peace be upon those
meeting-places, verily they are the path of my approach to
water and the channel of my north wind."
CHAPTER Six.
At a certain time, some bats turned hostile towards a
chameleon and the animosity between them became violent.
The controversy between them transgressed the limit. The
bats decided that when the darkness of the night
is diffused
over the surface of the firmament and the
sun goes into the
enclosure of sunset, they will gather and make an attempt
against the chameleon and will take the chameleon captive
like warriors in order to punish it according
to their heart's
desire and to kill it
by the way of vengeance. When the
time at their disposal came to an end they came out and dragged
the poor chameleon to their house of adversity by assisting
and helping one another. They kept it captive
for that
night. In the morning they said: "What is the mode of
punishing this chameleon?" All agreed on it.
killing Then
they consulted one another about the manner, and came to
the conclusion that there is no punishment worse than looking
at the sun. Altogether, in analogy of their own conditions,
they did not regard any punishment worse than association
with the sun. They terrified it of looking at the sun. The
chameleon itself wished that of God. The poor chameleon
desired ?n its heart this sort of death. Husain-i Mansftr
says:
"Kill me, () my confidants; killing me is my life,
My life is my death and my death is my life," *
1.
Quran XXIX, 69.