Suhrawardi - Three Treatises on Mysticism.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

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When the sim arose they threw it out of their house
of misfortune, in order that it may be tortured by the rays
of the sun, and that torture was its vivification and "Think
not of those, who are slain in the way of Allah,
as dead.
Nay, they are living. With their Lord they have provision;
jubilant [are they] because of that which Allah hath bestowed
upon them of His bounty/
If the bats knew how much kindness they had done
to the chameleon by that punishment and what defect
they have by loss of its pleasure they would have died out
of anger.
AbA Sulaim&n of Dftr&n 2 says: "If the heedless
knew what pleasures of the gnostic they lack, they would
die out
of sadness."
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CHAPTER SEVEN.
Once a hoopoo on his way, fell amongst the fairies, and
alighted in their nest. 'The hoopoo
is known for extreme
The fairies are
keen-sighteclness. purblind; as the story of
their states is well-known to the Arabs. The hoopoo passed
the night in their nest and they asked all sorts of news from
him.
In the morning the hoopoo prepared to depart and
decided to leave. The fairies said: U O wretch, what is this
novelty that you have introduced? Do they
travel in the
1. Quran III, 163.
2. Abft Sulaiman 'Ahdarrahman b. 'Atiyah ad-Daranl, disciple of
.'Ahdalw&feid b. Zaid (cf. Massignon, Textes p. 5), was born in the year 140
A, H. in Wasit. He left his native place about 180 and settled down at
Daraya, in the plain of Damascus, where he died in 215 A, H. His
Disciple was Ahmad b. abi'l-HawwarS who edited the works of
Cf. Massignon, Lexique p. 197 sqq.
his master,