"In this station, both instruction and apprenticeship are assuredly of no avail:
The lovers’ teacher is the Loved One’s beauty,
His face their lesson and their only book.
Learning of wonderment, of longing love their duty;
Not on learned chapters and dull themes they look.
The chains that bind them are His musky hair;
The Cyclic Scheme, to them, is but to Him a stair.
Here followeth a supplication to God—blessed and glorified be He:
O Lord, O Thou Whose grace fulfilleth every need!
To mention aught before Thee would be sin indeed.
Allow this mote of knowledge hidden in my soul
To free itself of lowly clay and reach its goal.
And grant this drop of wisdom that
Thou gavest me To be at last united with Thy mighty sea.
Thus do I say: There is no power nor strength except in God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting."
~Bahá'u'lláh
119 Rúmí. A reference to the Cyclic Theory of Avicenna (Abu-‘Alí Síná [980–1037]).
120 Rúmí
"Abiding in the court of rapture, the dwellers of this mansion wield with utmost joy and gladness the sceptres of divinity and lordship; and, established upon the lofty seats of justice, they exert their rule and bestow upon every soul its due. Those who drink of this cup abide beneath the canopy of glory, above the throne of the Ancient of Days, and dwell upon the seat of grandeur beneath the tabernacle of majesty. These are they that “know neither sun nor piercing cold”.126
