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• 09:44, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian40 (Created page with "بلی جُعل را بوی خوش ناخوش آید و مزکوم را رایحۀ طیب ثمر ندهد اینست که برای ارشاد عوام گفته‌اند دفع کن از مغز و از بینی زکام تا که ریح اللّه درآید در مشام")
• 09:43, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 39 (Created page with "And if a nightingale rises from the mud of ego and settles on the rosy cheeks of the heart, singing divine mysteries in the melodies of Hijazi and beautiful Iraqi songs, it can revive all dead bodies with fresh new life and spread the holy spirit on the bones of possible existences. But then you would see a thousand talons of envy and beaks of resentment intending to harm and wholeheartedly striving to destroy it.")
• 09:42, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian39 (Created page with "و اگر بلبلی از گِلِ نفس برخیزد و بر شاخسار گُل قلب جای گیرد و بنغمات حجازی و آوازهای خوش عراقی اسرار الهی ذکر نماید که حرفی از آن جمیع جسدهای مرده را حیوة تازۀ جدید بخشد و روح قدسی بر عظام رمیمۀ ممکنات مبذول دارد هزار چنگال حسد و منقار بغض بینی که قصد او نمایند و با...")
• 09:41, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 38 (Created page with "This is to say that some of the weak souls, who have put up walls of ego and desire, veils of neglect and blindness, have remained hidden from the illumination of the sun of meanings and secrets of the ever-present Beloved. They have become distant from the gems of wisdom of the revealed religion of the master of the messengers. They have been deprived of the sanctuary of beauty and have been abandoned from the Kaaba of majesty. This is the status of the people of the te...")
• 09:40, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian38 (Created page with "این است که بعضی از نفوس ضعیفه چون اراضی معرفت را بجدار نفس و هوی و حجاب غفلت و عمی حایل نمودند لهذا از اشراق شمس معانی و اسرار محبوب لا یزالی محجوب ماندند و از جواهر حکمت دین مبین سیّد المرسلین دور مانده‌اند و از حرم جمال محروم شدند و از کعبۀ جلال مهجور این است رتب...")
• 09:32, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 37 (Created page with "و هم‌چنین الوان هم باقتضای محلّ ظاهر میشود مثل اینکه در زجاجۀ زرد تجلّی زرد و در سفید تجلّی سفید و در سرخ تجلّی سرخ ملاحظه میشود پس این اختلافات از محلّ است نه از اشراق ضیا و اگر محلّ مانع داشته باشد مثل جدار و سقف آن محلّ بالمرّه از تجلّی شمس محروم ماند و آفتاب بر...")
• 09:29, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian37 (Created page with "و هم‌چنین الوان هم باقتضای محلّ ظاهر میشود مثل اینکه در زجاجۀ زرد تجلّی زرد و در سفید تجلّی سفید و در سرخ تجلّی سرخ ملاحظه میشود پس این اختلافات از محلّ است نه از اشراق ضیا و اگر محلّ مانع داشته باشد مثل جدار و سقف آن محلّ بالمرّه از تجلّی شمس محروم ماند و آفتاب بر...")
• 09:28, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 36 (Created page with "Indeed, it is known that all the differences in the realms of existence that the spiritual seeker observes at different stages of the journey are from the seeker's perspective. An example is given in this station to fully clarify this meaning. Consider the physical sun that manifests its illumination uniformly on all existent and possible things. It spreads its light by the command of the sovereign of appearance on all things. However, it appears in each place according...")
• 09:27, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian36 (Created page with "و معلوم آنجناب بوده که جمیع اختلافات عوالم کون که در مراتب سلوک سالک مشاهده میکند از نظر خود سالک است مثالی در اینمقام ذکر میشود تا این معنی تمام معلوم گردد ملاحظه در شمس ظاهری فرمائید که بر همۀ موجودات و ممکنات بیک اشراق تجلّی مینماید و افاضۀ نور بامر سلطان ظهور...")
• 09:23, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 35 (Created page with "And the spiritual seeker, after journeying through the valley of knowledge, which is the ultimate stage of determination, arrives at the first station of monotheism, drinks from the cup of abstraction, and travels through manifestations of singularity. In this station, the veil of plurality is removed, he ascends from the realms of desire and ascends into the heavens of unity. With divine ears, he hears, and with a divine eye, he sees the mysteries of God's acts. He step...")
• 09:22, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian35 (Created page with "و سالک بعد از سیر وادی معرفت که آخر مقام تحدید است باوّل مقام توحید واصل شود و از کأس تجرید بنوشد و در مظاهر تفرید سیر نماید در اینمقام حجاب کثرت بردرد و از عوالم شهوت برپرد و در سماء وحدت عروج نماید بگوش الهی بشنود و بچشم ربّانی اسرار صنع صمدانی بیند بخلوت‌خانۀ د...")
• 09:20, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 34 (Created page with "If you are a person of mystery and longing, take flight with the wings of the saints' aspiration so that you may see the secrets of the beloved and reach the light of the loved one. "Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will return."")
• 09:20, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian34 (Created page with "اگر اهل راز و نیازی بپرهای همّت اولیا پرواز کن تا اسرار دوست بینی و بانوار محبوب رسی انّا للّه و انّا الیه راجعون")
• 09:18, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 33 (Created page with "At this time, the dawn of knowledge arose, and the lights of journey and ascension were extinguished. Even Moses, with all his light and skill, became veiled from you without feather and wing.")
• 09:17, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian33 (Created page with "در اینوقت صبح معرفت طالع شد و چراغهای سیر و سلوک خاموش گشت وهم موسی با همه نور و هنر شد از آن محجوب تو بی ‌‌پر مپ")
• 09:15, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 32 (Created page with "Indeed, they ascend even from this station, as it is said, "Love is a veil between the lover and the beloved." I am not permitted to say more than this.")
• 09:13, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian32 (Created page with "بلکه از اینمقام هم بالا روند چنانچه میفرماید المحبّة حجاب بین المحبّ و المحبوب بیش از این گفتن مرا دستور نیست")
• 09:12, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 31 (Created page with "This is where the esteemed Master Abdullah, may his secret be sanctified, has made a subtle point and a powerful statement in the meaning of "Guide us on the Straight Path". This is to say, show us the right way, meaning, honor us with the love of Your Essence so that we may be freed from attention to ourselves and to others, becoming entirely engaged with You. May we know nothing but You, see nothing but You, and think of nothing but You.")
• 09:12, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian31 (Created page with "اینست که خواجه عبداللّه قدّس اللّه تعالی سرّه العزیز در اینمقام نکتۀ دقیقی و کلمۀ بلیغی در معنی اهدنا الصّراط المستقیم فرموده‌اند و آن اینست که بنمای بما راه راست یعنی بمحبّت ذات خود مشرّف دار تا از التفات بخود و غیر تو آزاد گشته بتمامی گرفتار تو گردیم جز تو ندا...")
• 09:10, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 30 (Created page with "This stage belongs to the people of this valley, and the inhabitants of the valleys above this valley see the beginning and the end as one; in fact, they neither see the beginning nor the end. They do not see 'neither the beginning nor the end'. Rather, the inhabitants of the eternal city, who dwell in the green meadow, do not even see 'neither the beginning nor the end'. They flee from the beginnings and contend with the ends. For they have traversed the realms of names...")
• 09:09, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian30 (Created page with "و این رتبۀ اهل این وادی است و اهل وادیهای فوق این وادی اوّل و آخر را یک بینند بلکه نه اوّل بینند و نه آخر لا اوّل و لا آخر بینند بلکه اهل مدینۀ بقا که در روضۀ خضرا ساکنند لا اوّل و لا آخر هم نه‌ بینند از اوّلها در گریزند و بآخرها در ستیز زیرا که عوالم اسما را طیّ نمود...")
• 09:09, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 29 (Created page with "If that lover was far-sighted, he would have seen mercy in the watchmen from the beginning and would have prayed for them. Seeing their cruelty as justice, he would not have complained at the outset. However, being veiled from the end, he started with lamentation and opened his tongue in complaint. But travelers in the garden of gnosis, since they see the end at the beginning, they observe peace in war and reconciliation in wrath.")
• 09:08, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian29 (Created page with "حال آن عاشق اگر آخربین بود در اوّل بر عسس رحمت مینمود و دعایش میگفت و آن ظلم را عدل میدید چون از آخر محجوب بود در اوّل ناله آغاز نمود و بشکایت زبان گشود ولکن مسافران حدیقۀ عرفان چون آخر را در اوّل بینند لهذا در جنگ صلح و در قهر آشتی ملاحظه کنند")
• 09:07, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 28 (Created page with "What he said was indeed true because it was observed how this cruelty of the harsh watchmen hid so much justice and mercy behind the curtain. Their wrath led the thirsty lover through the desert of love to the sea of his beloved. They turned the darkness of separation into the light of union, and they transformed distance into the proximity of a garden. They guided the ailing to the healer of hearts.")
• 09:00, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian28 (Created page with "و آنچه گفت فی ‌الحقیقه درست بود زیرا ملاحظه شد که این ظلم منکر عسس چه ‌قدر عدلها در سرّ داشت و چه رحمتها در پرده پنهان نموده بود بیک قهر تشنۀ صحرای عشق را ببحر معشوق واصل نمود و ظلمت فراق را بنور وصال روشن فرمود و بعیدی را ببستان قرب جای داد و علیلی را بطبیب قلب راه...")
• 08:59, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 27 (Created page with "He saw his beloved holding a lantern, looking for a lost ring. When the heartbroken lover saw his heart-stealing beloved, he sighed and raised his hands in prayer, saying, "O God, grant dignity and wealth to these watchmen and preserve them, for they were like Gabriel, guiding this weak soul, or like Israfil, giving life to this lowly one."")
• 08:59, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian27 (Created page with "دید معشوقش در دست چراغی دارد و تفحّص انگشتری مینماید که از او گم شده بود چون آن عاشق دلداده معشوق دل‌برده را دید آهی برکشید و دست بدعا برداشت که ای خدا این عسس را عزّت ده و دولت بخش و باقی دار که این عسس جبرئیل بود که دلیل این علیل گشت و یا اسرافیل بود که حیوة‌بخش ا...")
• 08:57, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 26 (Created page with "At last, the tree of his hope bore the fruit of despair, and the fire of his anticipation cooled down. Until one night, weary of life, he left his home and went to the market. Suddenly, a watchman started following him. He began to run, and the watchman gave chase until more watchmen gathered, and from every side, they blocked the path of the restless lover. The poor man was weeping from his heart and running in fear, thinking to himself, "This watchman is my Azrael (a...")
• 08:56, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian26 (Created page with "باری عاقبت شجر رجایش ثمر یأس بخشید و نار امیدش بیفسرد تا آنکه شبی از جان بیزار شد و از خانه ببازار رفت ناگاه او را عسسی تعاقب نمود او از پیش تازان و عسس از پی دوان تا آنکه عسسها جمع شدند و از هر طرف راه فرار بر آن بی‌قرار بستند و آن فقیر از دل مینالید و باطراف میدوید...")
• 08:55, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 25 (Created page with "They tell a story of a lover who for years languished in the absence of his beloved, burning in the fire of their separation. Overwhelmed by love, his heart emptied of patience, and his body grew weary of the soul. He regarded life in separation as hypocrisy, and he was in extreme agony from horizon to horizon. How many days he found no comfort in his beloved's absence, and how many nights he did not sleep from the pain. His body became as thin as a sigh due to weakness,...")
• 08:37, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian25 (Created page with "حکایت کنند عاشقی سالها در هجر معشوقش جان میباخت و در آتش فراقش میگداخت از غلبۀ عشق صدرش از صبر خالی ماند و جسمش از روح بیزاری جست و زندگی در فراق را از نفاق میشمرد و از آفاق بغایت در احتراق بود چه روزها که از هجرش راحت نجسته و بسا شبها که از دردش نخفته از ضعف بدن چون...")
• 08:25, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 24 (Created page with ""And the traveler in this valley, in the creation of Truth, sees absolutely no opposition or contradiction. In everything, he recites: 'Then return [your] vision [to the sky], do you see any breaks?'. He sees justice in oppression, and observes grace in justice. He sees concealed knowledge in ignorance, and in knowledge, he apprehends a hundred thousand clear and manifest wisdoms. He breaks the cage of the body and desires, and finds companionship in the breath of the d...")
• 08:18, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 23 (Created page with "Indeed, if the lover safely passes the beak of the falcon of love, with the divine support, he enters the realm of gnosis. He moves from doubt to certainty, from the darkness of delusion to the light of guidance. His spiritual eye opens, and he becomes engaged with his Beloved in earnest and sincere longing. He opens the door to truth and closes the doors to symbolism. In this state, he accepts divine decree with contentment, sees peace in conflict, and perceives the mea...")
• 18:10, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail40 (Created page with "Yea, to the beetle a sweet fragrance seemeth foul, and to the man sick of a rheum a pleasant perfume is as naught. Wherefore, it hath been said for the guidance of the ignorant: Cleanse thou the rheum from out thine head And breathe the breath of God instead.")
• 18:09, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail39 (Created page with "And if a nightingale soar upward from the clay of self and dwell in the rose bower of the heart, and in Arabian melodies and sweet Íránian songs recount the mysteries of God — a single word of which quickeneth to fresh, new life the bodies of the dead, and bestoweth the Holy Spirit upon the moldering bones of this existence—thou wilt behold a thousand claws of envy, a myriad beaks of rancor hunting after Him and with all their power intent upon His death.")
• 18:08, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail38 (Created page with "Thus it is that certain invalid souls have confined the lands of knowledge within the wall of self and passion, and clouded them with ignorance and blindness, and have been veiled from the light of the mystic sun and the mysteries of the Eternal Beloved; they have strayed afar from the jewelled wisdom of the lucid Faith of the Lord of Messengers, have been shut out of the sanctuary of the All-Beauteous One, and banished from the Ka’bih of splendor. Such is the worth of...")
• 18:07, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail37 (Created page with "In like manner, colors become visible in every object according to the nature of that object. For instance, in a yellow globe, the rays shine yellow; in a white the rays are white; and in a red, the red rays are manifest. Then these variations are from the object, not from the shining light. And if a place be shut away from the light, as by walls or a roof, it will be entirely bereft of the splendor of the light, nor will the sun shine thereon.")
• 18:06, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail36 (Created page with "It is clear to thine Eminence that all the variations which the wayfarer in the stages of his journey beholdeth in the realms of being, proceed from his own vision. We shall give an example of this, that its meaning may become fully clear: Consider the visible sun; although it shineth with one radiance upon all things, and at the behest of the King of Manifestation bestoweth light on all creation, yet in each place it becometh manifest and sheddeth its bounty according t...")
• 18:00, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail34 (Created page with "If thou be a man of communion and prayer, soar up on the wings of assistance from Holy Souls, that thou mayest behold the mysteries of the Friend and attain to the lights of the Beloved, “Verily, we are from God and to Him shall we return.”")
• 17:58, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail35 (Created page with "After passing through the Valley of knowledge, which is the last plane of limitation, the wayfarer cometh to The Valley of Unity and drinketh from the cup of the Absolute, and gazeth on the Manifestations of Oneness. In this station he pierceth the veils of plurality, fleeth from the worlds of the flesh, and ascendeth into the heaven of singleness. With the ear of God he heareth, with the eye of God he beholdeth the mysteries of divine creation. He steppeth into the sa...")
• 17:55, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail33 (Created page with "After passing through the Valley of knowledge, which is the last plane of limitation, the wayfarer cometh to The Valley of Unity and drinketh from the cup of the Absolute, and gazeth on the Manifestations of Oneness. In this station he pierceth the veils of plurality, fleeth from the worlds of the flesh, and ascendeth into the heaven of singleness. With the ear of God he heareth, with the eye of God he beholdeth the mysteries of divine creation. He steppeth into the sa...")
• 17:53, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail32 (Created page with "At this hour the morn of knowledge hath arisen and the lamps of wayfaring and wandering are quenched. Veiled from this was Moses Though all strength and light; Then thou who hast no wings at all, Attempt not flight. If thou be a man of communion and prayer, soar up on the wings of assistance from Holy Souls, that thou mayest behold the mysteries of the Friend and attain to the lights of the Beloved, “Verily, we are from God and to Him shall we return.”")
• 17:51, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail31 (Created page with "Wherefore, relevant to this, Khájih ‘Abdu’lláh — may God the Most High sanctify his beloved spirit — hath made a subtle point and spoken an eloquent word as to the meaning of “Guide Thou us on the straight path,” which is: “Show us the right way, that is, honor us with the love of Thine Essence, that we may be freed from turning toward ourselves and toward all else save Thee, and may become wholly Thine, and know only Thee, and see only Thee, and think of...")
• 17:49, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail30 (Created page with "Such is the state of the wayfarers in this Valley; but the people of the Valleys above this see the end and the beginning as one; nay, they see neither beginning nor end, and witness neither “first” nor “last.” Nay rather, the denizens of the undying city, who dwell in the green garden land, see not even “neither first nor last”; they fly from all that is first, and repulse all that is last. For these have passed over the worlds of names, and fled beyond the...")
• 17:48, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail29 (Created page with "Now if the lover could have looked ahead, he would have blessed the watchman at the start, and prayed on his behalf, and he would have seen that tyranny as justice; but since the end was veiled to him, he moaned and made his plaint in the beginning. Yet those who journey in the garden land of knowledge, because they see the end in the beginning, see peace in war and friendliness in anger.")
• 17:47, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail28 (Created page with "Indeed, his words were true, for he had found many a secret justice in this seeming tyranny of the watchman, and seen how many a mercy lay hid behind the veil. Out of wrath, the guard had led him who was athirst in love’s desert to the sea of his loved one, and lit up the dark night of absence with the light of reunion. He had driven one who was afar, into the garden of nearness, had guided an ailing soul to the heart’s physician.")
• 17:46, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail27 (Created page with "And there he beheld his beloved with a lamp in her hand, searching for a ring she had lost. When the heart-surrendered lover looked on his ravishing love, he drew a great breath and raised up his hands in prayer, crying: “O God! Give Thou glory to the watchman, and riches and long life. For the watchman was Gabriel, guiding this poor one; or he was Isráfíl, bringing life to this wretched one!”")
• 17:45, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail26 (Created page with "At last, the tree of his longing yielded the fruit of despair, and the fire of his hope fell to ashes. Then one night he could live no more, and he went out of his house and made for the marketplace. On a sudden, a watchman followed after him. He broke into a run, with the watchman following; then other watchmen came together, and barred every passage to the weary one. And the wretched one cried from his heart, and ran here and there, and moaned to himself: “Surely thi...")
• 17:44, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail25 (Created page with "There was once a lover who had sighed for long years in separation from his beloved, and wasted in the fire of remoteness. From the rule of love, his heart was empty of patience, and his body weary of his spirit; he reckoned life without her as a mockery, and time consumed him away. How many a day he found no rest in longing for her; how many a night the pain of her kept him from sleep; his body was worn to a sigh, his heart’s wound had turned him to a cry of sorrow. H...")
• 17:43, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail24 (Created page with "The wayfarer in this Valley seeth in the fashionings of the True One nothing save clear providence, and at every moment saith: “No defect canst thou see in the creation of the God of Mercy: Repeat the gaze: Seest thou a single flaw?” He beholdeth justice in injustice, and in justice, grace. In ignorance he findeth many a knowledge hidden, and in knowledge a myriad wisdoms manifest. He breaketh the cage of the body and the passions, and consorteth with the people of t...")