become like the honey-bee and find an unending light of existence. So sacrifice it! For your being is a trust given to you for safekeeping.

Moreover, it is His property, it is He Who bestowed it. So don’t reject the favour, sacrifice it unhesitatingly. Sacrifice it so that it will be made permanent. For negation of a negation is an affirmation. That is, if non-being is not, there is being. If non-being is negated, existence comes into being.

The All-Generous Creator buys His own property from you and gives you the high price of Paradise in return. Also, He guards the property well for you and increases its value. Then He will return it to you in enduring and perfect form. O my soul! Don’t delay! Do this trade which is profitable in five respects and be saved from five losses; make a fivefold profit all at once! ∗ ∗ ∗

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

But when it set, he said: “I love not those that set.”(6:76)

It made me weep, the verse “I love not those that set,” which was uttered by Abraham (Upon whom be peace), for it announces the universe’s passing and death.

My heart’s eyes wept at it, pouring out bitter tears. Each tear-drop was sorely sad as the eyes of my heart wept. The verse causes others to weep, and as though weeps itself. The following lines in Persian are my tear-drops, a sort of commentary of some words present within the divine word of God’s wise one, the Prophet Messenger (UWBP).

A beloved who by setting is lost to view is not beautiful, for those doomed to decline cannot be truly beautiful. They may not be loved with the heart, for it is created for eternal love and is the mirror of the Eternally Besought One; they should not be loved with it.

A desired one who is doomed to be lost on setting; such a one is not worthy of the heart’s attachment, the mind’s preoccupation. He should not be the object of desire. He is not worthy of being regretted with the sorrow and grief that follows. Why should the heart worship such a one and be bound to him?

One sought who is lost in ephemerality; I don’t want such a one. For I am ephemeral, I don’t want one who is thus. What should I do?

One worshipped who is buried in death; I shan’t call him, I shan’t seek refuge with him. I am infinitely needy and impotent; anyone powerless can provide no cure for my boundless ills. He can spread no salve on my