Hadith 31

garding the length and the shortness upon one order and one flow, with resting the one who rests during the, and the dispersal of the one who disperses during the night, and dispersal of the one which disperses during the day and resting of the one who rests during the day. Then, the heat and the cold, and the advents follow up, one on the heels of another until the heat becomes cold, and the cold (becomes) heat during its time and its season. All this is from what the heart is evidence upon the Lord-azwj, Glorious and Exalted, and the heart knows by its intellect that the One-azwj Who Arranged these things, He-azwj is the One, the Mighty, the Wise Who neither declines not will be declining. And it is so, if there was in the skies and the earths (another) god along with Him-azwj, the Glorious, each god would with whatever he created, and raise some of them upon the other, and each one of the two would spoil matters upon his counterpart. And similar to that, the ears hear what the Arranger has Sent down from the Books in ratification of what the hearts realise with their intellects, and Allah-azwj Inclining it, and what he said, the one who recognised His-azwj Essence, recognised Him-azwj as being without a son or a female companion or an associate. The ear leads with what it hears from the tongue with the words of the Prophets-as, to the heart. He said, ‘You-asws have given me from the subtle doors with what no one has given me apart from you-asws, except that nothing is preventing me from leaving what is in my hands (atheism) except the clarification, and the strong argument with what you-asws described to me and interpreted’. I-asws said: ‘But, when you are veiled from the answer, and there is a differing from you of the words, so I-asws shall give you from the evidence, from the direction of your own self in particular, what would explain to you that the senses do not recognise anything except through the heart. Have you seen in the dream that you are eating and drinking until the taste of that arrives to your heart? ’ He said, ‘Yes’. I-asws said: ‘Have you seen that you are laughing and crying and wandering in the cities which you had not seen and which you had seen, until you know the landmarks of what you saw from these? ’ He said, ‘Yes, what I cannot even count’. I-asws said: ‘Have you seen anyone from your relatives, from a brother, or father, or near relatives who had died before that until you knew him and recognised him like your recognising him before he had died? ’ He said, ‘More than the more’. I-asws said: ‘Tell me, which of your sense realise these things in your dream until it points your heart upon witnesses the deceased and their speeches, and eating their foods, and the wandering in the citie