6-825 O best Helper, only You can make the eye – that sees the non-existent – see

that which is really existent.

6-826 The eye that was produced from non-existence saw the Essence of real Being
as wholly non-existent;

The resurrection, the renewal or transformation

and the impermanence of beings296. [1.7.7]
6-827 But, if your two eyes are transformed and illumined, this well-ordered world
becomes the scene of the Last Judgement297.

6-761 In the whole world, both men and women are continually in agony and dying.

1-1144 Every moment the world is renewed, and we are unaware of its being renewed
while it remains the same in appearance.

1-1145 Like the stream, life is continually renewed, even though in the body it takes on
the appearance of everlastingness.

1-1147 If you whirl a piece of burning wood rapidly, it appears to the eye as a very
long line of fire.

1-1148 The swift motion produced by the action of God presents this length of
duration (Time) as a phenomenon arising from the rapidity of God’s action298.

1-1142 Every instant, then, you are dying and returning: Muṣṭafā declared that this
world only lasts for a single moment299.

1-2110 At every moment the call, “Am not I your Lord?” 300 comes from Him and
substance and accidents301 become existent.

1-2111 If they do not answer “Yes”, then their coming from non-existence into
existence still is equivalent to “Yes”.

1-2222 From the Unseen soul and spirit come into human existence, like running
water.

296
Qur’ān 15:50.
297
I.e. “what is universally and eternally true.”
298
I.e. “This impression of continuity arises from the rapidity of God’s action.”
299
Ḥadīth: Aḥādith-e Mathnawī p. 56; Al-Lu’lu’u’l-Marṣū‘ p. 36.
300
Qur’ān 7:172 – the Day of Alast: while all human souls already existed within God before creation, God
asked them: “Am I not your Lord? (a lastu bi-Rabbikum?)”, and they all answered “Yes! We testify!”. Ṣūfī
mystics have always endeavoured to inwardly remember the Day of Alast, in order to return to man’s true inner
state, which is the awareness of the soul’s existence in the love of God, just as the love of God has always
existed within the souls of mankind.
301
Here, “accident” is used as a philosophical term, meaning “a nonessential attribute or characteristic of
something”.

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