بخش 171 - بیان آنک هرچه غفلت و غم و کاهلی و تاریکی‌ست همه از تن است کی ارضی است و سفلی

Heedlessness was (derived) from the body: when the body has become spirit, it inevitably beholds the mysteries (of the Unseen).

When the earth is removed from the celestial atmosphere, there is neither night nor shade nor sunset.

Wherever shade and night or shadowy place exist, ’tis (caused) by the earth, not by the heavens and the moon.

Likewise, ’tis from the faggots that the smoke always arises, not from the resplendent fires.

The imagination falls into error and mistake; the intellect is (engaged) only in acts of true perception.

Every state of heaviness (sloth) and indolence, indeed, is (derived) from the body; the spirit, from its lightness (subtlety), is all on the wing.

The face is red from the predominance of blood; the face is yellow from the movement (action) of the yellow bile.

The face is white from the power of the phlegm; ’tis from the black bile that the face is swarthy.

In reality He (God) is the creator of effects, but followers of the husk (formalists) see nothing but the (secondary) cause.

The kernel (intellect) that is not separated from the husks has no means (of escape) from doctor and disease;

(But) when a son of man is born twice, he plants his foot upon the head of (all) causes:

The First Cause is not his religion; the particular (secondary) cause has no enmity against him (does him no harm).

He flies, like the sun, in the (spiritual) horizon with the bride, sincerity; and (material) form (is) as a veil (for him).

Nay, beyond horizons and skies he is without locality, like spirits and intelligences.

Nay, our intellects are the shadows (reflexions) of him: they fall, like shadows, at his feet.

Whenever the mujtahid (legist) knows a Statute, in that case he will not think of (employing) analogy;

(But) in a case where he does not find a Statute, there he will produce an example from analogy.