بخش 23 - کرامات و نور شیخ عبدالله مغربی قدس الله سره

Shaykh ‘Abdullah Maghribí said, “During sixty years I never perceived in night the quality of night.

During sixty years I never experienced any darkness, neither by day nor by night nor from infirmity.”

The Súfís declared his words to be true: “During the night we would follow him

Into deserts filled with thorns and ditches, he going in front of us like the full moon.

Without looking behind him, he would say, (though it was) at night-time, ‘Hark! here is a ditch: turn to the left!’

Then, after a little while, he would say, ‘Turn to the right, because a thorn is before your feet.’

Day would break: we would come to kiss his foot, and his foot would be like the feet of a bride,

No trace of earth or mud on it, none of scratch from thorns or bruise from stones.”

God made the Maghribí a Mashriqí: He made the place of sunset (maghrib) light-producing like the place of sunrise (mashriq).

The light of this one who belongs to the Sun of suns is riding (in majesty): by day he is guarding high and low.

How should that glorious light, which brings thousands of suns into view, not be a guardian?

By his light do thou walk always in safety amidst dragons and scorpions.

That holy light is going in front of thee and tearing every highwayman to pieces.

Know aright (the meaning of the text) on the Day when He (God) will not put the Prophet to shame; read (their) light shall run before them.

Although that (light) will be increased at the Resurrection, (yet) beg of God (to grant thee) trial (of it) here;

For He bestows spiritual light both on cloud and mist, and God best knoweth how to impart (it).