[228] The “two worlds,” spiritual and material, future and present.
[229] The poet’s “love,” is still God. This section purports to be an excursus on the following distich of the poet Sanā’ī, who died A.H. 576 (A.D. 1180):—
“Why leavest thou thy guild, its rules or faith or sin?
Why quittest thou thy mistress, be she plump or thin?”
[230] Reflections on God’s unity, and the plurality of created being.
[231] Qur’ān xix. 41, &c.
[232] Anecdotes, Chap. vi.
[233] “Life” and “coral,” in Persian “jān” and “merjān.”
[234] Men from moral, dawn from material light.
[235] Qur’ān lv. 29.