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Questions
in Shabistari's Garden of Mystery |
Iqbal |
| 1 |
First
of all I am intrigued about my thought – what
is it which we call thinking? |
Q.1 |
| 2 |
What
kind of thought is needed on the path, why is it
sometimes a virtue and sometimes a sin? |
Q.1 |
| 3 |
What am I? Tell me what ‘I’ means. What
is the meaning of ‘travel into yourself’? |
Q.5 |
| 4 |
Of what sort is this traveler who is the wayfarer?
Of whom shall I say that this person has attained
completion? |
Q.7 |
| 5 |
Who was it that at last became familiar with the
secret of Oneness? Who is the wise one that has
true awareness? |
Q.9 |
| 6 |
If
the knower and the known are one pure essence, what
are the aspirations of this handful of earth? |
Q.3 |
| 7 |
What
point does the claim, ‘I am the Creative Truth’
imply? Do you think that this mystery was mere nonsense? |
Q.8 |
| 8 |
How
can a mere creature be called to be “united”?
How can the creature achieve travelling and journey? |
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| 9 |
What
is the union of the contingent and the necessary?
What are near and far, more and less? |
Q.2 |
| 10 |
What
is this ocean whose shore is speech? What is that
pearl which is found in its depth? |
Q.2
(modified) |
| 11 |
What
is that part which is greater than its whole? What
is the way to find that part? |
Q.6 |
| 12 |
How did the temporal and eternal separate so that
one became the world, and the other God? |
Q.4 |
| 13 |
What does the mystic mean by those of his –
what does he indicate by “eye” and “lip”?
What does he seek by “cheek”, “curl”
and “mole”? He, to wit, who is in “stations”
and “states”? |
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| 14 |
What
meaning is attached to wine, candle, and beauty? What
is assumed in being a haunter of taverns? |
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| 15 |
Idols,
girdles and Christianity in this discourse are all
unbelief; if not, say what they are. |
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thanks to Iqbal Academy Pakistan
