Pearl-Scattering Senses

 Besides these five (physical) senses there are five (spiritual) senses: those (latter) are like red gold, while these (physical) senses are like copper.

Come to the Sun's rising-place: after that, wheresoever thou goest, thou art possessed of goodly splendour.
After that, wheresoever thou goest, ’twill become the place of sunrise: (all) the places of sunrise will be in love with thy place of sunset.
Thy bat-like senses are running towards the sunset; thy pearl-scattering senses are faring towards the sunrise.
The way of (physical) sense-perception is the way of asses, O rider: have shame, O thou that art jostling (vying) with asses!
Besides these five (physical) senses there are five (spiritual) senses: those (latter) are like red gold, while these (physical) senses are like copper.
In the bazaar where they (the buyers) are expert, how should they buy the copper sense like (as though it were) the sense of gold?
The bodily sense is eating the food of darkness; the spiritual sense is feeding from a Sun.
O thou that hast borne the baggage of thy senses to the Unseen, put forth thy hand, like Moses, from thy bosom.
O thou whose attributes are (those of) the Sun of Divine knowledge, while the sun in heaven is confined to a single attribute,
Now thou becomest the Sun, and now the Sea; now the mountain of Qáf, and now the ‘Anqá.
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