Ascent To Heaven Of Self Naughted

If you stand in the rank of those who make the (spiritual) ascension, not-being (selfnaughtedness) will bear you aloft, like Buráq.
’Tis not like the ascension of a piece of earth (an earthly being) to the moon; nay, but like the ascension of a cane to sugar.
’Tis not like the ascension of a vapour to the sky; nay, but like the ascension of an embryo to rationality. The steed of not-being (self-naughtedness) became a goodly Buráq: it brings you to (real) existence, if you are non-existent (self-naughted). Its hoof brushes the mountains and seas till it puts the world of sense perception behind. Set your foot into the ship and keep going quickly, like the soul going towards the soul's Beloved. (With) no hands and no feet, go to Eternity in the same fashion as that in which the spirits sped from non-existence.
If there had not been somnolence (dullness and inattention) in the hearer's hearing, the veil of logical reasoning would have been torn asunder in the discourse.