Book I Verses 116 to 122

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The Story: How the king led the physician to the bedside of the sick girl, that he might see her condition. Verses: (102-143)
This Story contains three episodes:

Examining the sick girl, (Verses 102-115)
The mysteries of the sun, (Verses 116-122)
Shamsudd’in, (Verses 123-143)

The Second Episode: The mysteries of the sun, Verses 116-122
The author and the poet of the stories and poems in Persian: Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī
Translator: Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
The commentary of some parts of the poems in Persian is taken from the scholars
of Persian literature:
Badiozzaman Forouzanfar and Karim Zamani
Translator of commentaries: Zeynab Serahati
Narrator and Producer: Zeynab Serahati
Music by: Amirhosein Saam, Sina Jahan Abadi

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The mysteries of the sun

116- The proof of the sun is the sun (himself); if you require the proof, do not avert your face from him!
117- If the shadow gives an indication of sun, the sun himself gives spiritual light every moment. The intellect is like a shadow that gives an indication of shining light of the truth. The light of this sun shines at each instant.
118- The intellect of quasi-shadow like chat in the night-hours, brings sleep to you; when the sun of the truth rises, the intellect like a moon is split apart.
119- There is nothing in the world so wondrous strange as the sun, (but) the Sun of the spirit is everlasting; it has no yesterday, it has no tomorrow or today. The sun of the spirit is eternal.
120- Although the external sun (the sun of the sky) is unique, still it is possible to imagine one resembling it;
121- The spiritual sun has no peer in the mind or externally. The spiritual sun is beyond the comprehensibility, above the perceptible things and beyond the aether, the upper regions of the sky beyond the clouds.
122- Where is room in the imagination for His essence, that the like of Him should come into the imagination?

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