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• 08:55, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 25 (Created page with "They tell a story of a lover who for years languished in the absence of his beloved, burning in the fire of their separation. Overwhelmed by love, his heart emptied of patience, and his body grew weary of the soul. He regarded life in separation as hypocrisy, and he was in extreme agony from horizon to horizon. How many days he found no comfort in his beloved's absence, and how many nights he did not sleep from the pain. His body became as thin as a sigh due to weakness,...")
• 08:37, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian25 (Created page with "حکایت کنند عاشقی سالها در هجر معشوقش جان میباخت و در آتش فراقش میگداخت از غلبۀ عشق صدرش از صبر خالی ماند و جسمش از روح بیزاری جست و زندگی در فراق را از نفاق میشمرد و از آفاق بغایت در احتراق بود چه روزها که از هجرش راحت نجسته و بسا شبها که از دردش نخفته از ضعف بدن چون...")
• 08:25, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 24 (Created page with ""And the traveler in this valley, in the creation of Truth, sees absolutely no opposition or contradiction. In everything, he recites: 'Then return [your] vision [to the sky], do you see any breaks?'. He sees justice in oppression, and observes grace in justice. He sees concealed knowledge in ignorance, and in knowledge, he apprehends a hundred thousand clear and manifest wisdoms. He breaks the cage of the body and desires, and finds companionship in the breath of the d...")
• 08:18, 18 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 23 (Created page with "Indeed, if the lover safely passes the beak of the falcon of love, with the divine support, he enters the realm of gnosis. He moves from doubt to certainty, from the darkness of delusion to the light of guidance. His spiritual eye opens, and he becomes engaged with his Beloved in earnest and sincere longing. He opens the door to truth and closes the doors to symbolism. In this state, he accepts divine decree with contentment, sees peace in conflict, and perceives the mea...")
• 18:10, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail40 (Created page with "Yea, to the beetle a sweet fragrance seemeth foul, and to the man sick of a rheum a pleasant perfume is as naught. Wherefore, it hath been said for the guidance of the ignorant: Cleanse thou the rheum from out thine head And breathe the breath of God instead.")
• 18:09, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail39 (Created page with "And if a nightingale soar upward from the clay of self and dwell in the rose bower of the heart, and in Arabian melodies and sweet Íránian songs recount the mysteries of God — a single word of which quickeneth to fresh, new life the bodies of the dead, and bestoweth the Holy Spirit upon the moldering bones of this existence—thou wilt behold a thousand claws of envy, a myriad beaks of rancor hunting after Him and with all their power intent upon His death.")
• 18:08, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail38 (Created page with "Thus it is that certain invalid souls have confined the lands of knowledge within the wall of self and passion, and clouded them with ignorance and blindness, and have been veiled from the light of the mystic sun and the mysteries of the Eternal Beloved; they have strayed afar from the jewelled wisdom of the lucid Faith of the Lord of Messengers, have been shut out of the sanctuary of the All-Beauteous One, and banished from the Ka’bih of splendor. Such is the worth of...")
• 18:07, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail37 (Created page with "In like manner, colors become visible in every object according to the nature of that object. For instance, in a yellow globe, the rays shine yellow; in a white the rays are white; and in a red, the red rays are manifest. Then these variations are from the object, not from the shining light. And if a place be shut away from the light, as by walls or a roof, it will be entirely bereft of the splendor of the light, nor will the sun shine thereon.")
• 18:06, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail36 (Created page with "It is clear to thine Eminence that all the variations which the wayfarer in the stages of his journey beholdeth in the realms of being, proceed from his own vision. We shall give an example of this, that its meaning may become fully clear: Consider the visible sun; although it shineth with one radiance upon all things, and at the behest of the King of Manifestation bestoweth light on all creation, yet in each place it becometh manifest and sheddeth its bounty according t...")
• 18:00, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail34 (Created page with "If thou be a man of communion and prayer, soar up on the wings of assistance from Holy Souls, that thou mayest behold the mysteries of the Friend and attain to the lights of the Beloved, “Verily, we are from God and to Him shall we return.”")
• 17:58, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail35 (Created page with "After passing through the Valley of knowledge, which is the last plane of limitation, the wayfarer cometh to The Valley of Unity and drinketh from the cup of the Absolute, and gazeth on the Manifestations of Oneness. In this station he pierceth the veils of plurality, fleeth from the worlds of the flesh, and ascendeth into the heaven of singleness. With the ear of God he heareth, with the eye of God he beholdeth the mysteries of divine creation. He steppeth into the sa...")
• 17:55, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail33 (Created page with "After passing through the Valley of knowledge, which is the last plane of limitation, the wayfarer cometh to The Valley of Unity and drinketh from the cup of the Absolute, and gazeth on the Manifestations of Oneness. In this station he pierceth the veils of plurality, fleeth from the worlds of the flesh, and ascendeth into the heaven of singleness. With the ear of God he heareth, with the eye of God he beholdeth the mysteries of divine creation. He steppeth into the sa...")
• 17:53, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail32 (Created page with "At this hour the morn of knowledge hath arisen and the lamps of wayfaring and wandering are quenched. Veiled from this was Moses Though all strength and light; Then thou who hast no wings at all, Attempt not flight. If thou be a man of communion and prayer, soar up on the wings of assistance from Holy Souls, that thou mayest behold the mysteries of the Friend and attain to the lights of the Beloved, “Verily, we are from God and to Him shall we return.”")
• 17:51, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail31 (Created page with "Wherefore, relevant to this, Khájih ‘Abdu’lláh — may God the Most High sanctify his beloved spirit — hath made a subtle point and spoken an eloquent word as to the meaning of “Guide Thou us on the straight path,” which is: “Show us the right way, that is, honor us with the love of Thine Essence, that we may be freed from turning toward ourselves and toward all else save Thee, and may become wholly Thine, and know only Thee, and see only Thee, and think of...")
• 17:49, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail30 (Created page with "Such is the state of the wayfarers in this Valley; but the people of the Valleys above this see the end and the beginning as one; nay, they see neither beginning nor end, and witness neither “first” nor “last.” Nay rather, the denizens of the undying city, who dwell in the green garden land, see not even “neither first nor last”; they fly from all that is first, and repulse all that is last. For these have passed over the worlds of names, and fled beyond the...")
• 17:48, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail29 (Created page with "Now if the lover could have looked ahead, he would have blessed the watchman at the start, and prayed on his behalf, and he would have seen that tyranny as justice; but since the end was veiled to him, he moaned and made his plaint in the beginning. Yet those who journey in the garden land of knowledge, because they see the end in the beginning, see peace in war and friendliness in anger.")
• 17:47, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail28 (Created page with "Indeed, his words were true, for he had found many a secret justice in this seeming tyranny of the watchman, and seen how many a mercy lay hid behind the veil. Out of wrath, the guard had led him who was athirst in love’s desert to the sea of his loved one, and lit up the dark night of absence with the light of reunion. He had driven one who was afar, into the garden of nearness, had guided an ailing soul to the heart’s physician.")
• 17:46, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail27 (Created page with "And there he beheld his beloved with a lamp in her hand, searching for a ring she had lost. When the heart-surrendered lover looked on his ravishing love, he drew a great breath and raised up his hands in prayer, crying: “O God! Give Thou glory to the watchman, and riches and long life. For the watchman was Gabriel, guiding this poor one; or he was Isráfíl, bringing life to this wretched one!”")
• 17:45, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail26 (Created page with "At last, the tree of his longing yielded the fruit of despair, and the fire of his hope fell to ashes. Then one night he could live no more, and he went out of his house and made for the marketplace. On a sudden, a watchman followed after him. He broke into a run, with the watchman following; then other watchmen came together, and barred every passage to the weary one. And the wretched one cried from his heart, and ran here and there, and moaned to himself: “Surely thi...")
• 17:44, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail25 (Created page with "There was once a lover who had sighed for long years in separation from his beloved, and wasted in the fire of remoteness. From the rule of love, his heart was empty of patience, and his body weary of his spirit; he reckoned life without her as a mockery, and time consumed him away. How many a day he found no rest in longing for her; how many a night the pain of her kept him from sleep; his body was worn to a sigh, his heart’s wound had turned him to a cry of sorrow. H...")
• 17:43, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail24 (Created page with "The wayfarer in this Valley seeth in the fashionings of the True One nothing save clear providence, and at every moment saith: “No defect canst thou see in the creation of the God of Mercy: Repeat the gaze: Seest thou a single flaw?” He beholdeth justice in injustice, and in justice, grace. In ignorance he findeth many a knowledge hidden, and in knowledge a myriad wisdoms manifest. He breaketh the cage of the body and the passions, and consorteth with the people of t...")
• 17:23, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian24 (Created page with "و اگر عاشق بتأییدات خالق از منقار شاهین عشق بسالمت بگذرد در مملکت معرفت وارد شود و از شکّ بیقین آید و از ظلمت ضاللت هوی بنور هدایت تقوی راجع گردد و چشم بصیرتش باز شود و با حبیب خود براز مشغول")
• 17:21, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail23 (Created page with "Kindle the fire of love and burn away all things, Then set thy foot into the land of the lovers.")
• 17:20, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian23 (Created page with "نار عشقی برفروز و جمله هستیها بسوز پس قدم بردار و اندر کوی عشّاقان گذار")
• 17:18, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 22 (Created page with "Indeed, one must burn away the veils of the egotistical and satanic self in the fire of love so that the soul becomes subtle and pure, capable of perceiving the ranks of the "Master of all worlds".")
• 17:15, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Gail22 (Created page with "Wherefore must the veils of the satanic self be burned away at the fire of love, that the spirit may be purified and cleansed and thus may know the station of the Lord of the Worlds.")
• 17:14, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/Persian22 (Created page with "پس باید بنار عشق حجابهای نفس شیطانی سوخته شود تا روح برای ادراک مراتب سیّد لوالک لطیف و پاکیزه گردد")
• 17:08, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 21 (Created page with "It has ensnared a hundred thousand innocents in its trap, and wounded a hundred thousand sages with its arrow. Every flush you see in the world, know it to be the mark of its wrath, and every pallor you see on the cheek, count it from its poison. It gives no remedy but annihilation and treads no path but the valley of non-existence. Yet its poison is sweeter than honey in the mouth of the lover, and its annihilation is more beloved to the seeker than a hundred thousand e...")
• 15:40, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 20 (Created page with "Love, in every moment, burns a world and in every land where knowledge is exalted, it lays waste. In its kingdom, existence has no place, and in its realm, the wise have no authority. The leviathan of love swallows the literate of reason, and the clever ones of knowledge get scattered. It can drink the seven seas but its heart's thirst remains unquenched, ever crying out "Is there more?" It becomes estranged from itself and turns aside from all that is in the world. Wit...")
• 15:38, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 19 (Created page with "Love does not accept existence and does not desire life; it sees life in death and seeks honor from humiliation. It takes great intelligence to be worthy of the fervor of love, and many a head must be ready to fall into the snare of the Beloved. Blessed is the neck that falls into His noose and fortunate is the head that is laid down in His path of love. Therefore, become alienated from the alien self, so you may find the Stranger, and pass beyond the mortal clay, so yo...")
• 15:36, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 18 (Created page with "The lover is not concerned with anything and sees no harm from any adversity; you would see them feeling cold in the fire and finding dryness in the sea. The sign of a lover is that you see them feeling cold in hellfire, and the sign of a knower (a gnostic, or 'arif) is that you see them feeling dry in the sea.")
• 15:34, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 17 (Created page with "Oh my brother, until you journey to the Egypt of love, you will not attain the beauty of the beloved Joseph. Until you, like Jacob, move beyond the physical eye, you will not open the inner eye. And until you burn in the fire of love, you will not mix with the waters of longing.")
• 15:33, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 16 (Created page with "The vehicle of this valley is pain, and without pain, this journey will never end. In this stage, the lover has no thought other than the beloved, and seeks refuge in nothing other than the loved one. In every moment, they would willingly sacrifice a hundred lives for the sake of their beloved, and at every step, they would lay a thousand heads at the feet of their friend.")
• 15:30, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 15 (Created page with "At this time, the seeker is unaware of themselves and others. They know neither ignorance nor knowledge, neither doubt nor certainty. They recognize neither the dawn of guidance nor the evening of misguidance. They flee from both disbelief and faith, and the lethal poison is pleasing to them. This is what Attar said: "Disbelief is for the disbeliever, and faith is for the faithful, A grain of your pain is for Attar's heart."")
• 15:27, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 14 (Created page with "And if in this journey, with the help of the Creator, they find a sign from the unmarked friend, and they hear the scent of the lost Joseph from the good news of the Unique One, they would immediately step into the valley of love and melt in the fire of love. In this city, they would be drawn towards the sky, and the sun of longing would rise, igniting the fire of love. And when the fire of love blazes, it completely burns the harvest of reason.")
• 15:25, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 13 (Created page with "In this journey, the seeker will sit on any soil, live in any land, seek the beauty of the beloved from every angle, and look for companionship in every region. They will join any gathering and accompany any secret, hoping that they might see the secret of the beloved in one of them, or observe the beauty of the beloved in one of their forms.")
• 15:24, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 12 (Created page with "A sincere seeker seeks nothing but union with the sought-after, and for the lover, nothing but union with the beloved should be the goal. This seeking of the seeker will not be achieved unless they sacrifice all that they have, meaning all that they have seen, heard, and understood. They must negate everything with the negative 'la' (no) so as to reach the city of the soul, which is the city of 'illa' (only). It requires a strong determination to strive for Him, and a g...")
• 15:22, 16 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 11 (Created page with "Indeed, searching for the Lord of Lords in the dirt may seem repugnant to the wise, but it is a testament to the utmost seriousness and seeking. As the saying goes, "Whoever seeks something earnestly, finds it."")
• 19:16, 6 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 10 (Created page with "The measure of seeking should be taken from the passionate Majnun. It is said that one day Majnun was seen sifting through the dirt and shedding tears. People asked him, "What are you doing?" He replied, "I am searching for Layla." They said, "Woe to you! Layla is of a pure spirit, and you are searching for her in the dirt?" He answered, "I am striving everywhere in search of her; perhaps I will find her somewhere."")
• 19:15, 6 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 9 (Created page with "In this journey, the seeker reaches a station where they see all beings bewildered in the pursuit of their beloved. They see the Jacobs who have been left wandering in the quest for Joseph. They observe a world of lovers running after their beloved and a universe of enamored ones rushing towards their desired ones. In every moment, they witness a command, and in every hour, they become informed of a secret. This is because their heart has been detached from both worlds a...")
• 19:13, 6 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 8 (Created page with "The condition for these worshipers is that they must purify their hearts, which are the source of the divine treasury, from all imprints. They should turn away from imitation, which is a result of the influence of their parents and ancestors. They must also close the doors of friendship and enmity with all the people of the earth.")
• 19:06, 6 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 7 (Created page with "The first valley is the valley of seeking. The vehicle of this valley is patience, as the traveler will not reach anywhere in this journey without patience and will not attain their goal. They must never become disheartened, even if they strive for a hundred thousand years and do not see the beauty of their beloved. They should not wither, for the seekers of the Kaaba of annihilation rejoice in the glad tidings of "We will surely guide them to Our ways" (Quran 29:69). Th...")
• 19:05, 6 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 6 (Created page with "And after that, the stages of the seeker's journey from the earthly abode to the divine homeland have been determined as seven ranks. As some have mentioned seven valleys and some have mentioned seven cities. They have said that the seeker will not enter the ocean of nearness and union until they migrate from the self and complete these journeys, and they will not taste the incomparable wine.")
• 19:04, 6 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 5 (Created page with "And my life, O beloved, if you were to taste these fruits from the greenery of these ears of grain that grew in the lands of knowledge when the lights of the essence manifested in the mirrors of the names and attributes, the longing would take the reins of patience and perseverance from your hand, and your soul would tremble from the flashes of lights. It would attract you from the earthly homeland to the original divine homeland in the axis of meanings and elevate you t...")
• 18:58, 6 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 4 (Created page with "And it is what the nightingale of oneness sang in the gardens of divine aid, saying: "And it appears on the tablet of your heart, the subtle inscriptions of the secrets of 'Fear Allah, and Allah will teach you' (Quran 2:282). And the bird of your spirit remembers the ancient sanctuaries and soars in the vast space. So walk the paths of your Lord humbly with the wing of longing, and harvest from the fruits of intimacy in the orchards of 'Eat of every kind of fruit' (Quran...")
• 18:50, 6 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 3 (Created page with "And after that, I have heard what the leaves of gnosis sang on the branches of the Lote-tree of your heart, and I recognized what the dove of certainty cooed upon the boughs of the tree of your heart. It is as if I found the fragrance of perfume from the garment of your love and grasped the fullness of your meeting in observing your book. When I reached your signs in your annihilation in Allah and your subsistence in Him, and your love for Allah's beloved and the manifes...")
• 18:49, 6 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 2 (Created page with "And I send prayers and blessings upon the first sea branching from the sea of identity, and the first dawn that shone over the horizon of oneness, and the first sun that rose in the sky of eternity, and the first flame ignited from the lamp of primordial existence in the niche of unity. He who was Ahmad in the celestial realm of the highest, and Muhammad among the foremost in proximity, and Mahmoud in the realm of the devoted, and whatever names he is called by in the he...")
• 17:43, 6 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT4 1 (Adding the GPT4 column to be able to add translations in the 4th column)
• 17:21, 6 May 2023 Bahamut19 talk contribs created page Seven Valleys/GPT41 (GPT4 from May 6, 2023)
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