not whether I have sufficient stength to face them and to succeed in the end". "There is a test for your strength", replied knowledge, "Open your eyes and fix, your gaze on me. If you see the pen which writes on the heart, you will in my opinion, be able to proceed further on. For he who crosses the phenomenal world, knocks at the door of the celestial world, then sights the pen which writes on hearts". The devotee did as he was advised, but failed to see that pen, because his notion of pen was no other but of a pen of reed or wood. Then knowledge drew his attention, saying: "There's the rub. Do you not know that the furniture of a palace indicates the status of its lord? Nothing in the universe resembles God, therefore his attributes are also transcendental. He is neither body nor is in space. His hand is not a bundle of flesh, bone, and blood. His pen is not of reed or wood, His writing is not[1]
- ↑ Comp. Quran XLII 11: Nothing is like a likeness of Him, He is the hearing, the seeing.
