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The Book of Ighan
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Now step into the path of indubitable Truth with the eye of positive Knowledge and the wings of actual Certainty. "Say, God sent it down, then leave them to amuse themselves with their vain discourse" (K. S. 6). Thus thou mayest be accounted of those companions of whom it is said: "As for those who say Our Lord is God and who act steadfastly; the Angels shall descend unto them" (K. S. 41). Then shalt thou witness all these mysteries with thine own eye.

O my brother, take the step of the Soul, that thou mayest in a moment traverse the distant valleys of separation and remoteness, enter the Rizwan of Union and Nearness and in a breath attain to the Divine Souls. These stages can never be travelled nor the destination reached by the step of the body. Peace be upon those who follow the Truth in truth and stand in the path of Command upon the shore of Knowledge in the Name of God. This is the meaning of the blessed verse: "I swear by the Lord of the Easts and the Wests" (K. S. 70), for there is a place of dawning and a place of setting for every one of these mentioned Suns. As the doctors of commentary were not informed of the real meaning of these Suns, they failed to interpret this verse. Some asserted that as the sun rises every day from a point different from that of the preceding day, therefore He hath mentioned ("easts and wests") in the plural. Others have written that the four seasons are in