Commentary on the Tradition of Mustafá (Mohammed), on whom be peace, that the Qur’án has an exterior (sense) and an interior (sense), and that its interior (sense) has an interior (sense), (and so on) to seven interior (senses).
Know that the words
of the Qur’án have an
exterior (sense), and under the exterior
(sense) an interior (sense), exceedingly
overpowering;
4245. And beneath that inward (sense) a third interior (sense),
wherein all
intellects become lost.
The fourth
interior (sense)
of the Qur’án none has perceived at
all, except God the peerless and
incomparable.
In the Qur’án do not
thou, O son,
regard (only) the exterior: the Devil regards Adam
as naught
but clay.
The exterior (sense) of
the
Qur’án is like a man's person, for his features
are visible, while his spirit is
hidden.
A man's paternal and maternal uncles (may see him) for a hundred years, and of his
(inward)
state not see (so much as) the
tip of a hair.
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