Reading and commentary on the poet's sermon: The fourth analogy: The one who denies the attributes has prepared his heart to protect against heat and cold like a spider's web, and the one who likens Allah to creation has been swallowed by his intellect
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The reader: "The fourth analogy: The one who denies the attributes has prepared his heart to protect against heat and cold like a spider's web, and the one who likens Allah to creation has been swallowed by his intellect, so he tumbles in the land of likening Allah to creation down to the Behemoth"
The Shaykh : down to the Behemoth
The reader: "down to the Behemoth, and the heart of the one who affirms the oneness of Allah circles around the Throne, gazing at the Living who does not die. The fifth analogy".
The Shaykh : The first is the one who denies the attributes: he has built a house for himself, but it is like a spider's web. Yes, and the weakest of houses is the spider's web, as our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, said
The second is the one who likens Allah to creation: he has been swallowed, so he tumbles in the land of likening Allah to creation down to the Behemoth. It appears that the Behemoth is the deep abysses in which one who falls is swallowed and one does not know his state or... So he is not followed, not approved of, and his words are not looked at at all. As for this one, he says that he circles the earth gazing at the Living who does not die. So he is elevated in his heart, looking at Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, with his insight at all times.
The Shaykh : down to the Behemoth
The reader: "down to the Behemoth, and the heart of the one who affirms the oneness of Allah circles around the Throne, gazing at the Living who does not die. The fifth analogy".
The Shaykh : The first is the one who denies the attributes: he has built a house for himself, but it is like a spider's web. Yes, and the weakest of houses is the spider's web, as our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, said
The second is the one who likens Allah to creation: he has been swallowed, so he tumbles in the land of likening Allah to creation down to the Behemoth. It appears that the Behemoth is the deep abysses in which one who falls is swallowed and one does not know his state or... So he is not followed, not approved of, and his words are not looked at at all. As for this one, he says that he circles the earth gazing at the Living who does not die. So he is elevated in his heart, looking at Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, with his insight at all times.