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Today, it is a pleasure to present selections from the book “The Hadîqatu’-l-Haqîqat (The Enclosed Garden of the Truth) by Hakîm Abû'l-Majd Majdûd Sanâ'î of Ghazna, edited and translated by Major J. Stephenson. In this work, the wise poet expounds on how purity of heart can lead us closer to God, who is the Creator of everything. ON GOD AS FIRST CAUSE. “[…] Before thou were in existence, a greater than thou for thy sake brought together the causes that went to form thee; in one place under the heavens by the command and act of God were the four temperaments prepared; their gathering together is a proof of His power; His power is the draughtsman of His wisdom. He who laid down the plan of thee without pen can also complete it without colors; within thee, not in yellow and white and red and black, God has portrayed His work; and without thee He has designed the spheres; of what? Of wind and water and fire and earth. The heavens will not forever leave to thee thy colors, yellow and black and red and white; the spheres take back again their gifts, but the print of God remains forever; He who without colors drew thy outlines will never take back from thee thy soul. By His creative power, He brought thee under an obligation, for His grace has made thee an instrument of expression of Himself; He said, ‘I was a hidden treasure; creation was created that thou might know me; the eye like to a precious jewel through kâf and nûn He made a mouth filled with Yâ în.’ […]”ON PURITY OF HEART. “[…] The high road by which thy spirit and prayers can travel towards God lies in the polishing of the mirror of the heart. The mirror of the heart becomes not free from the rust of infidelity and hypocrisy by opposition and hostility; the burnisher of the mirror is your steadfast faith; again, what is it? It is the unsullied purity of your religion. […]Thou can better see thy image in the mirror of thy heart than in thy clay; break loose from the chain thou has fettered thyself with, for thou will be free when thou have got clear from thy clay; since clay is dark and heart is bright, thy clay is a dustbin and thy heart a rose garden. Whatever increases the brightness of thy heart brings nearer God's manifestation of Himself to thee; because Abû Bakr's purity of heart was greater than others', he was favored by a special manifestation.”
