BEŞİNCİ BAB · ÜÇÜNCÜ FASIL
Regarding the character of the inspired self (nafs-i mülhimen) in the third station,
its states, its manners, its submission to the guide through its own desire and will,
its constant observance of religious commands as it progresses, briefly, abandoning customs
(hal’-i izâr; hal’-i âdât); the parable of how Sharia and Haqiqa are secrets of one another,
its preoccupation with the third name, the return of the self inclined to all things (nafs-i meyyâl)
and the beautiful states of this self, a detailed explanation of removing faults and sins,
the manner of address and visions of the spirituals,
the contraction and expansion (kabz and bast) alternating and replacing one another,
revealing distress and stagnation (inkıbâz) with abasement (züll) and poverty (iftikar),
it explains in ten points the influence and secrets of the third name.