Cennet-i Zât is the witnessing (mushāhada) of the Beauty of Divine Oneness (Ahadi Cemâl). It is the paradise of the ruh (the spirit). (Kāshānī, 41; Jāmiʿ, 80)
cer'â'/zevrâ' )) / sie
If they desire what is distant, it is before them
If they turn towards the hard sands
Wherever they settle and make camp, the bird
Its young are in their encampments
What is meant by zevrâ (fuzak) is the rank of the pole (kutub). It is called zevrâ because it inclines towards the correct and legitimate direction. Their 'before'... that is, he was ahead of them not by his deeds, but by his thought and qalb (the heart). For he is incapable of more. And the incapable one can do nothing but wish. Cer'â (hard sands) are the maqāmāt (spiritual stations) of struggle (mujāhada), of swallowing hardships. For it is traversing the veils.
Enâhâ (if they remain), that is, they continue to stay, for they did not have the strength to bear these difficulties. Then, with his words, he refers to cer'â. That is, he continues to remain in the stations of hardship and struggle in order to attain his goal. He says: Thoughts are directed only to places in accordance with the rule of the origin. The ʿārif (gnostic) is inclined to eternally realize the unveiling of the divine names. (Tercümān, 180)
(See also: maqām / maqāmāt)
