God, the Beloved par excellence, I. 3; compared to the bezel on a ring, I. 10; addressed as Bride, V. 8; dwells in the soul, XVIII. 11; unattainable by human exertion, XX. 1, Add. Notes, ibid.; desired to display his beauty, IV. 2, XXIII. 7; the only real agent, XXVI. 9; transcends and pervades the universe, XXXVII. 2; centre of the universe, Add. Notes, XXII. 10; unknowable save by himself, XXIII. 5, Add. Notes, ibid.

Grace, ebbs and flows in the soul, XVIII. 1

Hātifī, I. 3

Headlessness, = self-annihilation, II. 3, XXXVII. 16

Heaven, an obstacle to union, II. 12

Henna, V. 8

Hidden saints, VIII. 10

Hidden treasure, VIII. 3; in a mystical sense, IV. 2

Hoopoe, II. 6

Hope and Fear, the two wings of, XLVIII. 10

Humility, I. 9

Ideas, the Platonic theory of, XII. 1

Illumination, IV. 10

Imagination, directs all human actions, XV. 17

Incarnation, XXV. 12

Intoxication, = ecstasy, I. 9

‘Irāqi ‘Ajamī, XXXI. 4

‘Irāqi ‘Arabī, XXXI. 4

Izāfat, VII. 7, X. 8, XXVIII. 7, XXIX. 1; dropped, XXV. 23, XXXVII. 13 (footnote), XLII. 10

Jacob, XVI. 8

Jāmī, I. 3

Jealousy, of God, V. 7, XXV. 12

Jesus, IV. 9, XII. 11, Add. Notes, XXXIX. 11

Joseph, XV. 12, XVI. 8, 22, XLIII. 6

Journey, the mystic’s, XIX. 1–4, XXVII. 7

Kaus̤ar, XI. 9

Ḳor’ān, quoted or referred to, I. 4, 5, 6; II. 5, 6; IV. 6, 9; V. 6, VI. 13, IX. 9, XIII. 14, XV. 12, XVI. 6, 8; XVII. 1, 10; XXIII. 6, 7; XXIV. 8, XXV. 8, 12; XXVI. 1, XXIX. 3, 12; XXXII. 2, XXXIX. 8, 9 (footnote); XL. 3, XLII. 1, 10; XLIII. 4, XLIV. 4, XLVII. 10; Add. Notes, XVII. 8, XXIII. 6, XXXI. 8

Korah, VI. 1, XLIII. 4

Lailā, I. 3, X. 10

Learning, useless in love, VIII. 7

Love, implies loss of selfhood, I. 1; opposed to Reason, IV. 10, IX. 19, XXXVII. 13; expressed in music, XV. 5; compared to a player on the rebeck, XVI. 22; does not admit of cure, XXXIII. 4; transforms the earthly nature, XLIII. 4

Lunacy, a mark of divine favour, I. 3

Magianism, VI. 13

Majnūn, I. 3

Man, the final cause of creation, I. 10, XVII. 2; above the angels, IX. 3; the microcosm, II. 2, IV. 3; compounded of Being and Not-being, II. 7. IV. 3; XLVII. 9; must die to the world, I. 4, II. 2; a plaything of Deity, XI. 6; compared to a lute, XVI. 22; his worth dependent on his ideal, XVIII. 6; the meeting-point of two worlds, XXXVI. 16; homeless in the world, XLVI. 7; half angel, half beast, Add. Notes, IX. 3

Manṣūr Ḥallāj, VI. 12, XVII. 1, XXV. 17, XXXVIII. 1

Merv, XXII. 8

Metre, I. 6, VIII. 7, XI. 4, 15; XXII. 5, XXXIX. 5

Mohammed, his night-journey to heaven, I. 6; identified with Universal Reason, IX. 5

Moon, a frequent metaphor for the Beloved, VII. 1; splitting of the moon, IX. 7–8

Moses, II. 5, XVI. 15, XLIII. 4

Moth and Candle, XXI. 4

Mount Ḳāf, XVII. 7

Music, XV. 5, XLI. 3

Najmu’ddīn Kubrā, XVI. 10

Nīmfātḥa, XI. 4

Niz̤āmī, I. 3, X. 10

Niz̤āmī ‘Arūẓī, I. 7

Nominativus pendens, VII. 7

Not-being, reflects the qualities of Being, II. 7, XL. 6

Obedience, XLIV. 13

‘Omān, sea of, XII. 10

‘Othmān, XVI. 22

Outward form, an illusion, XIX. 8

Pain, synonymous with love, III. 3; inflicted as a probation, V. 7, XXVIII. 7

Partridge, hunted by the falcon, II. 9

Passions, compared to lions, XV. 16

Pearls, legend as to the origin of, VIII. 5

Persian oaths, XV. 8

Pharaoh, XVI. 15

Phenomena, intoxicated with the wine of love, I. 15; derive their existence from the Ideal, IX. 16; compared to the tresses of the Beloved, XV. 11, XVI. 10

Plurality, a phantom, XXVI. 8

Poverty, spiritual, VI. 1

Prayer, IV. 11, V. 5, VI. 5

Pre-existence of the soul, XVII. 1

Prepositions, doubled, IX. 11; omitted, XXII. 9, XXVI. 2, Add. Notes, XI. 4

Present Conditional, XXV. 14

Procrastination, XIII. 9

Pronoun repeated, VI. 4, 10; XXXVI. 5

Prosody, XXI. 2

Proverbs, Arabic, I. 9, XIII. 9, XIV. 10, 12; XVIII. 6, XXVIII. 8; Add. Notes, XXII. 9, XXVIII. 8, XXXII. 3

Quietism, XI. 8, XXXVI. 15; Add. Notes, ibid.

Rabāb (rebeck), XVI. 22

Rai, XXII. 8

Rāmīn, I. 7

Reason, opposed to love, IV. 10, IX. 19, XXXVII. 13; annihilated in union, XL. 8

Religions indifferent, VIII. 8, XV. 2

Reserve, doctrine of, XXV. 16, Add. Notes, ibid.

Riẓvān, XXXI. 5

Roc, XVII. 7

Rose, the celestial, XIII. 8

Rubies, coloured by the sun, XXVII. 7

Rūm, XXII. 8

Rustam, XVI. 11

Sa‘dī, IX. 1

Saints, advantage of associating with, XLII. 1; unrecognised, VIII. 10

Ṣalāḥu’ddīn Zarkūb, II. 14

Sanā’ī, XXII. 1

Saqsīn, XXXI. 4, Add. Notes, ibid.

Saturn, II. 10

Sea, of divine love, I. 8; of Absolute Being, VIII. 5, IX. 10, 11

Self, the true, XXVI. 1

Self-annihilation, I. 4, II. 3, IV. 11, VI. 1, VII. 2, XXVII. 8, XLII. 3

Silence, I. 18, XXVI. 9, XXXVI. 17

Sīmurgh, XVII. 7

Slavery, the badge of, XIII. 10

Sleep, of phenomenal existence, XXXVI. 5

Solomon, II. 5–6

Sorcery, XXI. 1

Soul, entangled in the Beloved’s tresses, XXI. 4, XXVIII. 5; identical with God, XVII. 11; reluctant to enter the world, XXXV. 10; obscured by pride, XXXVI. 13; suffers tribulation, V. 7; cannot reveal divine mysteries, XIII. 16; remembers her heavenly origin, XVII. 1, XXXIX. 5; soul of the world, VI. 12; compared to a child in the cradle, III. 4; to a bird, X. 7, XVI. 3, XXIX. 6, etc.; to a mirror, XI. 7, XIII. 15, XXVIII. 2; to a window, XXXII. 3; to a frenzied camel, XXXVII. 13, XLV. 6; to the Ka‘ba, XLIII. 10; to Jesus, IV. 9

Ṣūfī, XXIX. 4; must live in the present, XIII. 9

Ṣūfiism, definition of, Add. Notes, XXXVI. 15

Sulaimān Khān, the Bābī, XVI. 10

Tabrīz, VI. 15

Talismans, XV. 4

Tashdīd, VIII. 9, IX. 19, XVI. 7, XXIII. 5, XXXVI. 2, XL. 5

Traditions, of the Prophet, I. 1, 4; IV. 2, VI. 1, VIII. 1, 10; IX. 3, XI. 9, XV. 3, XVII. 2, 11; XVIII. 6, XXV. 12, XXVII. 7, XXX. 2, XXXV. 8; Add. Notes, I. 1, VI. 2

Trinity, the Christian, VI. 13

Union, beyond the reach of intellect, XIX. 9; involves identification of subject and object, XXV. 9

Unity, of creeds, VIII. 8, XV. 2; of lover and Beloved, XXXVIII. 1; a sea of blood, XXXIV. 5

‘Unṣurī, I. 7

Veils, IX. 14, Add. Notes, ibid.

Waisa, I. 7

Wāmiq, I. 7

Wine, an emblem of the Divinity, XLI. 3

World, the phenomenal, VIII. 9; within the eye, XXXV. 3; regarded as a cube, XXXIX. 10; compared to a dead mistress, XIII. 6; to a dyeing-vat, XXX. 6; to a mirror, XL. 6; to an old woman, XLII. 4

Yellow, = pale, XXXVII. 10

Zāl, XVI. 11

Zuhra, V. 6

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