The Address

Iraqi style
English

The Address

Listen, seeker of the road to grace: this, in truth, is the way to God. For those who truly see, there are a hundred stations; the first is awakening, the last is oneness with God. Though one could say far more than this, and pierce this meaning with a hundred kinds of speech, still these hundred are the foundation of it all; through them every traveler reaches the goal. These hundred stations fall into ten groups, each one marked off and named apart from the rest.
Explanation: The 'hundred stations' (sad maqam) refers to the Sufi stages of spiritual progress, beginning with 'yaqza' (awakening) and ending in 'tawhid' (divine unity).

Original · Persian

بخش ۲ - خطاب

بشنو،ای طالب ره توفیق در طریق خدا علی التحقیق
صد مقامست پیش اهل دید اولش یقظه،آخرش توحید
گرچه زین بیشتر توان گفتن در معنی به صد بیان سفتن
لیک این صد بود اصول همه سالکان را بود وصول همه
هست این صد مقام بر ده قسم هریک از هم تمیز کرده باسم