Muntakhab al-tawarikh 78.20.4

78.20.4

“ It was not sleep, but it was unconsciousness ” I saw, that a number of apparitors carried me up to the heavens. And in that place there was a book and a tribunal, and the writers were busy, and a number of constables were present (as in a king’s court on earth), and staff in hand kept hurrying about. And one of the writers taking a leaf in his hand looked at it, and said : “ This is not he.” At that moment hunger opened my eyes, and so I became conscious of my wandering, and a saying, which I used to hear from the mouths of people in the days of my youth came true : “ Yea the world of possibilities is wide, but the power of the First Cause is predominant, and God is predominant over his works.”