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to one color (oneness); such and everyday languages where
that, by falling in this vat the both attribute different meanings
diversity of colors vanishes to the same terms such as
and everyone gains divine ‘color’.
ipseity, and hence deserves to Religious Language as a
be prostrated by angels: Univocal Language
➢ The baptism of Allah is In this section the aim is to
the dyeing-vat of Hú reckon the poems wherein
(the Absolute God):
therein (all) piebald Rumi has considered religious
things become of one language as univocal with
everyday language.
color. (Rumi, 2013, 1345, In other words, it would be
Vol. 2) sufficient to find correlated
➢ When he (the mystic)
falls into the vat, and poems and Verses and show
you say to him, “Arise,” that they have used the same
terms identically, that is, with
he says in rapture, “I the same meaning.
am the vat: do not Here are some examples:
blame (me).” (Ibid)
➢ That “I am the vat” is Recite (the text), Every
the (same as) saying day He is (engaged) in
some affair: do not
“I am God”: he has deem Him idle and
the color of the fire,
albeit he is iron. (Ibid) inactive. (Ibid, 3071, V. 1)
The first hemistich of this
In sum, all the above-
mentioned poems are evidence verse refers to the following
for the equivocality of religious verse (Ayah) from the Holy
