English    Türkçe    فارسی   

2
2249-2258

  • Open thine eyes well and look on me, that thou mayst behold the Light of God in man.”
  • Báyazíd gave heed to those mystic sayings, and put them in his ear as a golden ring. 2250
  • Through him (the old man), Báyazíd came into an increase (of spiritual endowment): the adept at last attained unto the end.
  • How the Prophet-God bless and save him! –– perceived that the cause of that person’s sickness was irreverence in prayer.
  • When the Prophet saw the sick man, he dealt sweetly and tenderly with that familiar friend.
  • He became alive when he saw the Prophet: you might say, that moment created him.
  • He said, “Sickness has given me this good fortune, that this Sultan has come to my side at morn,
  • So that health and well-being have accrued to me from the arrival of this King who is without retinue. 2255
  • O happy pain and sickness and fever! O blessed anguish and wakefulness in the night!
  • Lo, in (my) old age God of His grace and bounty hath bestowed on me such a sickness and malady!
  • He too hath given me pain in the back, so that every midnight I cannot help springing up quickly from sleep.