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4
662-671

  • (If) thou hast not sovereignty over thine own beard, how wilt thou exercise sovereignty over good and evil?
  • Without thy wish, thy beard grows white: be ashamed of thy beard, O thou whose hopes are perverse.
  • He (God) is the Possessor of the Kingdom: whosoever lays his head before Him, to him He gives a hundred kingdoms without the terrestrial world;
  • But the (inward) savour of a single prostration before God will be more sweet to thee than two hundred empires: 665
  • Then thou wilt cry (in humble entreaty), “I desire not kingdoms: commit unto me the kingdom of that prostration.”
  • The kings of the world, because of their evil nature, got no scent of the wine of service (to God);
  • Otherwise, dizzy and dumbfounded like (Ibráhim son of) Adham, without delay they would have dashed their sovereignty to pieces.
  • But (this they do not inasmuch as), for the maintenance of this world, God set a seal upon their eyes and mouths,
  • To the end that throne and crown should be sweet to them, "for" (they say) "we will exact tribute from the rulers of the world." 670
  • If by way of tribute thou amass gold as (though it were) sand, at last it will be left behind thee as an inheritance.