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5
411-420

  • Love is saying very softly into my ear, “To be a prey is better than to be a hunter.
  • Make thyself My fool and be a dupe: renounce the (high) estate of the sun, become a mote!
  • Become a dweller at My door and be homeless: do not pretend to be a candle, be a moth,
  • That thou mayst see (taste) the savour of Life and contemplate the sovereignty hidden in servitude.”
  • In this world you see the shoes upside down: the title of “kings” is conferred on (those who are really) bondsmen. 415
  • Many a one who deserves to mount the scaffold with a halter on his throat—a crowd (gathers) round him, crying, “Behold, an emperor!”
  • (They are) like the tombs of infidels, outwardly (resembling) the robes ofParadise, (while) within (them) is the wrath of God Almighty and Glorious.
  • He (the worldling) has been plastered like the tombs: the veil of self-conceit has been brought before him (drawn over him).
  • Thy miserable nature is plastered with virtues, like a palm-tree of wax without (real) leaves and fruit.
  • Explaining that every one knows the mercy of God, and every one knows the wrath of God; and all are fleeing from the wrath of God and clinging to the mercy of God; but the Most High God has concealed wraths in mercy and mercies in wrath. This is God's mystification and disguise and contrivance to the end that the discerning who see by the Light of God may be separated from those who see (only) the present and the visible; for (He created death and life) that He might try you, which of you is most righteous in his works.
  • One dervish said to another, “Tell (me), what was thy vision of the Presence of God?” 420