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1291-1300

  • O (you who are like the) old woman, how long will you strive with the (Divine) destiny? Seek the cash now: let bygones be.
  • Since your face hath no hope of (acquiring) beauty, you may either put rouge (on it) or, if you wish, ink.
  • Story of the sick man of whose recovery the physician despaired.
  • A certain sick man went to a physician and said, “Feel my pulse, O sagacious one,
  • That by (feeling) the pulse you may diagnose the state of my heart, for the hand-vein is connected with the heart.”
  • Since the heart is invisible, if you want a symbol of it, seek (it) from him who hath connexion with the heart. 1295
  • The wind is hidden from the eye, O trusty (friend), (but) see it in the dust and in the movement of the leaves,
  • (And observe) whether it is blowing from the right or from the left: the movement of the leaves will describe its condition to you.
  • (If) you know not intoxication of the heart (and ask) where (it is), seek the description of it from the inebriated (languid) eye.
  • Since you are far from (knowing) the Essence of God, you may recognise the description of the Essence in the Prophet and (his) evidentiary miracles.
  • Certain secret miracles and graces (proceeding) from the elect (Súfí) Elders impress the heart (of the disciple); 1300