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2565-2589

  • For their wrangling and sneering and scoffing? Give thanks, since God has imprisoned (restrained) them. 2565
  • Their hands are perverse, their feet perverse, their eyes perverse, their love perverse, their peace perverse, their anger perverse.”
  • For the sake of blind conformity and (for the sake of following) traditional ideas, they set their feet (trampled) on the camels of Reason, this venerable Guide.
  • They were not eager for a guide (pír-khar): they all had become (like) an old donkey (pír khar) from paying hypocritical observance to each other's eyes and ears.
  • God brought the (devout) worshippers from Paradise that He might show unto them the nurslings of Hell-fire.
  • On the meaning of “He let the two seas go to meet one another: between them is a barrier which they do not seek (to cross).”
  • Behold the people of (destined for) the Fire and those of Paradise dwelling in the same shop, (yet) between them is a barrier which they do not seek to cross. 2570
  • He hath mixed the people of the Fire and the people of the Light: between them He hath reared the mountain of Qáf.
  • He hath mixed (them) like earth and gold in the mine: between them are a hundred deserts and caravanserays.
  • (They are) mixed even as pearls and jet beads in the necklace, (soon to be parted) like guests of a single night.
  • One half of the sea is sweet like sugar: the taste sweet, the colour bright as the moon.
  • The other half is bitter as snake's venom: the taste bitter and the colour dark as pitch. 2575
  • Both (halves) dash against one another, from beneath and from the top, wave on wave like the water of the sea.
  • The appearance of collision, (arising) from the narrow body, is (due to) the spirits' being intermingled in peace or war.
  • The waves of peace dash against each other and root up hatreds from (men's) breasts.
  • In other form do the waves of war turn (men's) loves upside down (confound and destroy them).
  • Love is drawing the bitter ones to the sweet, because the foundation of (all) loves is righteousness. 2580
  • Wrath is carrying away the sweet one to bitterness: how should the bitter sort with (be suited to) the sweet?
  • The bitter and the sweet are not visible to this (ocular) sight, (but) they can be seen through the window of the latter end.
  • The eye that sees the end (ákhir) can see truly; the eye that sees (only) the stable (ákhur) is delusion and error.
  • Oh, many the one that is sweet as sugar, but poison is concealed in the sugar.
  • He that is more sagacious (than the rest) will know it by the smell; another (only) when it touches his lips and teeth: 2585
  • Then his lips will reject it before (it reaches) his throat, although the Devil is shouting, “Eat ye!”
  • And to another it will declare (itself) in his throat, while to another it will unmask in his body;
  • And to another it will give burning pain in evacuation: its taste will deal him a blow that pierces his liver.
  • And to another (it will become manifest) after days and months; and to another after death, from the depth of the grave;