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2605-2629

  • The palace-door was fastened from the inside, for he was fatigued by people's visits. 2605
  • Suddenly he was awakened by a man, (but) when he opened his eyes the man vanished.
  • He said (to himself), “No one had entrance to the palace: who is he that has shown such impudence and boldness?”
  • Then he went round and searched in order to find the trace of that one who had become hidden (from sight).
  • Behind the door he espied a luckless man who was hiding his face in the door and the curtain.
  • “Hey,” he cried, “who are you? What is your name?” “(To speak) plainly,” said he, “my name is Iblís the damned.” 2610
  • He (Mu‘áwiya) asked, “Why did you take pains to awaken me? Tell the truth, don't tell me what is reverse and contrary (to the fact).”
  • How Iblís gave Mu‘áwiya, may God be well-pleased with him, a fall, and practiced dissimulation, and how Mu‘áwiya answered him.
  • He said, “The time for prayer is (all but) come to an end: you must run quickly to the mosque.
  • Mustafá (Mohammed) said, boring the pearl of the idea, ‘Make haste to perform your devotions before the time is past.’”
  • He (Mu‘áwiya) said, “Nay, nay; ’tis not thy purpose to be my guide unto any good.
  • (If) a thief come secretly into my dwelling-place and say to me, ‘I am keeping watch,’ 2615
  • How shall I believe that thief? How should a thief know the recompense and reward for good works?”
  • How Iblís again made answer to Mu‘áwiya.
  • He said, “At first I was an angel: I traversed the way of obedience (to God) with (all my) soul.
  • I was the confidant of them that follow the path (of devotion): I was familiar with them that dwell by the Throne of God.
  • How should (one's) first calling go out of (one's) mind? How should (one's) first love go forth from (one's) heart?
  • If in travel you see Anatolia or Khutan, how should love of your own country go from your heart? 2620
  • I too have been one of those drunken with this wine: I have been a lover at His court.
  • They cut my navel in (predestined me from birth to) love of Him: they sowed love of Him in my heart.
  • I have seen good days from Fortune: I have drunk the water of (Divine) Mercy in (my) spring-time.
  • Was it not the hand of His bounty that sowed me? Was it not He that raised me up from non-existence?
  • Oh, many is the time I have received kindness from Him and walked in the rose-garden of (His) approval. 2625
  • He would lay the hand of mercy on my head, He would open (let flow) from me the fountains of grace.
  • Who found milk for me in the season of my infancy? Who rocked my cradle? He.
  • From whom did I drink milk other than His milk? Who nourished me except His providence?
  • The disposition which has entered with the milk into (their) being—how can it be discharged (expelled) from folk?