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  • Whoever seeks the (mere) name, if he is entrusted (with a confidential mission) he is hopeless and in distraction, even as thou art.

  • Why dost thou stick to the name ‘tree,’ so that thou art left bitterly disappointed and ill-fortuned?

  • Pass on from the name and look at the attributes, in order that the attributes may show thee the way to the essence.”

  • The disagreement of mankind is caused by names: peace ensues when they advance to the reality (denoted by the name). 3680

  • How four persons quarrelled about grapes, which were known to each of them by a different name.

  • A certain man gave a dirhem to four persons: one of them (a Persian) said, “I will spend this on angúr.”

  • The second one was an Arab: he said, “No, I want ‘inab, not angúr, O rascal!”

  • The third was a Turk; and he said, “This (money) is mine: I don't want ‘inab, I want uzum.”

  • The fourth, a Greek, said, “Stop this talk: I want istáfíl.”

  • These people began fighting in contention with one another, because they were unaware of the hidden meaning of the names. 3685

  • In their folly they smote each other with their fists: they were full of ignorance and empty of knowledge.

  • If a master of the esoteric had been there, a revered and many-languaged man, he would have pacified them;

  • And then he would have said, “With this one dirhem I will give all of you what ye wish.

  • When without deceit ye surrender your hearts (to me), this dirhem will do all this for you.

  • Your one dirhem will become four—the result desired: four enemies will become one through unanimity. 3690

  • What each one of you says produces strife and separation; what I say brings you agreement.

  • Therefore be ye mute, keep silence, that I may be your tongue in speech and talk.”

  • (Even) if your words appear uniform (seem to express an agreement), in effect they are the source of contention and anger.

  • Borrowed (accidental) heat produces no (essential) effect; natural heat hath (its own) effect.

  • If you have made vinegar hot by means of fire, (still) when you drink it, it will undoubtedly increase the coldness (of your constitution), 3695

  • Because that (artificially produced) heat of it is exotic: its fundamental nature is coldness and tartness.

  • And (on the other hand), though grape-syrup be frozen, my son, it will add heat to the liver when you drink it.

  • Hence the Shaykh's hypocrisy is better than our sincerity, for the former arises from (spiritual) insight, while the latter arises from (spiritual) blindness.

  • From the Shaykh's discourse comes union (concord); the words of the corporealists (materialists) bring separation (discord).

  • As (for example) Solomon, who sped (on his prophetic mission) from God, and who knew the language of all birds— 3700

  • In the time of his just sway the deer made friends with the leopard and ceased from war.