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434-458

  • We who blindly brandish staffs cannot help breaking lamps.
  • We, like deaf men, without having heard a single thing spoken (to us), are answering idly from our own surmise. 435
  • We have not taken warning from Moses, who was made shamefaced by disbelief in a Khizr,
  • Notwithstanding (that he had) an eye that sped aloft, and the light of his eye was piercing heaven.
  • O Moses (of this age), through foolishness the eye of a mill-mouse has fanatically set itself against thine eye.”
  • The Shaykh said, “I forgive all that talk and palaver: it is lawful to you.
  • The secret of this (matter) was that I besought God: consequently He showed me the right way, 440
  • And said, ‘Though that dinar is little, yet (the payment of) it is dependent on the boy's outcry.
  • Until the halwá-selling boy weeps, the sea of (My) mercy is not aroused’.”
  • O brother, the child (boy) is the child (pupil) of your eye: know surely that (the gaining of) your desire is dependent on (tears of) distress.
  • If you wish that that robe of honour (which you desire) should come (to you), then make the child (pupil) of your eye weep over your body.
  • How a certain person frightened an ascetic, saying, “Weep little, lest thou become blind.”
  • A comrade in the work (of religion) said to an ascetic, “Weep little, lest thine eye come to harm.” 445
  • The ascetic said, “The case is not outside of (admits only) two (alternatives): the eye will see, or it will not see, that (Divine) Beauty.
  • If it see the Light of God, what is there to grieve about? How little are two eyes (to him that is) in union with God!
  • And if it shall not see God, let it go! Let such a miserable eye become blind!”
  • Do not grieve for your eye when that Jesus is yours; do not go to the left (but to the right), that he may give you two right (sound) eyes.
  • The Jesus of your spirit is present with you: beg aid from him, for he is a goodly aider; 450
  • But do not every moment lay on the heart of (that) Jesus the unprofitable work of (providing for) a body full of bones,
  • Like the fool whom we mentioned in the story for the sake of the righteous.
  • Seek not you from your Jesus the life of the body, ask not from your Moses the wish of a Pharaoh.
  • Burden not your heart with thoughts of livelihood; livelihood will not fail: be (constant in attendance) at the (Divine) Court.
  • This body is a tent for the spirit, or like an ark for Noah. 455
  • When the Turcoman is there, he will find a tent, especially when he is one held in honour at the Court (of God).
  • Conclusion of the story of the coming to life of the bones at the prayer of Jesus, on whom be peace!
  • Jesus pronounced the Name of God over the bones on account of the young man’s entreaty.
  • For the sake of that foolish man the decree of God gave life to the form which those bones had possessed.