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1068-1092

  • He (the dead man) was made living by Jesus, but died again. Happy is he that gave up his life to this ‘Jesus.’

  • I am the staff in the hand of my ‘Moses’: my ‘Moses’ is hidden, while I am visible in presence.

  • For the true believers I become a bridge across the sea; for Pharaoh, again, I become a dragon.” 1070

  • O son, do not regard this staff alone, for the staff would not be like this without the hand of God.

  • The waves of the Flood too were a staff which, from being aggrieved, devoured the pomp of the votaries of magic.

  • If I should enumerate the staves of God, I should tear to pieces (expose and confound) the hypocrisy of these followers of Pharaoh;

  • But leave them to browse on this sweet poisonous grass for a few days.

  • If there be not the power and dominion of Pharaoh, whence shall Hell obtain nutriment? 1075

  • Fatten him, then kill him, O Butcher; for the dogs in Hell are without food.

  • If there were no adversary and enemy in the world, then the anger in men would die.

  • That anger is Hell: it needs an adversary that it may live; else Mercy would kill it.

  • Then clemency would remain without any vengeance or evil: then how would the perfection of Kingship be (manifested)?

  • Those disbelievers have made a laughing-stock of the parables and clear exposition of them that glorify (God). 1080

  • Make (them) a laughing-stock, if thou wishest (O disbeliever): how long wilt thou live, O carcase, how long?

  • Rejoice, O lovers (of God), in supplication at this same door, for it is opened today.

  • Every pot-herb, (such as) garlic and caper, has a different bed in the garden.

  • Each with its own kind in its own bed drinks moisture (is watered) for the purpose of becoming mature.

  • Thou, who art a saffron-bed, be saffron and do not mix with the others. 1085

  • Drink the water, O saffron, that thou mayst attain to maturity: thou art saffron, thou wilt attain to that halwá (sweetmeat).

  • Do not put thy muzzle into the bed of turnips, for it (the turnip) will not agree with thee in nature and habit.

  • Thou art planted in one bed, it (the turnip) in another bed, because God's earth is spacious,

  • Particularly that earth (the unseen world) where, on account of its breadth, demon and genie are lost in their journey.

  • In (seeking to measure) those seas and deserts and mountains imagination and fancy fail entirely. 1090

  • In (comparison with) the deserts thereof, this desert (the material world) is like a single hair in a full sea.

  • The still water whose course is hidden is fresher and sweeter than running brooks,