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2146-2170

  • O you who are drunken with the wine (of love), you are on the edge of the roof: sit down or (else) descend, and peace be with you!
  • Every moment when you enjoy (union with the Beloved), deem that delightful moment to be the edge of the roof.
  • Be trembling for (fear of losing) the delightful moment: conceal it like a treasure, do not divulge it.
  • Lest calamity suddenly befall (your) plighted love, take heed, go very fearfully into that place of ambush.
  • The spirit's fear of loss at the moment of enjoyment is (the sign of its) departure (descent) from the hidden roof-edge. 2150
  • If you do not see the mysterious roof-edge, (yet) the spirit is seeing, for it is shuddering (with fear).
  • Every sudden chastisement that has come to pass has taken place on the edge of the turret of enjoyment.
  • Indeed there is no fall except (on) the edge of the roof: (take) warning from (the fate of) the people of Noah and the people of Lot.
  • Explaining the cause of the eloquence and loquacity of that impertinent man in the presence of the Prophet, on whom be peace.
  • When the ray (reflexion) of the Prophet's boundless intoxication struck (the objector), that stupid fellow also became drunken and merry.
  • Of course, in consequence of (drunken) glee he became loquacious: the intoxicated man neglected (to observe) respect and began to rave. 2155
  • Not on every occasion does selflessness (intoxication) work mischief, (but) wine makes the unmannerly person more so.
  • If he (the wine-drinker) be intelligent, he becomes decorous (displays goodly qualities when beside himself); and if he be evil-natured, he becomes worse.
  • But since the majority are evil and reprobate, wine has been forbidden to all.
  • How the Prophet, on whom be peace, explained the cause of his preferring and choosing the (young) man of Hudhayl as commander and chief of the army over the heads of the elders and veterans.
  • Cases are decided by the general rule (not by the exceptions):since the majority are evil, the sword was taken away from the hand of the highwayman.
  • The Prophet said, “O thou who lookest on externals, do not regard him as a youth and unskilled. 2160
  • Oh, there is many a black beard and the man (its owner) old (in wisdom); oh, there is many a white beard with a heart (black) as pitch.
  • Often have I tested his understanding: that youth has shown (the ripe experience of) age in (handling) affairs.
  • O son, the (really) old is the old in understanding: ‘tis not whiteness of the hair in the beard and on the head.
  • How should he (any old man) be older than Iblís? When he lacks understanding, he is good-for-naught.
  • Suppose he is a child: (what matter) when he hath the (life-giving) breath of Jesus (and) is purged of vainglory and vain desire? 2165
  • That whiteness of hair is a proof of maturity to the bandaged eye that hath little penetration.
  • Since the blind imitator recognises nothing but (an external) proof, he continually seeks the way (to the truth) in the (out ward) sign.
  • For his sake we have said, ‘When you wish to plan (anything), choose an elder (to advise you).’
  • He who has escaped from the purdah of blind imitation sees by the light of God that which (really) is.
  • Without proof and without exposition the pure Light cleaves its (the object’s) skin and enters into the middle (the core). 2170