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  • I repent of the words which I raised up: (now), without words, I have mixed for thee a medicine 2455
  • Which I will place upon thy raw sore, that it may be assuaged, or that thy sore and thy beard may be burnt (destroyed entirely) unto everlasting,
  • To the end that thou mayst know that He is omniscient, O enemy: He gives to everything that which befits it.
  • When hast thou done wrong and when hast thou wrought evil but thou hast seen (suffered) the effect befitting it?
  • When hast thou once sent a good deed to Heaven but the like thereof has followed after?
  • If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. 2460
  • When thou art observant and dost grasp the cord (of apprehension), thou needest not the coming of the Resurrection (to reveal the ultimate effects).
  • He that truly knows (the meaning of) an indication does not need to have it plainly declared to him.
  • This tribulation befalls thee from (thy) stupidity in not understanding the subtle hints and indications.
  • When thy heart has been blackened and darkened by wickedness, understand! One ought not to become besotted here;
  • Otherwise, in sooth, that darkness will become an arrow (of woe), and the penalty of (thy) besottedness will overtake thee. 2465
  • And if the arrow come not, ’tis from (God's) bounty; not because of (His) not seeing the defilement (of thy sin).
  • Hark, be observant if thou wouldst have a (pure) heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action.
  • And if thou hast an aspiration greater than this, (and if) the enterprise goes beyond (the spiritual rank of) the observant,
  • [Explaining that the earthen body of man, like iron of fine substance, is capable of becoming a mirror, so that therein even in this world Paradise and Hell and the Resurrection et cetera are shown by immediate vision, not in the mode of phantasy.]
  • Then, though thou art dark-bodied like iron, make a practice of polishing, polishing, polishing,
  • That thy heart may become a mirror full of images, (with) a lovely silverbreasted (form reflected) therein on every side. 2470
  • Although the iron was dark and devoid of light, polishing cleared away the darkness from it.
  • The iron saw (suffered) the polishing and made its face fair, so that images could be seen therein.
  • If the earthen body is gross and dark, polish it—for it is receptive to the polishing instrument—
  • In order that the forms of the Unseen may appear in it, and that the reflexion of houri and angel may dart into it.
  • God hath given thee the polishing instrument, Reason, to the end that thereby the leaf (surface) of the heart may be made resplendent. 2475
  • Thou, O prayerless man, hast put the polisher (Reason) in bonds and hast loosed the two hands of sensuality.
  • If bonds be put on sensuality, the hand of the polisher (Reason) will be untied.
  • A piece of iron that became a mirror of the Unseen—all the forms (of the Unseen) would be shot into it.
  • (But) thou madest (thy heart) dark and didst let the rust into thy nature: this is (the inner meaning of) they work evil on the earth.