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2791-2815

  • Each Amír flung his lance (into the flood), that in the test it might become a barrier against the torrent.

  • Then Mustafá (Mohammed) cast his wand upon it—that sovereign wand that reduced (his foes) to helplessness.

  • The rapid water of the boiling tameless torrent swept away the lances like a bit of straw.

  • All the lances disappeared, while that wand stood on the surface of the water like a sentry.

  • From anxious regard for that wand the mighty torrent turned its face away, and the flood-water departed. 2795

  • When they beheld that great matter wrought by him, those Amírs, (overcome) by dread, confessed—

  • Save three persons, whose rancour was prevailing: they, from disbelief, called him a magician and soothsayer.

  • The kingship that has been tied on (artificially) is weak like that; the kingship that has grown up (naturally) is august like this.

  • If thou didst not see the lances together with the wand, (yet) consider the names of them (the Amírs) and consider the name of him (Mohammed), O noble one!

  • Their names the rapid torrent of death has borne away; his name and his puissant fortune are not dead. 2800

  • For him the drum is always beaten five times (daily): on this wise every day till the Day of Resurrection.

  • “If thou hast intelligence, (thou wilt see that) I have done kindnesses; and if thou art an ass, I have brought the rod for the ass.

  • I will turn thee out of this stable in such wise that I will make thy ears and head bloody with (blows of) the rod.

  • In this stable asses and men are getting no quarter from thy oppression.

  • Lo, I have brought the rod, for correction's sake, for every ass that is not approved. 2805

  • It will become a dragon in subduing thee, for thou hast become a dragon in (thy) deeds and disposition.

  • Thou art a mountain-dragon without mercy; but look at the dragon of Heaven!

  • This rod comes as a taste (sample) from Hell, saying, ‘Ho! take refuge in the Light;

  • Else thou wilt be left helpless in my teeth: there will be no escape for thee through my passes.’

  • This was a rod; it is now a dragon, to the end that thou mayst not say, ‘Where is God's Hell?’” 2810

  • Explaining that one who knows the power of God will not ask, "Where are Paradise and Hell?"

  • God makes Hell to be wheresoever He will: He makes the zenith to be a snare and trap for the bird.

  • Likewise from thy teeth arise pangs of pain, to the end that thou mayst say, “‘Tis Hell and the dragon.”

  • Or He makes the water of thy mouth to be (sweet as) honey, that thou mayst say, “’Tis Paradise and the robes (of Paradise).”

  • He makes sugar to grow from the roots of the teeth, that thou mayst know the power of the ordinance of the (Divine) decree.

  • Do not, then, bite the innocent with thy teeth: bethink thee of the stroke that is not to be guarded against. 2815