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  • Crops and vineyards and vines are standing black: there is no moisture in the earth, neither up nor down. 3245
  • The people are dying from this drought and torment by tens and hundreds like fish far from the water.
  • Thou art taking no pity on the Moslems; (yet) the true believers are kinsmen and one body (of) fat and flesh.
  • The pain of one part of the body is the pain of all (its parts), whether it be the hour of peace or war.”
  • He (the ascetic) replied, “In your eyes this is a drought, (but) to my eye this earth is like Paradise.
  • I am beholding in every desert and everywhere ears of corn in abundance, reaching up to the waist; 3250
  • (I see) the wilderness full of ears of corn (tossed) in waves by the east-wind, (so that it is) greener than the leek.
  • By way of trial I am putting my hand thereon: how should I remove my hand and eye?
  • Ye are friends of Pharaoh, (who is) the body, O base people: hence the Nile seems to you to be blood.
  • Quickly become friends of Moses, (who is) the intellect, in order that the blood may remain not and ye may behold the river-water.
  • (If) an injustice is proceeding from (is being done by) thee towards thy father, that father will become (as) a (biting) cur in thine eyes. 3255
  • That father is not a cur: ’tis the effect of (thy) injustice that such mercy appears to thy sight (as) a cur.
  • Since the brethren (of Joseph) had envy and anger, they were regarding Joseph as the wolf.
  • When thou hast made peace with thy father, anger is gone; that currishness departs, and thy father at once becomes thy friend.
  • Explaining that the whole world is the form of Universal Reason, (and that) when by trespassing you act unjustly towards Universal Reason, in most cases the aspect of the world increases your vexation, just as when you show ill-feeling to your father the aspect of your father increases your vexation and you cannot (bear to) look on his face, though before that he will have been the light of your eye and the comfort of your soul.
  • The whole world is the form of Universal Reason, which is the father of whosoever is a follower of the (Divine) Word.
  • When any one shows excessive ingratitude to Universal Reason, the form of the universe appears to him (as) a cur accordingly. 3260
  • Make peace with this Father, abandon disobedience, that the water and clay (the world) may appear (to thee as) a carpet of gold.
  • Then the Resurrection will become thy present state (immediate experience): heaven and earth will be transfigured before thee.
  • Since I am ever at peace with this Father, this world is like Paradise in my sight.
  • At every moment (appears) a new form and a new beauty, so that from seeing the new (visions) ennui dies away.
  • I see the world to be full of bounty—the waters constantly gushing from the springs. 3265
  • The noise of their water is coming into mine ear: my inner consciousness and intelligence are being intoxicated.
  • (I see) the boughs dancing like penitents, the leaves clapping their hands like minstrels.
  • The gleam of the mirror is flashing through the (cover of) felt cloth: think how it will be if the mirror (itself) be displayed!
  • I am not telling one (mystery) out of thousands, because every ear is filled with a doubt.