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  • O ye that are forgetful, arise and love! That is the wind of Joseph: smell (its perfume)! 850
  • Come, O (master of the) bird-speech of Solomon, sing the song of every bird that comes.
  • Since God hath sent thee to the birds, He hath instructed thee in the note of every bird.
  • To the necessitarian bird speak the language of necessitarianism ; to the bird whose wings are broken speak of patience (quietism).
  • Keep the patient bird happy and free from harm; to the bird (resembling the) ‘Anqá recite the descriptions of (Mount) Qáf.
  • Bid the pigeon beware of the falcon; to the falcon speak of forbearance and being on its guard (against acting unjustly). 855
  • And as for the bat that is left destitute (of spiritual illumination), make it to consort and to be familiar with the Light.
  • Cause the warlike partridge to learn peace; to the cocks display the signs of dawn.
  • Even so proceed from the hoopoe to the eagle, and show the way. And God best knoweth the right course.
  • How Bilqís was freed from her kingdom and was intoxicated with longing for the Faith, and how at the moment of her (spiritual) emigration the regard of her desire became severed from the whole of her kingdom except from her throne.
  • When Solomon uttered a single whistling note to the birds of Sabá he ensnared them all,
  • Except, maybe, the bird that was without spirit or wings, or was dumb and deaf, like a fish, from the beginning. 860
  • Nay, I have spoken wrongly, for if the deaf one lay his head before the inspiration of the Divine Majesty, it will give to him (the power of) hearing.
  • When Bilqís set out (from Sabá) with heart and soul, she felt remorse too for the bygone time,
  • She took leave of her kingdom and riches in the same way as those lovers (of God) take leave of honour and disgrace (reputation).
  • Those charming pages and handmaidens (of hers seemed) to her eye (loathly) as a rotten onion.
  • For love’s sake, orchards and palaces and river-water seemed to her eye (contemptible as) a dunghill. 865
  • Love, in the hour of domination and anger, makes the pleasing ones to become hideous to the eye.
  • Love’s jealousy causes every emerald to appear as a leek: this is the (inner) meaning of Lá.
  • O (thou who givest) protection , (the meaning of) “There is no god but He” is that the moon should seem to thee a black kettle.
  • No wealth, no treasury, and no goods or gear were being grudged by her (Bilqis) except her throne.
  • Then Solomon became aware of (this feeling in) her heart, for the way was open from his heart to hers. 870
  • He that hears the voice of ants will also hear the cry from the inmost soul of them that are afar.
  • He that declares the mystery of “an ant said” will also know the mystery of this ancient dome.
  • From afar he (Solomon) discerned that to her (Bilqís) who was following the path of resignation ‘twas bitter to part with her throne.
  • If I explain the reason why she had that love and complaisance to her throne, it (the discourse) will become (too) long.