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5
984-1008

  • That he may know that those robes were a loan: ’twas a ray from the Sun of Being.”
  • (All) that beauty and power and virtue and knowledge have journeyed hither from the Sun of Excellence. 985
  • They, the light of that Sun, turn back again, like the stars, from these (bodily) walls.
  • (When) the Sunbeam has gone home, every wall is left dark and black.
  • That which made thee amazed at the faces of the fair is the Light of the Sun (reflected) from the three-coloured glass.
  • The glasses of diverse hue cause that Light to seem coloured like this to us.
  • When the many-coloured glasses are no more, then the colourless Light makes thee amazed. 990
  • Make it thy habit to behold the Light without the glass, in order that when the glass is shattered there may not be blindness (in thee).
  • Thou art content with knowledge learned (from others): thou hast lit thine eye at another's lamp.
  • He takes away his lamp, that thou mayst know thou art a borrower, not a giver.
  • If thou hast rendered thanks (to God for what thou hast received) and made the utmost exertion (in doing so), be not grieved (at its loss), for He will give (thee) a hundred such (gifts) in return;
  • But if thou hast not rendered thanks, weep (tears of) blood now, for that (spiritual) excellence has become quit of (has abandoned) the ungrateful. 995
  • He (God) causeth the works of the unbelieving people to be lost; He maketh the state of the believing people to prosper.
  • From the ungrateful man (his) excellence and knowledge disappear, so that never again does he see a trace of them.
  • (His feelings of) affinity and non-affinity and gratitude and affection vanish in such wise that he cannot remember them;
  • For, O ingrates, (the words) He causeth their works to be lost are (signify) the flight of (every) object of desire from every one who has obtained his desire (in this world),
  • Excepting the thankful and faithful who are attended by fortune. 1000
  • How should the past fortune bestow strength (on its possessors)? ’Tis the future fortune that bestows a special virtue.
  • In (obedience to the Divine command) “Lend,” make a loan (to God) from this (worldly) fortune, that thou mayst see a hundred fortunes before thy face.
  • Diminish a little for thine own sake this (eating and) drinking, that thou mayst find in front (of thee) the basin of Kawthar.
  • He who poured a draught on the earth of faithfulness, how should the prey, fortune, be able to flee from him?
  • He (God) gladdens their hearts, for He maketh their state to prosper: He restoreth their (worldly) entertainment after they have perished. 1005
  • (He says), “O Death, O Turcoman who plunderest the village, give back whatsoever thou hast taken from these thankful ones.”
  • He (Death) gives it back; (but) they will not receive it, for they have been endowed with the goods of spiritual life.
  • (They say), “We are Súfís and have cast off our (bodily) mantles: we will not take (them) back after we have gambled (them) away.