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1058-1082

  • (Or) like a promise (full) of guile and lying words, of which the end is shameful though its beginning is splendid.
  • Afterwards he (the Siddíq) took the hand of Bilál, who was (thin) as a toothpick from the blows inflicted by the tooth of tribulation.
  • He became (like) a toothpick and found his way into a mouth: he was hastening towards a man of sweet tongue. 1060
  • When that (sorely) wounded one beheld the face of Mustafá (Mohammed), he fell down in a swoon, he fell on his back.
  • For a long time he remained unconscious and beside himself: when he came to himself, he shed tears for joy.
  • Mustafá clasped him to his bosom: how should any one know the bounty that was bestowed on him?
  • How is it with a piece of copper that has touched the elixir? How with an insolvent who has hit upon an ample treasure?
  • (’Twas as though) a fish parched (for want of water) fell into the sea, (or) a caravan that had lost its way struck the right road. 1065
  • If the words which the Prophet addressed (to him) at that moment should fall upon (the ears of) Night, it (Night) would cease from being night;
  • Night would become day radiant as dawn: I cannot express (the real meaning of) that mystic allocution.
  • You yourself know what (words) a sun, in (the sign of) Aries, speaks to the plants and the date-palms;
  • You yourself, too, know what the limpid water is saying to the sweet herbs and the sapling.
  • The doing of God towards all the particles of the world is like the words (spells) breathed by enchanters. 1070
  • The Divine attraction holds a hundred discourses with the effects and secondary causes, without (uttering) a word or (moving) a lip.
  • Not that the production of effects by the Divine decree is not actual; but His production of effects thereby is inconceivable to reason.
  • Since reason has learned by rote (from the prophets) in regard to the fundamentals, know O trifler, that it (also) learns by rote in regard to the derivatives.
  • If reason should ask how the aim may be (attained), say, “In a manner that thou knowest not, and (so) farewell!”
  • How Mustafá (Mohammed), on whom be peace, reproached the Siddíq, may God be pleased with him, saying, “I enjoined thee to buy in partnership with me: why hast thou bought for thyself alone?” and his (the Siddíq's) excuse.
  • He (the Prophet) said, “Why, O Siddíq, I told thee to make me the partner in (thy) generosity.” 1075
  • He replied, “We are two slaves in thy street: I set him free for thy sake.
  • Keep me as thy slave and loyal friend: I want no freedom, beware (of thinking so)!
  • For my freedom consists in being thy slave: without thee, tribulation and injustice are (inflicted) on me.
  • O thou who through being the chosen (Prophet) hast brought the (whole) world to life and hast made the common folk to be the elect, especially me,
  • In my youth my spirit used to dream that the orb of the sun salaamed to me, 1080
  • And lifted me up from earth to heaven: by mounting (so) high I had become its fellow-traveller.
  • I said (to myself), ‘This is an hallucination and absurd: how should absurdity ever become actuality?’