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1068-1092

  • 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?’
  • When I beheld thee I beheld myself: blessings on that mirror goodly in its ways!
  • When I beheld thee, the absurd became actual for me: my spirit was submerged in the Glory.
  • When I beheld thee, O Spirit of the world, verily love for this (earthly) sun fell from mine eye. 1085
  • By thee mine eye was endowed with lofty aspiration: it looks not on the (earthly) garden save with contempt.
  • I sought light: verily I beheld the Light of light. I sought the houri: verily (in thee) I beheld an object of envy to the houri.
  • I sought a Joseph comely and with limbs (white as) silver: in thee I beheld an assembly of Josephs.
  • I was (engaged) in searching after Paradise: from every part of thee a Paradise appeared (to me).
  • In relation to me this is praise and eulogy; in relation to thee this is vituperation and satire, 1090
  • Like the praise given to God by the simple shepherd in the presence of Moses the Kalím—
  • ‘I will seek out Thy lice, I will give Thee milk, I will stitch Thy shoon and lay them before Thee.’