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1519-1543

  • For the teacher is a deputy (of God) and a trustee; and the ease of every trustee is the same as this

  • It is not his (the boy’s) duty to serve his master (teacher) therefore in chastising him the master was not seeking benefit (for himself), 1520

  • But if his father struck him, he struck for his own sake: consequently he was not freed from (responsibility for) paying the blood-price.

  • Behead (your) selfhood, then, O (you who resemble the sword) Dhu ‘l-faqár: become a selfless naughted one like the dervish.

  • When you have become selfless, everything that you do (is a case of) thou didst not throw when thou threwest, (and) you are safe.

  • The responsibility lies on God, not on the trustee: ‘tis set forth plainly in (books of) jurisprudence.

  • Every shop has a different (kind of) merchandise: the Mathnawi is the shop for (spiritual) poverty, O son. 1525

  • In the shoemaker’s shop there is fine leather: if you see wood (there), it is (only) the mould for the shoe.

  • The drapers have (in their shops) silk and dun-coloured cloth: if iron be (there), it is (only to serve) for a yard-measure.

  • Our Mathnawi is the shop for Unity: anything that you see (there) except the One God) is (only) an idol.

  • Know that to praise an idol for the purpose of ensnaring the vulgar is just like (the Prophet’s reference to) “the most exalted Cranes.”

  • He recited it those words) quickly in the Súra (entitled) Wa’l-Najm, but it was a temptation (of the Devil), it was not (really) part of the Súra. 1530

  • Thereupon all the infidels prostrated themselves (in worship): ‘twas a mystery (of Divine Wisdom), too, that they knocked their heads upon the door.

  • After this there is a perplexing and abstruse argument stay with Solomon and do not stir up the demons!

  • Hark, relate the story of the Súfí and the Cadi and the offender who was (so) feeble and wretchedly ill.

  • The Cadi said (to the Súfí), “Make the roof firm, O son, in order that I may decorate it with good and evil.

  • Where is the assailant? Where is that which is subject to vengeance? This man in (consequence of) sickness has become a (mere) phantom. 1535

  • The law is for the living and self-sufficient: where (how) is the law (binding) upon the occupants of the graveyard?”

  • The class (of men) who are headless (selfless) because of (their spiritual) poverty are in a hundred respects more naughted than those dead (and buried).

  • The dead man is naughted (only) from one point of view, namely), as regards loss (of bodily life); the Súfís have been naughted in a hundred respects.

  • (Bodily) death is a single killing, while this (spiritual death) is three hundred thousand (killings), for each one of which there is a blood-price beyond reckoning.

  • Though God hath killed these folk many a time, (yet) He hath poured forth (infinite) stores (of grace) in payment of the blood-price. 1540

  • Every one (of these martyrs) is inwardly like Jirjís (St George): they have been killed and brought to life (again) sixty times.

  • From his delight in (being smitten by) the spear-point of the (Divine) Judge, the killed one is ever burning (in rapture) and crying. Strike another blow!”

  • (I swear) by God, from love for the existence that fosters the spirit, the killed one longs (still) more passionately to be killed a second time.