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1767-1791

  • Even so, O Khwája who art reviling on account of affliction and poverty and distress and tribulations,
  • No doubt this renunciation of sensuality gives bitter pain, but ’tis better than the bitterness of being far from God.
  • If fighting (against the flesh) and fasting are hard and rough, yet these are better than being far from Him who inflicts tribulation.
  • How should pain endure for a single moment when the Giver of favours says to thee, “How art thou, O My sick one?” 1770
  • And (even) if He say (it) not, because thou hast not the understanding and knowledge (needed) for it, yet thy inward feeling (of supplication) is (equivalent to His) inquiring (after thee).
  • Those beauteous ones who are spiritual physicians turn towards the sick to inquire (after them);
  • And if they be afraid of (incurring) disgrace and (loss of) reputation, they devise some means and send a message;
  • Or if not, that (care for the sick) is pondered in their hearts: no beloved is unaware (forgetful) of his lover.
  • O thou who desirest (to hear) a wondrous tale, read the story of them that play the game of love. 1775
  • Thou hast been boiling mightily during (all) this long time, (and yet), O dried meat, thou hast not even become half-cooked.
  • During a (whole) life-time thou hast seen the justice and jurisdiction (of God), and then (after all) thou art more ignorant than the blind.
  • Whoever serves Him as a pupil becomes a master, (but) thou hast gone backwards, O blind fool!
  • Verily thou hast learned nothing from thy parents, nor hast thou taken a lesson from night and day.
  • Parable.
  • A (Súfí) gnostic asked an old Christian priest, “Sire, art thou the more advanced in age, or thy beard?” 1780
  • He replied, “Nay; I was born before it: I have seen much of the world without a beard.”
  • He (the Súfí) said, “Thy beard has turned white, it has changed, (but) thy evil disposition has not become good.”
  • It (thy beard) was born after thee and (yet) it has surpassed thee: thou art so dry (vain and unprofitable) because of thy passion for tharíd.
  • Thou art (still) of the same complexion with which thou wast born: thou hast not taken one step forward.
  • Still thou art (as) sour buttermilk in the churn: in sooth thou hast not extracted any oil (butter) from it. 1785
  • Still thou art (as) dough in the jar of clay, though thou hast been a (whole) lifetime in the fiery oven.
  • Thou art like a herb on a hillock: (thy) foot (is fixed immovably) in the earth, though thy head is tossed (to and fro) by the wind of passion.
  • Like the people of Moses in the heat of the Desert, thou hast remained forty years in (the same) place, O foolish man.
  • Daily thou marchest rapidly till nightfall and findest thyself (still) in the first stage of thy journey.
  • Thou wilt never traverse this three hundred years' distance so long as thou hast love for the calf. 1790
  • Until the fancy (illusion) of the calf went out of their hearts, the Desert was to them like a blazing whirlpool.