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2200-2224

  • Every one seeks a plaster for his pain, and in consequence of this a whole world is set in order. 2200
  • God made of fear the pillar (support) of this world: because of fear every one has devoted himself to work.
  • Praise be to God that on this wise He has made a fear to be the architect and (means for the) improvement of the world.
  • All these (people) are afraid of (losing) good and (suffering) evil: none that is afraid is himself frightened by himself.
  • In reality, then, (the creator of their fear and) the ruler over (them) all is that One who is near, though He is not perceived by the senses.
  • He is perceived in a certain hiding-place (the heart), but not perceived by the sense of this house (the body). 2205
  • The sense to which God is manifested is not the sense of this world; it is another.
  • If the animal sense perceived those (Divine) forms (ideas) an ox or an ass would be the Báyazíd of the time.
  • He who made the body to be the theatre in which every spirit is manifested, He who made the Ark to be the Buráq (steed) of Noah,
  • He, if He will, makes (what is) a very ark in (its ordinary) character to be a (destructive) flood for you, O seeker of light.
  • At every moment, O man of little means, He has conjoined with your grief and gladness an ark (to save you) and a flood (to destroy you). 2210
  • If you do not perceive the ark and the sea (flood) before you, (then) consider (whence come) the tremors in all your limbs.
  • Since his (the trembling man's) eyes do not perceive the source of his fear, he is affrighted by diverse kinds of phantasy.
  • (For example), a drunken boor strikes a blind man with his fist: the blind man thinks it is a kicking camel,
  • Because at that moment he heard a camel's cry: the ear, not the eye, is the mirror for the blind.
  • (But) then again the blind man says, “No, it was a stone (which some one threw at me), or perhaps it was (a brick) from an echoing dome.” 2215
  • It was neither this nor that nor that: He who created fear produced these (phantasies).
  • Certainly fear and trembling are (produced) by another: nobody is frightened by himself, O sorrowful man.
  • The miserable philosopher calls fear “imagination” (wahm): he has wrongly understood this lesson.
  • How should there be any imagination without reality? How should any false coin pass (into circulation) without a genuine one?
  • How should a lie fetch a price (have value) without truth? Every lie in both worlds has arisen from truth. 2220
  • He (the liar) saw the currency and prestige enjoyed by truth: he set going (circulated) the lie in hope of (its enjoying) the same.
  • O (incarnate) lie, whose fortune is (derived) from veracity, give thanks for the bounty and do not deny the truth!
  • Shall I speak of the philosopher and his mad fancy, or of His (God's) ships (arks) and seas (floods)?
  • Nay, (I will speak) of His arks, which are the spiritual counsel (given by the saints); I will speak of the whole: the part is included in the whole.