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553-577

  • (But) though ’tis foolish to moan now, (yet) assuredly heedlessness is (even) more foolish than that (tardy supplication).
  • Continue to sob thus, even foolishly, crying, “Regard the base (sinners), O Almighty One!
  • Whether it be late or early, Thou art omnipotent: when did anything escape Thee, O God?” 555
  • The King of (that ye) may not grieve for what hath escaped you —how should the object of (your) desire vanish from (the range of) His power?
  • How the bird attributed its being caught in the trap to the artifice and cunning and hypocrisy of the ascetic; and how the ascetic answered the bird.
  • The bird said, “This is a fit punishment for one who listens to the beguiling talk of ascetics.”
  • “Nay,” said the ascetic; “it is a fit punishment for the greedy wretch who incontinently devours the property of orphans.”
  • Afterwards it (the bird) began to lament in such wise that the trap and the fowler trembled at the grief (which it displayed),
  • Crying, “My back is broken by the contradictions (conflicting motives) in my heart: come, O Beloved, rub Thy hand on my head. 560
  • Under Thy hand my head hath a (great) relief (from pain): Thy hand is a miracle in bestowing favour.
  • Do not take away Thy shadow (protection) from my head: I am restless, restless, restless.
  • (All) sorts of sleep have quitted mine eye in my passion for Thee, O Thou who art envied by the cypress and the jasmine.
  • Though I am not deserving (of Thy favour), what matter if for a moment Thou ask after an unworthy one (who is) in a (great) anguish?”
  • What right (to Thy favour), forsooth, had Not-being, to which Thy grace opened such doors? 565
  • (Thy) bounty touched (embraced) the mangy earth and put in its bosom ten pearls of the light of sensation—
  • Five outward senses and five inward senses—whereby the dead semen was made Man.
  • Repentance without Thy blessing, O sublime Light, what is it but to laugh at the beard of repentance?
  • Thou dost tear the moustaches of repentance piecemeal: repentance is the shadow and Thou art the shining moon.
  • O Thou by whom my shop and dwelling is ruined, how shall not I wail when Thou rackest my heart? 570
  • How shall I flee (from Thee), since without Thee none liveth, and without Thy lordship no slave hath existence?
  • Take my life, O Source of my life, for without Thee I have become weary of my life.
  • I am in love with the art of madness, I am surfeited with wisdom and sagacity.
  • When (the veil of) shame is rent asunder, I will publicly declare the mystery: how much (more) of this self-restraint and griping pain and tremor?
  • I have become concealed in shame, like the fringe (sewn on the inside of a garment): I will spring forth of a sudden from beneath this coverlet. 575
  • O comrades, the Beloved has barred the ways: we are lame deer and He a hunting lion.
  • (For one who is) in the clutch of a fierce bloodthirsty lion where is any resource except resignation and acquiescence?