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  • There his soul was singing what had befallen (it), saying, “If they would but let me stay here,
  • Happy would be my soul in this garden and springtide, drunken with this (far stretching) plain and mystic anemone-field.
  • Without wing or foot I would be journeying, without lip or tooth I would be eating sugar.
  • With a memory and thought free from brain-sickness, I would frolic with the dwellers in Heaven.
  • With eye shut I would be seeing a (whole) world, without a hand I would be gathering roses and basil.” 2095
  • The water-bird (his soul) was plunged in a sea of honey— the fountain of Job, to drink and wash in,
  • Whereby Job, from his feet to the crown of his head, was purged of afflictions (and made pure) like the light of the sunrise.
  • If the Mathnawí were as the sky in magnitude, not half the portion of this (mystery) would find room in it,
  • For the exceeding broad earth and sky (of the material world) caused my heart, from (their) narrowness (in comparison with the spiritual universe), to be rent in pieces;
  • And this world that was revealed to me in this dream (of the minstrel) has spread wide my wings and pinions because of (its vast) expansion. 2100
  • If this world and the way to it were manifest, no one would remain there (in the material world) for a single moment.
  • The (Divine) command was coming (to the minstrel)—“Nay, be not covetous: inasmuch as the thorn is out of thy foot, depart”—
  • (Whilst) his soul was lingering there in the spacious demesne of His (God's) mercy and beneficence.
  • How the heavenly voice spoke to ‘Umar, may God be well-pleased with him, while he was asleep, saying, “Give a certain sum of gold from the public treasury to the man who is sleeping in the graveyard.”
  • Then God sent such a drowsiness upon ‘Umar that he was unable to keep himself from slumber.
  • He fell into amazement saying, “This is (a thing) unknown. This has fallen from the Unseen, ’tis not without purpose.” 2105
  • He laid his head down, and slumber overtook him. He dreamed that a voice came to him from God: his spirit heard
  • That voice which is the origin of every cry and sound: that indeed is the (only) voice, and the rest are echoes.
  • Turcoman and Kurd and Persian-speaking man and Arab have understood that voice without (help of) ear or lip.
  • Ay, (but) what of Turcomans, Persians, and Ethiopians? (Even) wood and stone have understood that voice.
  • Every moment there is coming from Him (the call), “Am not I (your Lord)?” and substance and accidents are becoming existent. 2110
  • If (the answer) “Yea” is not coming from them, yet their coming from non-existence (into existence) is (equivalent to) “Yea.”
  • Listen to a goodly tale in explanation of what I have said concerning the (spiritual) apprehension of (possessed by) stone and wood.
  • How the moaning pillar complained when they made a pulpit for the Prophet, on whom be peace—for the multitude had become great, and said, “We do not see thy blessed face when thou art exhorting us”—and how the Prophet and his Companions heard that complaint, and how Mustafá conversed with the pillar in clear language.
  • The moaning pillar was complaining of (its) separation from the Prophet, just as rational beings (might do).
  • The Prophet said, “O pillar, what dost thou want?” It said, “My soul is turned to blood because of parting from thee.
  • I was thy support: (now) thou hast run away from me: thou hast devised a place to lean against upon the pulpit.” 2115
  • “Dost thou desire,” said he, “to be made a date-palm, (so that) the people of the East and the West shall gather fruit from thee?
  • Or that He (God) should make thee a cypress in yonder world, so that thou wilt remain everlastingly fresh and flourishing?”
  • It replied, “I desire that whereof the life is enduring for ever.” Hearken, O heedless one! Be not thou less than a piece of wood!
  • He (the Prophet) buried that pillar in the earth, that it may be raised from the dead, like mankind, on the day of Resurrection,
  • That (hence) thou mayst know that every one whom God has called (to Himself) remains disengaged from all the work of this world. 2120
  • Whosoever hath his work and business from God, gains admission there and goes forth from (abandons worldly) work.
  • He that hath no gift (portion) of spiritual mysteries, how should he believe in the complaining of inanimate things?
  • He says “Yes,” not from his heart (but) for agreement's sake, lest people should say that he is a hypocrite (in his religion).
  • Unless there were knowers of the (Divine) command “Be!”, this doctrine (that inanimate things are capable of speech) would have been rejected in the world.
  • Myriads of conformists and legalists are cast into doubt by a half-imagination, 2125
  • For their conformity and their drawing evidence from logical proofs and all their wings and wing-feathers (every means which they employ in order to arrive at the truth) depend on opinion.
  • The vile Devil raises a doubt (in their minds): all these blind ones fall in headlong.
  • The leg of the syllogisers is of wood: a wooden leg is very infirm,
  • Unlike the Qutb (supreme saint) of the age, the possessor of (spiritual) vision, by whose steadfastness the mountain is made giddy-headed (amazed).
  • The blind man's leg is a staff, a staff, so that he may not fall headlong on the pebbles. 2130
  • The cavalier that became (the cause of) victory for the army, who is he for (the army of) the religious? The Lord of (spiritual) sight.
  • If, with (the aid of) a staff, the blind have seen their way, (yet) they are under the protection of the clear-sighted people.
  • Were there no men of vision and (spiritual) kings, all the blind in the world would be dead.
  • From the blind comes neither sowing nor reaping nor cultivation nor tradings and profit.
  • If He (God) did not bestow mercy and grace upon you, the wood of your logical deduction would break. 2135
  • What is this staff? Inferences and (logical) demonstration. Who gave them (the blind) that staff? The all-seeing and almighty One.
  • Since the staff has become a weapon of quarrel and attack, break that staff to pieces, O blind man!
  • He gave you the staff that ye might approach (Him): with that staff ye struck even at Him in your anger.
  • O company of the blind, what are ye doing? Bring the seer between (you and God)!
  • Lay hold of His skirt who gave thee the staff: consider what (dreadful) things Adam suffered from disobedience. 2140