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  • "What, then," he rejoined, "have we been doing until now? Where are your wits? Is nobody at home?
  • The (sound of the) drum (giving notice) of my insolvency reached the Seventh Heaven, and you have not heard the bad news! 675
  • Your ear has been filled with foolish hope; (such) hope, then, makes (one) deaf (and) blind, my lad.”
  • Even clods and stones heard this advertisement—“he is insolvent, he is insolvent, this scoundrel.”
  • They (the criers) said it till nightfall, and it made no impression on the owner of the camel, because he was full of (idle) hope, full.
  • God's seal lies upon the hearing and sight: within the veils is many a form and many a sound.
  • He communicates to the eye that which He wills of beauty and of perfection and of amorous looks; 680
  • And He communicates to the ear that which He wills of music and glad tidings and cries (of rapture).
  • The world is full of remedies, but you have no remedy till God opens a window for you.
  • Though you are unaware of that (remedy) just now, God will make it plain in the hour of need.
  • The Prophet said that the glorious God has created a remedy for every pain;
  • But of that remedy for your pain you will not see (even) the colour or scent without His command. 685
  • Come, O you that seek the remedy, set your eye on non-spatiality, as the eye of one (about to be) killed (turns) towards the spirit.
  • This (spatial) world has been produced from that which is without spatial relations, for the world has received (the relation of) place from placelessness.
  • Turn back from existence towards non-existence, (if) you seek the Lord and belong to the Lord.
  • This non-existence is the place of income: do not flee from it; this existence of more and less is the place of expenditure.
  • Since God's workshop is non-existence, in the world of (phenomenal) existence who is (to be found) except the idle? 690
  • Put into our heart subtle words which may move Thee to mercy, O Gracious One!
  • From Thee (come) both the prayer and the answer; from Thee safety, from Thee also dread.
  • If we have spoken faultily, do Thou correct it: Thou art the Corrector, O Thou (who art the) Sultan of speech.
  • Thou hast the alchemy whereby Thou mayst transmute it, and though it be a river of blood, mayst make it a Nile.
  • Such alchemical operations are Thy work, such elixirs are Thy secrets. 695
  • Thou didst beat water and earth together: from water and clay Thou didst mould the body of Adam.
  • Thou gavest him (Man) lineage and wife and uncles, maternal and paternal, with a thousand thoughts and joys and griefs.
  • Again, to some Thou hast given deliverance: Thou hast parted them from this grief and joy;
  • Thou hast borne them away from kindred and relatives and (their own) nature, Thou hast made every fair thing foul in his (such a one's) eyes.
  • He spurns all that is perceived by the senses, and leans for support on that which is invisible. 700
  • His love is manifest and his Beloved is hidden: the Friend is outside (of the world), (but) His fascination is in the world.
  • Give up this (belief). Loves (felt) for what is endued with form have not as their object the (outward) form or the lady's face.
  • That which is the object of love is not the form, whether it be love for (the things of) this world or yonder world.
  • That which you have come to love for its form—why have you abandoned it after the spirit has fled?
  • Its form is still there: whence (then) this satiety (disgust)? O lover, inquire who your beloved (really) is. 705
  • If the beloved is that which the senses perceive, every one that has senses would be in love (with it).
  • Inasmuch as constancy is increased by that (spiritual) love, how is constancy altered (impaired) by the (decay of the material) form?
  • The sunbeam shone upon the wall: the wall received a borrowed splendour.
  • Why set your heart on a piece of turf, O simple man? Seek out the source which shines perpetually.
  • You who are in love with your intellect, deeming yourself superior to worshippers of form, 710
  • That (intellect) is a beam of (Universal) Intellect (cast) on your sense-perception; regard it as borrowed gold on your copper.
  • Beauty in humankind is like gilding; else, how did your sweetheart become (as ugly as) an old ass?
  • She was like an angel, she became like a demon, for that loveliness in her was a borrowed (transient) thing.
  • Little by little they take away that beauty: little by little the sapling withers.
  • Go, recite (the text) to whom so We grant length of days, him We cause to decline. Seek the heart (spirit), set not thy heart on bones; 715
  • For that beauty of the heart is the lasting beauty: its fortune gives to drink of the Water of Life.
  • Truly it is both the water and the giver of drink and the drunken: all three become one when your talisman is shattered.
  • That oneness you cannot know by reasoning. Do service (to God) and refrain from foolish gabble, O undiscerning man!
  • Your reality is the form and that which is borrowed: you rejoice in what is relative and (secondary like) rhyme.
  • Reality is that which seizes (enraptures) you and makes you independent of form. 720
  • Reality is not that which makes blind and deaf and causes a man to be more in love with form.
  • The portion of the blind is the fancy that increases pain; the share of the (spiritual) eye is these fancies (ideas) of dying to self (faná).
  • The blind are a mine (full) of the letter of the Qur’án: they do not see the ass, and (only) cling to the pack-saddle.