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2750-2799

  • If you have not firm belief in its being poisonous (and do not know) what (a deadly) poison it is, look at the people of ‘Ád. 2750
  • When one king gains the upper hand (prevails) over another. king, he kills him or confines him in a dungeon;
  • But if he find a fallen wounded man, the king will make a plaster for him and bestow gifts on him.
  • If that pride is not poison, then why did he kill the (vanquished) king without (his having committed any) crime or offence?
  • And how did he treat this other (helpless) man (so) kindly without (his having performed any) service? From these two actions you may recognise (the poisonous nature of) pride.
  • No highwayman ever attacked a beggar: does a wolf ever bite a dead wolf? 2755
  • Khizr made a breach in the boat in order that the boat might be saved from the wicked.
  • Since the broken (contrite) one will be saved, be thou broken (contrite). Safety lies in poverty enter into poverty
  • The mountain that possessed some cash in its mine was riven to pieces by the strokes of the pick-axe.
  • The sword is for him who has a (high and proud) neck; no blow falls on the shadow that is thrown (flat upon the ground).
  • Eminence is naphtha and fire, O misguided one: O brother, how (why) art thou going into the fire? 2760
  • How should anything that is level with the earth become a target for arrows? Consider!
  • (But if) it raise its head from the earth, then, like targets, it will suffer blows irremediable.
  • This egoism is the ladder of (climbed by) the creatures (of God): they must fall from this ladder in the end.
  • The higher any one goes, the more foolish he is, for his bones will be worse broken.
  • This is (constitutes) the derivatives (of the subject), and its fundamental principles are that to exalt one’s self is (to claim) copartnership with God. 2765
  • Unless thou hast died and become living through Him, thou art an enemy seeking to reign in copartnership (with Him)
  • When thou hast become living through Him, that (which thou hast become) is in sooth He: it is absolute Unity; how is it co partnership?
  • Seek the explanation of this in the mirror of (devotional) works, for thou wilt not gain the understanding of it from speech and discourse.
  • If I tell that which I have within, many hearts will immediately be turned into blood,
  • I will refrain; indeed, for the intelligent this (which has been said) is enough: I have shouted twice, if any one is in the village 2770
  • To sum up, Hámán by means of those evil words waylaid Pharaoh in such a (terrible) way as this.
  • The morsel, felicity, had reached his (Pharaoh’s) mouth, (when) he (Hámán) suddenly cut his throat.
  • He gave Pharaoh’s stack to the wind (destroyed him): may no king have such a minister!
  • How Moses, on whom be peace, despaired of Pharaoh’s accepting the true faith, because the words of Hámán made an impression on Pharaoh’s heart.
  • Moses said, “We have shown kindness and generosity, (but) verily it was not the portion allotted to thy dominion
  • The dominion that is not righteous—regard it as having neither hand nor sleeve 2775
  • The dominion that is stolen (usurped) is without heart and without soul and without eye.
  • The dominion which the vulgar have given to thee they will take back from thee as a debt.
  • Give up to God the dominion held on loan, that He may bestow on thee the dominion to which all consent.”
  • How the Amírs of the Arabs wrangled with Mustafá (Mohammed), on whom be peace, saying, "Share the kingdom with us, in order that there may be no contention"; and how Mustafá, on whom be peace, answered and said, "I am commanded (by God) in respect of this Amírate"; and the arguments on both sides.
  • The Amírs of the Arabs assembled and began to wrangle in the Prophet's presence,
  • Saying, “Thou art an Amír; every one of us is an Amír likewise: distribute this kingdom and take thy share. 2780
  • Each (of us) is seeking equity in regard to his share: do thou wash thy hands of our share.”
  • He replied, “God hath given the Amírate to me: He hath given me the chief authority and the absolute command,
  • Saying, ‘This is the epoch and cycle of Ahmad (Mohammed): hark, accept his command! Have fear (of God)!’”
  • The party (of Amírs) said to him, “We too are (made) rulers by that (Divine) destiny, and God hath given the Amírate to us.”
  • He said, “(Yes), but to me God gave it as a possession, and to you (only) as a loan for the sake of (furnishing you with) provisions for the road. 2785
  • My Amírate is lasting till the Resurrection; the Amírate held on loan will be shattered.”
  • The (opposing) party said, “O Amír, do not say too much (about this): what is thy argument for seeking more (than thy share)?”
  • Forthwith, by the bitter command (of God), a cloud arose; (then) came the torrent: the countryside was filled (with the flood).
  • The exceedingly frightful torrent set its face towards the town: the townsfolk (were) making loud lamentation, all (were) terrified.
  • The Prophet said, “Now the time is come for the test, in order that opinion may become ocular vision.” 2790
  • Each Amír flung his lance (into the flood), that in the test it might become a barrier against the torrent.
  • Then Mustafá (Mohammed) cast his wand upon it—that sovereign wand that reduced (his foes) to helplessness.
  • The rapid water of the boiling tameless torrent swept away the lances like a bit of straw.
  • All the lances disappeared, while that wand stood on the surface of the water like a sentry.
  • From anxious regard for that wand the mighty torrent turned its face away, and the flood-water departed. 2795
  • When they beheld that great matter wrought by him, those Amírs, (overcome) by dread, confessed—
  • Save three persons, whose rancour was prevailing: they, from disbelief, called him a magician and soothsayer.
  • The kingship that has been tied on (artificially) is weak like that; the kingship that has grown up (naturally) is august like this.
  • If thou didst not see the lances together with the wand, (yet) consider the names of them (the Amírs) and consider the name of him (Mohammed), O noble one!