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  • By way of trial I am putting my hand thereon: how should I remove my hand and eye?
  • Ye are friends of Pharaoh, (who is) the body, O base people: hence the Nile seems to you to be blood.
  • Quickly become friends of Moses, (who is) the intellect, in order that the blood may remain not and ye may behold the river-water.
  • (If) an injustice is proceeding from (is being done by) thee towards thy father, that father will become (as) a (biting) cur in thine eyes. 3255
  • That father is not a cur: ’tis the effect of (thy) injustice that such mercy appears to thy sight (as) a cur.
  • Since the brethren (of Joseph) had envy and anger, they were regarding Joseph as the wolf.
  • When thou hast made peace with thy father, anger is gone; that currishness departs, and thy father at once becomes thy friend.
  • Explaining that the whole world is the form of Universal Reason, (and that) when by trespassing you act unjustly towards Universal Reason, in most cases the aspect of the world increases your vexation, just as when you show ill-feeling to your father the aspect of your father increases your vexation and you cannot (bear to) look on his face, though before that he will have been the light of your eye and the comfort of your soul.
  • The whole world is the form of Universal Reason, which is the father of whosoever is a follower of the (Divine) Word.
  • When any one shows excessive ingratitude to Universal Reason, the form of the universe appears to him (as) a cur accordingly. 3260
  • Make peace with this Father, abandon disobedience, that the water and clay (the world) may appear (to thee as) a carpet of gold.
  • Then the Resurrection will become thy present state (immediate experience): heaven and earth will be transfigured before thee.
  • Since I am ever at peace with this Father, this world is like Paradise in my sight.
  • At every moment (appears) a new form and a new beauty, so that from seeing the new (visions) ennui dies away.
  • I see the world to be full of bounty—the waters constantly gushing from the springs. 3265
  • The noise of their water is coming into mine ear: my inner consciousness and intelligence are being intoxicated.
  • (I see) the boughs dancing like penitents, the leaves clapping their hands like minstrels.
  • The gleam of the mirror is flashing through the (cover of) felt cloth: think how it will be if the mirror (itself) be displayed!
  • I am not telling one (mystery) out of thousands, because every ear is filled with a doubt.
  • To Opinion this saying (of mine) is (only) a joyful announcement (concerning the future), (but) Reason says, ‘What (occasion for) announcement? It is my cash in hand (actual and present experience).’” 3270
  • Story of the sons of ‘Uzayr, on whom be peace, who were making inquiries about their father from (one who really was) their father. "Yes," he replied, "I have seen him: he is coming." Some (of them) recognised him and became unconscious, (while) others did not recognise him and said, "He has only announced (our father's coming): what is this unconsciousness?"
  • (The case is) like (that of) the sons of ‘Uzayr who came into the thoroughfare, asking news of their father.
  • They had grown old, while their father had been made young. Then suddenly their father met them.
  • So they inquired of him, saying, “O wayfarer, we wonder if thou hast news of our ‘Uzayr;
  • For some one told us that to-day that man of (great) authority would arrive from abroad after we had given up hope (of seeing him).”
  • “Yes,” he replied, “he will arrive after me.” That one (the son of ‘Uzayr) rejoiced when he heard the good tidings, 3275
  • Crying, “Joy to thee, O bringer of the good news!” But the other (son) recognised (him) and fell (to the ground) unconscious,
  • Saying, “What occasion is there for good tidings, O scatterbrain, when we have fallen into the mine (the very midst) of sugar?”
  • To Opinion it is (merely) good tidings, whereas in the sight of Reason it is ready cash (actuality), because the eye of Opinion is veiled by missing (the object sought).
  • It is pain to the infidels and glad news to the faithful, but in the eye of the seer it is immediate experience.
  • Inasmuch as the lover is intoxicated at the moment of immediacy, he is necessarily superior to infidelity and faith. 3280
  • Indeed, both infidelity and faith are his door-keeper (who secures him from intrusion); for he is the kernel, while infidelity and religion are his two rinds.
  • Infidelity is the dry peel that has averted its face (from the kernel); faith, again, is the peel (inner integument) that has gained a delicious flavour.
  • The place for the dry peels is the fire, (but) the peel attached to the spiritual kernel is sweet.
  • The kernel itself is above the grade of “sweet”: it is above “sweet” because it is the dispenser of deliciousness.
  • This discourse hath no end: turn back, that my Moses may cleave the sea asunder. 3285
  • This (preceding part) of the discourse hath been spoken suitably to the intelligence of the vulgar; the remainder thereof hath been concealed.
  • The gold, (which is) thy intelligence, is in fragments, O suspected one: how should I set the stamp of the die upon clippings?
  • Thy intelligence is distributed over a hundred important affairs, over thousands of desires and great matters and small.
  • Thou must unite the (scattered) parts by means of love, to the end that thou mayst become sweet as Samarcand and Damascus.
  • When thou becomest united, grain by grain, from (after thy dispersion in) perplexity, then it is possible to stamp upon thee the King's die; 3290
  • And if thou, foolish man, become greater than a mithqál (dinar), the King will make of thee a cup of gold.
  • Then thereon will be both the name and the titles of the King and also his effigy, O thou that cravest to attain,
  • So that the Beloved will be to thee both bread and water and lamp and minion and dessert and wine.
  • Unite thyself—union is (a Divine) mercy—that I may be able to speak unto thee that which is;
  • For speaking is for the purpose of (producing) belief: the spirit of polytheism is quit (devoid) of belief in God. 3295
  • The spirit that has been distributed over the contents of the (mundane) sphere is shared amongst sixty passions;
  • Therefore silence is best: it gives peace to it ( to that spirit); therefore ( I ought to follow the adage) “Silence is the answer to fools.”
  • This I know, but intoxication of the body is opening my mouth without volition on my part,
  • Just as in sneezing and yawning this mouth becomes open without your willing it.
  • Commentary on the Tradition, "Verily, I ask pardon of God seventy times every day."
  • Like the Prophet, I repent seventy times daily of speaking and giving out (mysteries); 3300
  • But that intoxication becomes a breaker of (vows of) penitence: this intoxication of the body causes oblivion and tears the robe (of penitence).