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1161-1210

  • Do not steal thy head away from the crown-giving one whose head is exalted, for he will untie a hundred knots from the foot of thy heart.
  • Whom shall I tell? Where in the village is any (spiritually) living one? Where is any one that runs towards the Water of Life?
  • Thou art fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation: what dost thou know of Love except the name?
  • Love hath a hundred disdains and prides: Love is gained by means of a hundred blandishments.
  • Since Love is loyal, it purchases (desires) him that is loyal: it does not look at a disloyal comrade. 1165
  • Man resembles a tree, and the root is the covenant (with God): the root must be cherished with all one's might.
  • A corrupt (infirm) covenant is a rotten root and is cut off (deprived) of fruit and grace.
  • Although the boughs and leaves of the date-palm are green, greenness is no benefit (when conjoined) with corruption of the root;
  • And if it (the bough) have no green leaves, while it hath a (good) root, at the last a hundred leaves will put forth their hands.
  • Be not duped by his (the learned man's) knowledge; seek (to know whether he keeps) the covenant: knowledge is like a husk, and his covenant is its kernel. 1170
  • Explaining that when the evil-doer becomes settled in evil-doing and sees the effect of the (spiritual) fortune of the doers of righteousness, he from envy becomes a devil and preventer of good, like Satan; for he whose stack is burnt desires that all (others) should have their stacks burnt: ‘hast thou seen him who forbids a servant (of God) when he performs the (ritual) prayer?’
  • When you see that the loyal have profited, thereat you become envious, like a devil.
  • Whenever a man's temperament and constitution is feeble, he does not wish any one to be sound in body.
  • If you dislike (to have) the jealousy of Iblís, come (away) from the door of pretension (and advance) to the portal of loyalty.
  • When thou hast not loyalty, at least do not talk (presumptuously), for words are for the most part self-assertion—‘we’ and ‘I.’
  • These words, (whilst they stay) in the breast, are an income consisting of (spiritual) kernels: in silence the spiritual kernel grows a hundredfold. 1175
  • When it (the word) comes on to the tongue, the kernel is expended: refrain from expending, in order that the goodly kernel may remain (with you).
  • The man who speaks little hath strong thoughts: when the husk, namely speech, becomes excessive, the kernel goes.
  • (When) the rind is excessive, the kernel is thin: the rind becomes thin when it (the kernel) becomes perfect and goodly.
  • Look at these three (fruits) when they have passed beyond immaturity: the walnut and the almond and the pistachio.
  • Whoever disobeys (God) becomes a devil, for he becomes envious of the fortune of the righteous. 1180
  • When you have acted loyally in (keeping) your covenant with God, God will graciously keep His covenant with you.
  • You have shut your eyes to keeping faith with God, you have not hearkened to (the words) remember Me, I will remember you.
  • Give ear, listen to (the words) keep My covenant, in order that (the words) I will keep your covenant may come from the Friend.
  • What is our covenant and loan, O sorrowful one? (It is) like sowing a dry seed in the earth.
  • From that (sowing) neither do glory and grandeur accrue to the earth, nor riches to the owner of the earth. 1185
  • (’Tis nothing) except an indication, as though to say, ‘I need this kind (of produce), the origin whereof Thou didst create from non-existence.
  • I ate, and (now) I bring the seed as a token, begging Thee to send to us such bounty (as before).’
  • Abandon, then, the dry (verbal) prayer, O fortunate one; for the tree demands (presupposes) the scattering of seed.
  • (But) if you have no seed, on account of that prayer God will bestow on you a palm-tree, saying, ‘How well did he labour!’
  • Like Mary: she had (heartfelt) pain, but no seed: an artful One made green that (withered) palm-tree (for her sake). 1190
  • Because that noble Lady was loyal (to God), God gave unto her a hundred desires without desire on her part.
  • The company who have been loyal are given superiority over all (other) sorts (of men).
  • Seas and mountains are made subject to them; the four elements also are the slaves of that class.
  • This (miraculous power) is only a favour (conferred on them) for a sign, to the end that the disbelievers may see it plainly.
  • Those hidden graces of theirs, which come not into (the perception of) the senses or into description— 1195
  • Those are the (real) matter: those are enduring for ever, they are neither cut off nor reclaimed.
  • Prayer.
  • O Giver of (spiritual) nutriment and steadfastness and stability, give Thy creatures deliverance from this instability.
  • Grant unto the soul—for it is bent (crooked)—to stand upright (to persevere with rectitude) in the work wherein it ought to be stable.
  • Bestow patience upon them and heavy balance-scales: deliver them from the guile of impostors;
  • And redeem them from envy, O Gracious One, lest from envy they be devils accursed. 1200
  • How do the vulgar burn with envy for the fleeting happiness of riches and (pleasures of) the body!
  • Behold the kings, how they lead armies (to battle) and slay their own kinsmen because of envy.
  • The lovers of filthy dolls (darlings) have sought each other's blood and life.
  • Read Wís and Rámín and Khusraw and Shírín: (you will see) what those fools did because of envy.
  • (You will see) that the lover perished and the beloved too: they are naught and their passion also is naught. 1205
  • Holy is the God who brings non-existence into collision with itself and makes non-existence to be in love with non-existence.
  • Envies arise in the heart that is no (real) heart: thus doth Being subject not being to compulsion.
  • These women, who are kinder than all (other creatures)—(even amongst them) two fellow-wives devour each other from envy,
  • So that (you may judge) in what degree of envy are the men who indeed are stony-hearted.
  • If the Law had not exercised a gracious spell (over them), every one would have torn the body of his rival to pieces. 1210