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1821-1870

  • (Or) like fruit that in winter-time tells the story of God's lovingkindness
  • And the tale of the season when the sun was smiling and embracing the brides of the orchard. [And the tale of the season when the sun was (enjoying) touching and copulating (with) the brides of the orchard.]
  • The ecstasy is gone but thy (every) part remains as a souvenir: either inquire of it, or thyself recall (the ecstasy) to mind.
  • When grief takes possession of thee, if thou art a fit (alert and capable) person thou wouldst question that moment of despair
  • And wouldst say to it, “O Sorrow that deniest implicitly the allowance of favours (bestowed upon thee) by that Perfection, 1825
  • If Spring and (its) fresh gladness are not always thine, (then) of what is thy body, (which is) like a heap of roses, the storehouse?
  • Thy body is a heap of roses, thy thought is like rose-water; the rose-water denies the rose: lo, here is a marvel!”
  • (Even) straw is refused to those who apishly show ingratitude, (while) sun and cloud (sunshine and rain) are lavished on those who resemble the prophets in disposition.
  • That obstinacy in (showing) ingratitude is the rule followed by the ape, while that thankfulness and gratitude is the way of the prophet.
  • (See) what was done to the apish by their deeds of shame; (see) what was done to those of prophetic complexion by their acts of piety! 1830
  • In well-cultivated places there are curs and biting (dogs); in ruined places there is the treasure of glory and light.
  • If this (spiritual) moonlight had not been in eclipse, so many philosophers would not have lost the (right) way.
  • Through losing their way the acute and intelligent saw the brand of foolishness on their noses.
  • The remainder of the Story of the fakir who desired (to receive) his daily bread without (having recourse to) work as a means (of earning it).
  • In his grief that wretched pauper, who suffered a thousand agonies on account of indigence,
  • Used to beseech (God) in prayer and invocation, crying, “O Lord and Guardian of (them that are) the shepherds (of their people), 1835
  • Thou didst create me without any exertion (on my part): give me daily bread from this mansion (the world) without contrivance (on my part).
  • Thou gavest me the five jewels in the casket of my head, and also five other occult senses.
  • These gifts of Thine are not to be numbered or computed; in setting them forth I am tongue-tied and shamefaced.
  • Since Thou art alone (without partner) in my creation, do Thou adjust (accordingly) the matter of providing me with daily bread.”
  • For years this prayer was frequently uttered by him, and at last his supplication took effect, 1840
  • As (in the case of) the person who used to beg God to grant him a lawful livelihood without labour and fatigue,
  • (Till) at length the cow brought him happiness: (’twas in) the epoch of David whose justice was divinely inspired.
  • This thrall of love, too, made piteous entreaties, and he likewise carried off the ball from the field of (favourable) response.
  • (Yet) while praying he would at times become distrustful on account of the postponement of the recompense and reward;
  • (And then) again the gracious Lord's deferment (of his hopes) would bring a message of joy to his heart and become a surety (for their fulfilment). 1845
  • Whenever in (the course of his) earnest supplication weariness caused him to despair, he would hear from the Presence of God (the call) “Come!”
  • This (Divine) Maker is He who abaseth and exalteth: without these two (attributes) no work is accomplished.
  • Consider the lowness of the earth and the loftiness of the sky: without these two (attributes) its (the sky's) revolution is not (possible), O such-and-such.
  • The lowness and loftiness of this earth are of another sort: for one half of the year it is barren and for (the other) half (it is) green and fresh.
  • The lowness and loftiness of distressful Time are of another sort: one half day and (the other) half night. 1850
  • The lowness and loftiness of this blended (bodily) temperament (of ours) are now health and now sickness that causes (us) to cry out (in pain).
  • Know that even so are all the changing conditions of the world—famine and drought and peace and war—(which arise) from (Divine) probation.
  • By means of these two wings this world is (kept up like a bird) in the air; by means of these twain (all) souls are habitations of fear and hope,
  • To the end that the world may be (always) trembling like a leaf in the north wind and simoom of resurrection and death,
  • (And) that (ultimately) the vat of the unicolority of our Jesus may destroy the value of the vat containing a hundred dyes; 1855
  • For that world (of Unity) is like a salt-mine: whatever has gone thither has become exempt from coloration (dyeing with various colours).
  • Look at earth: it makes many-coloured (diverse) humankind to be (all) of one colour in their graves.
  • This is the salt-mine for visible (material) bodies, (but) in sooth the salt-mine for ideal (supersensible) things is different.
  • The salt-mine for ideal things is ideal (spiritual and real): it remains new from eternity unto everlasting.
  • This (earthly) newness has oldness as its opposite, but that newness (belonging to the world of Reality) is without opposite or like or number. 1860
  • ’Tis (even) as by the polishing action of the Light of Mustafá (Mohammed) a hundred thousand sorts of darkness became radiant.
  • Jew and polytheist and Christian and Magian—all were made of one colour by that Alp Ulugh (great hero).
  • A hundred thousand shadows short and long became one in the light of that Sun of mystery.
  • Neither a long (shadow) remained nor a short nor a wide: shadows of every kind were given in pawn to (absorbed in) the Sun.
  • But the unicolority that is (everywhere) at the Resurrection is (then) revealed and (made) manifest to the evil and the good (alike); 1865
  • For in that world ideas are endued with form, and our (visible) shapes become congruous with our (moral and spiritual) qualities.
  • The (secret) thoughts will then become (materialised in) the form of the books (recording good and evil actions): this lining will become the working surface of the garments.
  • During this (present) time (men's) inward beliefs are (as variegated) as a piebald cow, and in the (different) religious sects the spindle of speech is spinning (threads of) a hundred colours.
  • ’Tis the turn (reign) of many-colouredness and many-mindedness: how should the one-coloured world become unveiled?
  • ’Tis the turn (reign) of the Ethiopian; the Greek is hidden (from view): this is night, and the sun is in pawn. 1870