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  • O thou who hast drawn stocks (of nourishment) from heaven and earth, so that thy body has grown fat,
  • (All) this is a loan: thou need’st not stuff (thy body) so much, for thou must needs pay back what thou hast taken—
  • (All) except (that of which God said) “I breathed,” for that hath come from the Munificent. Cleave to the spirit! The other things are vain.
  • I call them vain in relation to the spirit, not in relation to His (their Maker's) consummate making. 3595
  • Explaining that the gnostic seeks replenishment from the Fountainhead of everlasting life and that he is relieved of any need to seek replenishment and draw (supplies) from the fountains of inconstant water; and the sign thereof is his holding aloof from the abode of delusion; for when a man relies on the replenishments drawn from those fountains, he slackens in his search for the Fountain everlasting and permanent. “A work done from within thy soul is necessary, for no door will be opened to thee by things given on loan. A water-spring inside the house is better than an aqueduct that comes from outside.”
  • How goodly is the Conduit which is the source of (all) things! It makes you independent of these (other) conduits.
  • You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of those hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished;
  • (But) when the sublime Fountain gushes from within (you), no longer need you steal from the (other) fountains.
  • Since your eye is rejoiced by water and earth, heart's sorrow is the payment for this joy.
  • When (the supply of) water comes to a fortress from outside, it is more than enough in times of peace; 3600
  • (But) when the enemy forms a ring round that (fortress), in order that he may drown them (the garrison) in blood,
  • The (hostile) troops cut off the outside water, that (the defenders of) the fortress may have no refuge from them.
  • At that time a briny well inside (the walls) is better than a hundred sweet rivers outside.
  • The Cutter of cords (Death) and the armies of Death come, like December, to cut the boughs and leaves (of the body),
  • (And then) there is no succour for them in the world from Spring, except perchance the Spring of the Beloved's face in the soul. 3605
  • The Earth is entitled “the Abode of delusion” because she draws back her foot (and deserts you) on the day of passage.
  • Before that (time) she was running right and left, saying, “I will take away thy sorrow”; but she never took anything away.
  • In the hour of anxieties she would say to you, “May pain be far from thee, and (may) ten mountains (stand) between (pain and thee)!”
  • When the army of Pain arrives, she holds her breath: she will not even say, “I have seen (and been acquainted with) thee.”
  • God made a parable concerning the Devil on this wise: “He leads you into battle by his cunning tricks, 3610
  • Saying, ‘I will give thee help, I am beside thee, I will run before thee in the perils (of war);
  • I will be thy shield amidst the arrows of khadang wood, I will be thy refuge in the hour of distress;
  • I will sacrifice my life for thee in raising thee to thy feet. Thou art a Rustam, a lion: come on, be manful!’”
  • By means of these wiles that bag of deceit and cunning and craft leads him (whom he makes his dupe) to infidelity.
  • As soon as he sets foot (therein) and falls into the moat (of fire), he (the Devil) opens his lips with a loud ha, ha. 3615
  • (The dupe cries), “Hey, come! I have hopes of thee.” He (the Devil) says, “Begone, begone, for I am quit of thee.
  • Thou didst not fear the justice of the Creator, (but) I fear (it): keep thy hands off me!”
  • (Then) God says (to the Devil), “He (thy dupe), indeed, is parted from felicity, and how shouldst thou be saved by these hypocrisies?”
  • On the Day of Reckoning et faciens et pathicus infames sunt lapidationisque consortes. [On the Day of Reckoning (both) the active and passive (homosexuals) will be shamed-faced and partners in (being punished by) stoning.]
  • Assuredly, by the decree and just dispensation (of God), (both) the waylaid and the waylayer are in the pit of farness (from God) and in an evil resting-place. 3620
  • (Both) the fool and the ghoul who deceived him must ever endure to be deprived of salvation and felicity.
  • Both the ass and he that caught the ass are (stuck) in the mud here: here (in this world) they are forgetful of (God) and there (in the next world) they are sunk (in woe)—
  • (All) except those who turn back from that (deception) and come (forth) from the autumn (of sensuality) into the springtide of (Divine) grace,
  • And who repent, for God is ready to accept repentance, and cleave to His command, for a goodly Commander is He!
  • When, (moved) by sorrow, they raise a piteous cry, the highest Heaven trembles at the moaning of the sinners. 3625
  • It trembles even as a mother for her child: it takes them by the hand and draws them upward,
  • Saying, “O ye whom God hath redeemed from delusion, behold the gardens of (Divine) grace and behold the forgiving Lord!
  • Henceforth ye have everlasting provision and sustenance from God's air, not from the gutter (on the roof).”
  • Inasmuch as the Sea is jealous of intermediaries, he that is thirsty as a fish takes leave of the water-skin.
  • How the princes, having bidden the King farewell, set out on a journey through their father's empire, and how the King repeated his injunctions at the moment of farewell.
  • The (King's) three sons set out, in the fashion of (men equipped for) travel, to (visit) their father's (distant) possessions, 3630
  • And to make a tour of his cities and fortresses for the purpose of regulating the administrative and economic conditions.
  • They kissed the King's hand and bade him farewell; then the King, (who is) obeyed (by all), said to them:
  • “Direct your course whithersoever your heart (inclination) may lead you, go (your way) under the protection of God, waving your hands (dancing joyously).
  • (Go anywhere) except to one fortress, the name of which is ‘the robber of reason’: it makes the coat tight for wearers of the tiara.
  • For God's sake, for God's sake, keep far away from that castle adorned with pictures, and beware of the peril! 3635
  • The front and back of its towers and its roof and floor are all (covered with) images and decorations and pictures,
  • Like the chamber of Zalíkhá (which she made) full of pictures in order that Joseph should look upon her willy-nilly.
  • Since Joseph would not look at her, she cunningly filled the room with portraits of herself,
  • So that, wherever the fair-cheeked (youth) looked, he might see her face without having the power to choose.
  • The peerless God hath made (all) the six directions a theatre for the display of His signs to the clairvoyant, 3640
  • In order that, whatever animal or plant they look upon, they may feed on the meadows of Divine Beauty.