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  • 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.
  • Hence He said unto the company (of mystics), ‘Wheresoever ye turn, His Face is there.
  • If in thirst ye drink some water from a cup, ye are beholding God within the water.’
  • He that is not a lover (of God) sees in the water his own image, O man of insight;
  • (But) since the lover's image has disappeared in Him (the Beloved), whom now should he behold in the water? Tell (me that)! 3645
  • Through the working of the Jealous One, they (the mystics) behold the beauty of God in the faces of the houris, like the moon (reflected) in water.
  • His jealousy is (directed) against a lover and sincere (adorer); His jealousy is not (directed) against a (human) devil and beast;
  • (But) if the devil become a lover (of God), he has carried off the palm: he has become a Gabriel and his devilish nature is dead.
  • (The meaning of) ‘the Devil became a true believer’ is made manifest on the occasion when by His (God's) grace a Yazíd becomes a Báyazíd.
  • This topic is endless. Beware, O company (of travellers), keep your faces (safe) from that fortress! 3650
  • Oh, let not vain desire waylay you, or ye will fall into everlasting misery.
  • ’Tis a bounden duty to abstain from peril: hear disinterested advice from me.
  • In seeking relief (from sorrow) ’tis better that one's wits should be sharp: ’tis better to abstain from (falling into) the ambuscade of tribulation.”
  • If their father had not spoken these words and had not warned them against that fortress,
  • Their party would never have approached the fortress, their desire would never have inclined towards it; 3655