How Solomon, on whom be peace, sent a threatening message to Bilqis, saying, “Do not think to persist in polytheism and do not make delay.”
شاعر: رومی
وزن: فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلن (رمل مسدس محذوف یا وزن مثنوی)
صنف: مثنوی
“Hark, Bilqis, come! Else, it will be bad (for thee): thy army will become thine enemy and will revolt.
Thy chamberlain will destroy thy door: thy soul with (all) its soul will act as an enemy towards thee.”
All the atoms of earth and heaven are God’s army, (as you will find out) on putting it to the test.
You have seen what the wind did to the people of ‘Ad, you have seen what the water did at the Deluge;
How that vengeful Sea dashed on Pharaoh, and how this Earth behaved to Qarun
(Korah);
And what those babil (swifts) did to the Elephant, and how the gnat devoured the skull of Nimrod;
And how a David hurled with his hand a stone (which) be came six hundred pieces and shattered an army,
Stones rained upon the enemies of Lot, so that they were sub merged in the black water, If I relate the help given rationally to the prophets by the inanimate things of the world,
The Mathnawi will become of such extent that, if forty camels carry it, they will be unable to bear the full load.
The (infidel’s) hand will give testimony against the infidel will become an army of God, and will submit (to the Divine command).
O you that in your actions have studied to oppose God, you are in the midst of His army: be afraid!
Every part of you is an army of God in accord (with Him) they are obedient to you now, (but) not sincerely’.
If He say to the eye, “Squeeze (torture) him, ‘eye-ache will wreak upon you a hundred vengeances;
And if He say to the teeth, ‘Plague (him),” then you will suffer chastisement from your teeth.
Open the (book of) Medicine and read the chapter on diseases, that you may see what is done by the army of the body.
Since He is the Soul of the soul of everything, howls it a light matter to be hostile to the Soul of the soul?
“Let alone the army of demons and genies who, (devoted to me) from the core of their hearts, cleave the ranks (of my enemies) for me.
First, O Bilqis relinquish thy kingdom: when thou gainest me, all the kingdom is thine.
When thou hast come to me, thou thyself wilt know that without me thou wert (as) a picture in the bath-house.”
Even if the picture be the picture of a sultan or a rich man, it is a (mere) form: it has no savour (consciousness) of its own spirit.
Its beauty is for others: its eyes and mouth are open in vain.
O you who have devoted yourself (to contending with others) in strife, you have not known ‘(discriminated) others from your self.
You stop at every form that you come to, saying, “I am this.” By God, you arc not that (form).
(If) you are left alone by people for a single moment, you re main (plunged) up to the throat in grief and anxiety.
How are you this (form)? You are that Unique One, for (in reality) you are fair and lovely and intoxicated with yourself.
You are your own bird your own prey, and your own snare; you are your own seat of honour, your own floor, and yow own root.
The substance is that which subsists in itself; the accident is that which has become a derivative of it (of the substance).
If you are born of Adam, sit like him and behold all his progeny in yourself
What is in the jar that is not (also) in the river? What is in the house that is not (also) in the city?
This world is the jar, and the heart (spirit) is like the ‘river; this world is the chamber, and the heart is the wonderful city.
