بخش 29 - در بیان آنک ثواب عمل عاشق از حق هم حق است

For (His) lovers He (alone) is (all their) joy and sorrow; He (alone) is their wages and hire for service.

If there be any spectacle (object of regard for them) except the Beloved, ’tis not love: ’tis an idle passion.

Love is that flame which, when it blazes up, consumes everything else but the Beloved.

He (the lover) drives home the sword of Not in order to kill all other than God: thereupon consider what remains after Not.

There remains except God: all the rest is gone. Hail, O mighty Love, destroyer of polytheism!

Verily, He is the First and the Last: do not regard polytheism as arising from aught except the eye that sees double.

Oh, wonderful! Is there any beauty but from the reflexion of Him? The (human) body hath no movement but from the spirit.

The body that hath defect in its spirit will never become sweet, (even) if you smear it with honey.

This he knows who one day was (spiritually) alive and received a cup from this Soul of the soul;

While to him whose eye has not beheld those (beauteous) cheeks this smoky heat is (appears to be) the spirit.

Inasmuch as he never saw ‘Umar (ibn) ‘Abdu ’l-‘Azíz, to him even Hajjáj seems just.

Inasmuch as he never saw the firmness (unshakable strength) of the dragon of Moses, he fancies (there is) life in the magic cords.

The bird that has never drunk the limpid water keeps its wings and feathers in the briny water.

No opposite can be known except through its opposite: (only) when he (any one) suffers blows will he know (the value of) kindness.

Consequently the present life has come in front (first), in order that you may appreciate the realm of Alast.

When you are delivered from this place and go to that place, you will give thanks (to God) in the sugar- shop of everlastingness.

You will say, ‘There (in the world below) I was sifting dust, I was fleeing from this pure world.

Alas, would that I had died ere now, so that my (time of) being tormented in the mud might have been less!’