بخش 33 - پیدا کردن سلیمان علیه‌السلام کی مرا خالصا لامر الله جهدست در ایمان تو یک ذره غرضی نیست مرا نه در نفس تو و حسن تو و نه در ملک تو خود بینی چون چشم جان باز شود به نورالله

“Hark, come, for I am a Messenger (Prophet) sent to call (the people to God): like Death, I am the slayer of lust, I am not given to lust.

And if there be lust (in me), I am the ruler of (my) lust: lam not captive to lust for the face of an idol.

My deepest nature’ is a breaker of idols, like (Abraham) the Friend of God and all the prophets.

O slave, if I enter the idol-temple, the idol will prostrate itself, not I, in adoration.”

(Both) Ahmad (Mohammed) and Bu Jahl went into the idol- temple; (but) there is a great difference between this going and that going.

This one (Mohammed) enters, the idols lay down their heads before him; that one (Bu Jahl) enters and lays down his head (before the idols), like the peoples (of old).

This world, (which is) associated with lust, is an idol-temple: it is a nest (abode) for the prophets and the infidels (alike),

But lust is the slave of holy men: gold does not burn (in the fire), because it is sterling coin from the mine.

The infidels are alloy, while the holy men are as (pure) gold: both these (classes of) persons are within this crucible.

When the alloy came (into the crucible), it became black at once; (when) the gold came in, its goldenness was made manifest.

The gold gladly cast (itself with) hands and feet into the crucible: its vein (original nature) laughs in the face of the fire.

Our body is our veil in the world: we are like a sea hidden beneath this straw.

O fool, do not regard the king of the (true) Religion as clay; for the accursed Iblis took this view (of Adam).

How is it possible to daub this sun with a handful of earth? Pray, tell me (that)!

Though you pour earth and a hundred ashes over its light, it will come up above them.

Who (what) is straw that it should cover the face of the water? Who (what) is clay that it should cover the sun?

O Bilqis arise royally, like (Ibráhim son of) Adham: raise the smoke from (consume utterly) this kingdom of two or three days’ duration.