بخش 162 - دعاکردن موسی آن شخص را تا بایمان رود از دنیا

At dawn Moses began (his) orison, saying, “O God, do not take the Faith from him, do not carry it away!

Act in royal fashion, forgive him, for he has erred and behaved with impudence and transgressed exceedingly.

I said to him, ‘This knowledge is not meet for thee,’ (but) he deemed my words a thwarting (of his desire) and vain.”

That one lays hands on the dragon (and that one alone) whose hand makes the rod a dragon.

To learn the secret of the Unseen is fitting for him (alone) who can seal his lips (and refrain) from speech.

None but the water-fowl is proper for the sea. Understand (this)—and God best knoweth the right course.

“He (the obstinate man) went into the sea, and he was not a water-fowl: he sank. Take his hand (succour him), O Loving One!”