بخش 137 - رجوع کردن به قصهٔ پروردن حق تعالی نمرود را بی‌واسطهٔ مادر و دایه در طفلی

“In short, that garden, like the (spiritual) orchard of gnostics, was secure from the simoom and the sarsar wind.

A leopardess (there) had newly given birth to cubs: I bade her give milk to him (Nimrod), and she obeyed.

So she gave him milk and tended him till he grew up and became strong and valiant.

When he was weaned, I told the peris (Jinn) to teach him how to discourse and deal justice.

I gave him nourishment from that garden: how should (the description of) My artfulness be contained in words.

I bestowed on Job a father's love in order that he might entertain the worms hospitably and do them no harm.

I bestowed on the worms love for him like that of children for their father.

Look, here is (a token of My) Power, here is (a token of My) Hand!

I have taught mothers to care (for their children): how (infinite) must be the kindness that I have kindled! (Unto him) I showed a hundred favours and (knit) a hundred ties (of obligation), that he might experience My kindness directly,

And not be distracted by any secondary cause, to the end that every call for help should be made by him to Me,

Or at least that he should have no excuse (for turning elsewhere) and no occasion to complain of any evil companion.

He enjoyed this tender care (cemented) by a hundred ties, for I fostered him (Myself) without an intermediary.

His thanks, O honoured servant, were this, that he became Nimrod and the burner of Khalíl (Abraham)”—

Just as this prince, in return for the favours of the King, showed arrogance and sought to aggrandise himself,

Saying, “Why should I become the follower of another when I possess empire and new (splendid) fortune?”

(Hence) the King's favours, of which the tale has been told above, were veiled from his heart (in oblivion) by his outrageous insolence—

“Even so did Nimrod ignorantly and blindly trample underfoot those favours (of Mine).

Now he has become an infidel and is waylaying (the faithful): he is acting with arrogance and pretending to Divinity.

By means of three vultures he has gone (flown) towards august Heaven in order to battle with Me,

And has killed a hundred thousand innocent children (in the hope) that he may find Abraham;

For the astrologers declared that, according to the forecast for the year, there would be born an adversary to combat him,

(And said), ‘Hark, take precautions to repel that enemy’; (so) in his craziness he would fain kill every child that was born.

(But), to confound him, the inspired child was saved; the blood of (all) the others remained (as a burden of guilt) upon his neck.

Oh, ’tis wonderful! Did he obtain that empire from his father so that (in consequence) he was befooled by the darkness of noble lineage?

(Nay); if father and mother were an obstacle (cause of delusion) to others, he derived the jewels in his pocket from Me.”

Assuredly thy wicked carnal soul is a rapacious wolf: why art thou laying the blame on every comrade (neighbour)?

In its misguidedness the foul disbelieving unconscionable carnal soul is (like) a cap for (concealing the diseased condition of) a hundred baldpates.

For this reason, O poor slave (of God), I am always saying, “Do not remove the collar from the neck of the cur.”

(Even) if this cur has become a teacher, it is a cur still: be thou one whose carnal soul is abased, for it is evil-natured.

Thou wilt perform thy bounden duty if thou go round about (one like) Suhayl (Canopus, and absorb his light) as Tá’if hide (absorbs the rays),

In order that Suhayl may redeem thee from the vices of the skin (corporeality), and that thou mayst fit the foot of the Beloved like a boot.

The entire Qur’án is a description of the viciousness of carnal souls: look into the Holy Book! Where is thine eye?

(’Tis) an account of the carnal soul of people like ‘Ád, which (whenever it) found weapons took the utmost pains to combat the prophets.

From generation to generation, the wickedness of the undisciplined carnal soul was the cause of the world being suddenly set on fire (by Divine wrath).