بخش 184 - لاابالی گفتن عاشق ناصح و عاذل را از سر عشق

He said, “O counsellor, be silent! How long, how long (wilt thou chide)?

Do not give advice, for the bonds (on me) are very grievous.

My bonds are more grievous than thy advice: thy doctor (who taught thee) was not acquainted with love.

Do not thou threaten me with being killed, for I thirst lamentably for mine own blood.” For lovers, there is a dying at every moment: verily, the dying of lovers is not of one sort.

He (the lover) hath two hundred souls (lives) from the Soul of Guidance, and those two hundred he is sacrificing at every instant.

For each soul (life) he receives ten as its price: read from the Qur’án “ten like unto them.”

If that One of friendly countenance shed my blood, dancing (in triumph) I will strew (lavish) my soul (life) upon Him.

I have tried it: my death is (consists) in life: when I escape from this life, ’tis to endure for ever.

“Kill me, kill me, O trusty friends! Lo, in my being killed is life on life.”

O Thou that makest the cheek radiant, O Spirit of everlastingness, draw my spirit to Thyself and generously bestow on me the meeting (with Thee).

Speak Persian, though Arabic is sweeter: Love indeed hath a hundred other tongues (besides these two).

When the scent of that Charmer of hearts begins to fly (abroad), all those tongues become dumbfounded.

I will cease (from speech): the Sweetheart has begun to speak, be (all) ear—and God best knoweth the right course.

Since the lover has repented, now beware (of misapprehension), for he will lecture, like the adepts (in mystical love), on the gallows.

Although this lover is going to Bukhárá, he is not going to (attend) lectures or to (learn from) a teacher.

For lovers, the (only) lecturer is the beauty of the Beloved, their (only) book and lecture and lesson is His face.

They are silent (outwardly), but the shrill noise of their repetition is going up to the throne and high-seat of their Friend.

Their (only) lesson is enthusiasm and the whirling dance and quaking agitation; not the Ziyádát and the chapter on “the chain.”

The “chain” of these people (the lovers of God) is the musk-dropping curls (of the Beloved); they have the question of “the circle,” but it is the “circle” of the Friend.

If any one ask you about the question of “the purse,” tell (him) that God's treasure is not contained in purses.

If talk of khul‘ and mubárá is going on (among them), do not disapprove: (inwardly) mention is being made of “Bukhárá.”

The mention (recollection) of any thing produces a particular (spiritual) effect, inasmuch as every quality has a quiddity.

That man of Bukhárá had not the vexation of knowledge: he was fixing his eyes on the sun of vision.

No one who in solitude has found the way to vision will seek power by means of the (diverse) kinds of knowledge.

When he has become a boon-companion to the beauty of the Soul, he will have a disgust of traditional learning and knowledge.

Vision is superior to knowledge: hence the present world prevails (over the next world) in the view of the vulgar,

Because they regard this world as ready money, while they deem what concerns that (other) world to be (like) a debt.