بخش 98 - اقتدا کردن قوم از پس دقوقی

Daqúqí advanced to perform the prayer: the company were (as) the satin robe and he (as) the embroidered border.

Those (spiritual) kings followed his leadership, (standing) in a row behind that renowned exemplar.

When they pronounced the takbírs, they went forth from this world, like a sacrifice.

O Imám, the (real) meaning of the takbír is this: “We have become a sacrifice, O God, before Thee.”

At the moment of slaughtering (the victim) you say Alláh akbar: even so (do) in slaughtering the fleshly soul which ought to be killed.

The body is like Ismá‘íl (Ishmael), and the spirit like Abraham: the spirit has pronounced the takbír over the noble body.

By lusts and desires the body was (merely) killed, (but) by (the words) bismilláh (uttered) in the ritual prayer it was sacrificed.

Whilst performing the prayer (they were) drawn up in ranks before God, as at the Resurrection, and engaged in self-examination and orisons,

Standing in God's presence and shedding tears, like one who rises erect on (the Day of) rising from the dead.

(On that Day) God will say, “What hast thou produced for Me during this term of respite which I gave thee?

In what (work) hast thou brought thy life to its end? In what hast thou consumed thy food and strength?

Where hast thou dimmed the lustre of thine eye? Where hast thou dissipated thy five senses?

Thou hast expended eyes and ears and intellect and the pure celestial substances: what hast thou purchased from the earth?

I gave thee hands and feet as spade and mattock (for tilling the soil of good works). When did those become (existent) of themselves?”

Even so hundreds of thousands of such sorrowful messages come from the Lord.

At the time of standing (in prayer) these words return (from God to the worshipper), and from shame he is bent double in the genuflexion.

From shame the power of standing remains not, and from abashment he recites a litany of glorification while his knees are bowed.

Then comes the (Divine) command, “Lift up thy head from the genuflexion and tell over (what thou hast to say in) answer to God.”

The shamefaced one lifts up his head from the genuflexion; then that man whose works are unripe (imperfect) falls on his face.

Again the (Divine) command comes to him, “Lift up thy head from the prostration and give an account of thy deeds.”

Once more the shamefaced one lifts up his head, and falls again on his face, (flat) as a snake.

Again He says, “Lift up thy head and relate (thy deeds), for I will inquire of thee (concerning them), hair by hair.”

He hath no power to stand on foot, since the words of awe addressed to him have smitten his soul;

So he sits down because of that heavy burden. (Then) the Lord says to him, “Speak plainly!

I gave thee bounty: tell (Me), what were thy thanks? I gave thee capital: come, show (Me) the interest.”

(Then) he (the worshipper) turns his face to the right hand in the salutation—towards the spirits of the prophets and those of the noble (saints),

Meaning to say, “O kings, (vouchsafe) intercession, for this vile one's feet and mantle are stuck fast in the mire.”