بخش 128 - بیان آنک یا ایها الذین آمنوا لا تقدموا بین یدی الله و رسوله چون نبی نیستی ز امت باش چونک سلطان نه‌ای رعیت باش پس رو خاموش باش از خود زحمتی و رایی متراش

Go therefore, be silent in submission beneath the shade of the command of the Shaykh and Master;

Otherwise, though thou art predisposed and capable, thou wilt become deformed through boasting of (thy) perfection.

Thou wilt be deprived even of (thy good) predisposition, if thou rebel against the

Master of the mystery who is endowed with knowledge.

Do thou still have patience in cobbling; for if thou be impatient, thou wilt become a rag-stitcher.

If the stitchers of old clothes had patience and forbearance, all of them too would become stitchers of new garments through (acquisition of) knowledge.

Thou strivest much, and at last even thou thyself sayest in weariness that the intellect is a fetter, Like the philosopher (who) on the day of his death perceived his intellect to be very poor and feeble,

And in that hour disinterestedly confessed (the truth), saying, “(Impelled) by acuteness of mind we galloped in vain.

In delusion we drew (scornfully) away from the holy men, we swam in the sea of phantasy.”

In the spiritual Sea swimming is naught (of no avail): here is no resource but the ship (ark) of Noah.

Thus said that king of the prophets, “I am the ship in this universal Sea,

Or that person who, in respect of my (inward) clairvoyances, has become a true vicegerent in my stead.”

We (saints) are the ship (ark) of Noah in the Sea, in order that thou mayst not turn thy face away from the ship, O youth.

Go not, like Canaan, to every mountain: hear from the Qur’án (the warning), “There is naught that will protect (thee) to-day.”

This ship, because of the bandage (on thy vision), seems to thee low, (while) the mountain of (intellectual) thought seems very high.

Beware, beware! Do not regard this “low” with contempt: regard the grace of God that is attached (to it).

Do not regard the height of the mountain of thought, for a single wave turns it upside down.

If thou art (like) Canaan, thou wilt not believe me though I foster (for thy sake) two hundred times as many counsels.

How should Canaan's ear accept these words? for God's seal and signet is upon it.

How should admonition pass through God's seal? How should the new (admonition) avert the (eternal) pre-ordainment?

But I am telling the news of good fortune in the hope that thou art not (like) Canaan.

Thou wilt make this confession at last. Hark, from the first day do thou behold the last!

Thou canst see the end: do not make blind and old thine eye that sees the end.

Whosoever is blessedly a seer of the end will never stumble in wayfaring.

Unless thou desire this incessant lying down and rising up (this stumbling on the way), sharpen thine eye with the dust on the foot of a holy man.

Make the dust of his foot collyrium for thine eye, that thou mayst strike off the head of the blackguards;

For through this pupilage and this poverty (of spirit), (though) thou be (as) a needle, thou wilt become (a trenchant sword like) Dhu ’l-faqár.

Use the dust of every elect one as collyrium: it will both burn the eye and do it good.

The eye of the camel is very luminous because he (the camel) eats thorns for the sake of (increasing) the light of his eye.