بخش 172 - بیان آنک نَحْنُ قَسَمْنا کی یکی را شهوت و قوت خران دهد و یکی را کیاست و قوت انبیا و فرشتگان بخشد سر ز هوا تافتن از سروریست ترک هوا قوت پیغامبریست تخمهایی کی شهوتی نبود بر آن جز قیامتی نبود

If he (the Caliph) was deficient in the masculinity of asses, (yet) he possessed the manliness of the prophets.

It is (true) manliness and the nature of prophethood to abandon anger and lust and greed.

Let the masculinity of the ass be lacking in his nature, (what of that?): God calls him the great Beylerbey.

(If) I be a dead man and (if) God look on me (with favour), (my case is) better than (that of) the living man who is far (from God) and rejected (by Him).

Recognise this (abandonment of sensuality) to be the kernel of manliness, and that (indulgence in sensuality) to be the husk: the latter leads to Hell, the former to Paradise.

(The Tradition) “Paradise is encompassed with things disliked” has come (down to us); “Hell-fire is encompassed with sensual desire” has been declared.

“O Ayáz, fierce demon-killing lion, (thou in whom) the manliness of the ass is inferior (subjugated), the manliness of Reason superior (predominant),

That which so many eminent persons did not apprehend was to thee child's play: lo, here is the (true) man!

O thou who hast felt the delight of (obeying) my command and hast loyally devoted thy life for the sake of my command,

Now hearken to the tale of the savour and relish of (obeying) the (Divine) command (as related) in the (following) spiritual exposition thereof.”