بخش 101 - تصورات مرد حازم

’Tis as when a lion has suddenly come up and seized a man and dragged him into the jungle.

At (the moment of) that carrying off, what will he think of? Consider (this), and think of the same thing, O thou who art learned in the (Mohammedan) Religion.

The lion, Destiny, is dragging into the jungles (of death) our souls which are preoccupied with (worldly) business and trades.

That (case) is like (the fact) that the people (of this world) have fear of poverty, plunged (as they are) up to their throats in the briny water.

If they should fear the Creator of poverty, treasures would be opened to them on the earth.

Through fear of affliction they all are in the very essence of affliction: in their quest for (material) existence they have fallen into non-existence.