بخش 115 - در معنی لَوْلاکَ لَما خَلَقْتُ الأَفْلاکَ

A Shaykh like this became a beggar (going) from street to street. Love is reckless: beware!

Love makes the sea boil like a kettle; Love crumbles the mountain like sand;

Love cleaves the sky with a hundred clefts; Love unconscionably makes the earth to tremble.

The pure Love was united with Mohammed: for Love's sake God said to him, “But for thee.”

Since he alone was the ultimate goal in Love, therefore God singled him out from the (other) prophets,

(Saying), “Had it not been for pure Love's sake, how should I have bestowed an existence on the heavens?

I have raised up the lofty celestial sphere, that thou mayst apprehend the sublimity of Love.

Other benefits come from the celestial sphere: it is like the egg, (while) these (benefits) are consequential, like the chick.

I have made the earth altogether lowly, that thou mayst gain some notion of the lowliness of lovers.

We have given greenness and freshness to the earth, that thou mayst become acquainted with the (spiritual) transmutation of the dervish.”

These firm-set mountains describe (represent) to thee the state of lovers in steadfastness,

Although that (state) is a reality, while this (description) is (only) an image, O son, (which is employed) in order that he (who offers it) may bring it nearer to thy understanding.

They liken anguish to thorns; it is not that (in reality), but they do so as a means of arousing (thy) attention.

When they called a hard heart “stony,” that was (really) inappropriate, (but) they made it serve as a similitude.

The archetype of that (object of comparison) is inconceivable: put the blame on thy conceptual faculty, and do not regard it (the archetype) as negated (nonexistent).