بخش 14 - رد کردن معشوقه عذر عاشق را و تلبیس او را در روی او مالیدن

The loved one opened her lips to answer him, saying, “On my side it is day, and on thy side it is night.

Why in contention dost thou bring forward dark evasions be fore those who see (the truth plainly)?

To us, all the deceit and dissimulations that thou ha in thy heart are manifest and clear as day.

If we, in kindness to our servant, cover it up, why dost thou carry shamelessness beyond the limit?

Learn from thy Father; for in (the hour of) sin Adam came down willingly to the vestibule

When he beheld that Knower of secrets, he stood up on his feet to ask forgiveness.

He seated himself on the ashes of contrition: he did not jump from one branch of idle pleading to another

He said only, ‘O Lord, verily we have done wrong,’ when he saw the (angelic) life-guards in front and behind.

He saw the life-guards who are invisible, as the spirit is—each one’s mace (reaching) to the sky— -

Saying, ‘Hola! be (as) the ant before Solomon, lest this mace cleave thee asunder.

Do not for one moment stand (anywhere) but in the place of truth: a man hath no guardian like the (seeing) eye.

(Even) if the blind man be purified by admonition, he continually becomes polluted again.

O Adam, thou art not blind of vision, but when the Divine destiny comes, the sight becomes blind.’”

Lifetimes are needed—(so) rarely and occasionally (does it happen)—for the seeing man to fall by destiny into the pit.

As regards the blind man, this destiny in sooth is his companion on the way; for ‘tis his nature and disposition to fall.

He falls into the filth and does not know what the smell is; (he asks himself), “Is this smell from me or from (my) being polluted?”

And likewise, if any one sprinkle some musk over him, he thinks it (comes) from himself and not from the kindness of his friend.

Therefore to you, 0 man of vision, two clear eyes are (as) a hundred mothers and a hundred fathers;

Especially the eye of the heart (the spiritual ‘eye), which is seventy-fold and of which these two sensible eyes are (only) the gleaners.

Oh, alas, the highwaymen are seated (and lying in wait for me): they have tied a hundred knots beneath my tongue.

How should the smooth-paced horse move well, when his leg is tied? This is a very heavy chain: hold me excused!

These words (of mine) are coming (forth) brokenly, 0 heart; for these words are pearls, and (the Divine) jealousy is the mill (which breaks them);

(But), though the pearls be broken into small fragments, they become tutty (collyrium) for the sore eye (of the spirit).

O pearl, do not beat thy head (in grief) at thy being broken, for through being broken thou wilt become (radiant) light.

It (the word) has to be uttered thus brokenly and in bandages: God, who is Self-sufficient, will make it whole at last.

If wheat is broken and torn asunder (in the mill), it appears in the (baker’s) shop, saying, “Look! a perfect loaf!”

“Thou too, O lover, since thy crime has become manifest, abandon water and oil (specious varnish) and be broken (contrite).

Those who are the elect children of Adam sigh forth (the confession), ‘verily we have done wrong.’

Submit thy petition, do not argue like the accursed hard- faced (impudent) Iblis.

If impudence concealed his fault, go, exert thyself in (showing) obstinacy and impudence!

Abu Jahl, like a vindictive Ghuzz Turcoman, demanded a miracle from the Prophet;

But that Siddiq of God (Abu Bakr) did not crave a miracle: he said, ‘Verily, this face speaks naught but truth.’

How should it beseem one like thee, from egoism, to make trial of a beloved like me?”