بخش 113 - گواهی دادن دست و پا و زبان بر سر ظالم هم در دنیا

Even here, then, your hands and feet, in (doing) harm, bear witness to your conscience.

Since your (evil) conscience becomes (as) an overseer to you and says, “Speak! Do not keep back your belief,”

And, especially at times of anger and quarrelling, makes manifest your secret thought, hair by hair;

Since wrong and injustice become your overseer and say, “Display me, O hands and feet,”

And since the (evil conscience which bears) witness to the secret thought seizes the reins—in particular at times of emotion and anger and revenge—

O thou who hast entered most recklessly upon (a course of) injustice and malice, thy true nature is evident: this (advertisement of it) is not needed.

It is not necessary to become celebrated for (doing) harm: they (who possess discernment) are acquainted with thy fiery (hellish) conscience. Thy fleshly soul every moment emits a hundred sparks, saying, “Behold me! I am of the people of the Fire.

I am a part of the Fire: I go to my whole; I am not (composed of) light, so that I should go to the Lord”— Even as this unjust and ungrateful man wrought so much con fusion (made such a great disturbance) for the sake of a cow.

He carried off from him (the defendant) a hundred cows and a hundred camels this (wickedness) is the fleshly soul: O father, cut yourself asunder from it.

Besides, never once did he make humble supplication to God: never once did a cry of “O Lord!” come from him in sorrow— “O God, content my adversary: if I have inflicted loss upon him (yet) do Thou bestow profit (upon me)!

If T killed him by mistake, the (payment of the) blood-price falls on my kin: Thou hast been my spirit’s kin from (the Day of) Alast.”

He (God) does not give (worthless) stones in return for the pearls of contrition (nay), this, O noble spirit, is the justice of the fleshly soul.