بخش 29 - وصیت کردن مصطفی علیه‌السلام صدیق را رضی الله عنه کی چون بلال را مشتری می‌شوی هر آینه ایشان از ستیز بر خواهند در بها فزود و بهای او را خواهند فزودن مرا درین فضیلت شریک خود کن وکیل من باش و نیم بها از من بستان

Mustafá said to him, “O seeker of (spiritual) fortune, I will be thy partner in this (enterprise).

Be my agent, buy a half share (in him) on my account, and receive the payment from me.”

He replied, “I will do my utmost to serve thee.” Then he went to the house of the merciless Jew.

He said to himself, “From the hands of children one can buy pearls very cheaply, O father.”

From these foolish children the ghoul-like Devil is buying their reason and faith in exchange for the kingdom of this world.

He decks out the carcase so finely that (with it) he buys from them two hundred rose-gardens.

By magic he produces such moonshine that by means of (his) magic he carries off from worthless folk a hundred purses (of money).

The prophets taught them to trade (in the spiritual market) and lighted the candle of the (true) religion before them;

(But) by means of magic and in despite the devilish and ghoulish Magician caused the prophets to appear ugly in their eyes.

By (his) sorcery the Foe causes ugliness (to appear), so that divorce takes place between the wife and (her) husband.

Their eyes have been sealed by a (mighty) enchantment, so that they have sold such a (precious) pearl for rubbish.

This pearl is superior to both the worlds: hark, buy (it) from this ignorant child, for he is an ass.

To the ass a cowrie and a pearl are alike: the ass has a (great) doubt concerning the (spiritual) pearl and the Sea.

He disbelieves in the Sea and its pearls: how should an animal be a seeker of pearls and adornments?

God has not put it into the animal's head to be engrossed with rubies and devoted to pearls.

Have you ever seen asses with ear-rings? The ear and mind of the ass are (set) on the meadow.

Read in (the Súra entitled) Wa’l-Tín (the words), (We created Man) in the best proportion, for the spirit, O friend, is a precious pearl.

(That spirit created) in the best proportion surpasses the empyrean: (that spirit created) in the best proportion is beyond (the range of) thought.

If I declare the value of this inaccessible (pearl), I shall be consumed, and the hearer too will be consumed.

At this point close thy lips and proceed no further. This Siddíq went to those asses (the Jews).

He knocked the door-ring, and when the Jew opened the door he (the Siddíq) went into his house, beside himself (with indignation).

He sat down, beside himself and furious and full of fire: from his mouth leaped many bitter words—

“Why art thou beating this friend of God? What hatred is this, O enemy of the Light?

If thou art steadfast in thy own religion, how is thy heart consenting to maltreat him who is steadfast (in his religion)?

O thou effeminate in Judaism, who dost impute this (same effeminacy) to a (spiritual) prince!

Do not view all (things) in the distorting mirror of thy selfhood, O thou who art banned with an everlasting curse!”

If I should tell what burst from the lips of the Siddíq at that moment, you would lose (both) foot and hand.

(Coming) from (the world) beyond spatial relations, the fountains of wisdom (copious) as the Euphrates were running from his mouth,

As from the rock whence gushed a (great) water, (the rock) having no source of supply in (its own) side or interior;

(For) God made that rock a shield (veil) for Himself and opened (a way for) the blue crystalline water,

Even as He hath caused the light to flow from the fountain of your eye without stint or abatement:

It has no source of supply either in the fat (the white of the eye) or in the coating (retina); (but) the Beloved made (these) a veil (for Himself) when bringing (the light) into existence.

The attracting air in the cavity of the ear apprehends that which is spoken, (whether) true or false.

What is that air within that little bone, (that air) which receives the words and sounds uttered by the story- teller?

The bone and the air are only a veil: in the two worlds there is none except God.

He is the hearer, He is the speaker, (whom mystics behold) unveiled; for the ears belong to the head, O you who have merited the Divine recompense.

He (the Jew) said, “If thou art feeling pity for him, give (me) gold and take him (in exchange), O man of generous disposition.

Since thy heart is burning (with sympathy), ransom him from me: thy difficulty will not be solved without expense.”

He replied, “I will perform a hundred services (on his behalf) and five hundred prostrations (in thanksgiving for success). I have a handsome slave, but (he is) a Jew;

He has a white body, but a black heart: take (him), and give (me) in exchange that one whose body is black but whose heart is illumined.”

Then the chieftain (Abú Bakr) sent (a messenger) to fetch him: in sooth that slave was exceedingly comely,

So that the Jew was dumbfounded: at once his stony heart inclined (towards him).

This is what happens to form-worshippers: their stone is (made) waxen by a (beauteous) form.

(Then) again he wrangled and would not be satisfied, saying, “Without any evasion, (thou must) give more than this.”

He offered him in addition a nisáb (two hundred dirhems) of silver, so that the Jew's cupidity was satisfied.