بخش 85 - شخصی به وقت استنجا می‌گفت اللهم ارحنی رائحة الجنه به جای آنک اللهم اجعلنی من التوابین واجعلنی من المتطهرین کی ورد استنجاست و ورد استنجا را به وقت استنشاق می‌گفت عزیزی بشنید و این را طاقت نداشت

A certain one said at the time of abstersion, “(O God), unite me with the scent of Paradise!”

(Thereupon) a person said, “You have used a good formula, but you have missed the (proper) hole for the prayer.

Since this prayer was the formula applicable to the nose, why have you applied the nose-formula to the arse?

One free (from sensuality) gets the odour of Paradise from his nose: how should the odour of Paradise come from the rump?”

O thou who hast brought humility into the presence of fools, and O thou who hast brought pride into the presence of (spiritual) kings,

The pride shown to the base is goodly and fitting. Take heed, do not behave in the reverse manner: the reverse thereof is (the cause of) thy bondage.

The rose grew for the sake of the nostrils: sweet scent is the stipend of the nose, O churl.

The scent of the rose is for organs of smell, O bold man: this hole below is not the place for that scent.

How should the scent of Paradise come to thee from this place? If thou requirest the (sweet) scent, seek it from its (proper) place.

Likewise, “love of country” is right, (but) first, O master, know (what really is) thy country.

That sagacious fish said, “I will journey, I will withdraw my heart from their advice and counsel.”

’Tis no time for counsel. Hark, journey! Like ‘Alí, sigh (the secret) into the well.

Very seldom is there found a fit confidant for that sigh: go by night and let thy movement be hidden, like (that of) the night-patrol.

Set out from this lake towards the sea: seek the sea and take leave of this whirlpool.

That wary (fish) made its breast o afoot (swam away) and was going from its perilous abode to the sea of light,

Like the deer of which a dog is in pursuit and which keeps running so long as there is a single nerve in its body.

Hare’s sleep (heedlessness) with the dog in pursuit is a sin: how indeed is sleep (dwelling) in the eye of him who hath fear?

That fish departed and took the way to the sea: it took the far way and the vast expanse.

It suffered many afflictions, and in the end it went after all towards safety and welfare.

It cast itself into the deep Sea whose bound no eye can reach.

So when the fishermen brought their net (to the lake), the half-intelligent (fish) was bitterly grieved thereat.

And said, “Alas, I have lost the opportunity: how did not I accompany that guide?

He went off suddenly, but seeing that he went I ought to have gone after him in hot haste.”

‘Tis wrong to regret the past: what is gone will not come back: to remember it is of no avail.