بخش 63 - بیان آنک عطای حق و قدرت موقوف قابلیت نیست هم‌چون داد خلقان کی آن را قابلیت باید زیرا عطا قدیم است و قابلیت حادث عطا صفت حق است و قابلیت صفت مخلوق و قدیم موقوف حادث نباشد و اگر نه حدوث محال باشد

The remedy for such a heart is the gift bestowed by a Transmuter: receptivity is not a necessary condition for His bounty.

Nay, His bounty is the necessary condition for receptivity: Bounty is the kernel, and receptivity the husk.

The change of Moses' rod into a serpent and the shining of his hand like a (resplendent) sun,

And a hundred thousand miracles of the prophets which are not comprehended by our mind and understanding—

(These) are not derived from secondary causes but are (under) the (direct) control of God: how can receptivity belong to non-existent things?

If receptivity were a necessary condition for God's action, no non-existent thing would come into existence.

He (God) hath established a (customary) law and causes and means for the sake of those who seek (Him) under this blue veil (of heaven).

Most happenings come to pass according to the (customary) law, (but) sometimes the (Divine) Power breaks the law.

He hath established a goodly law and custom; then He hath made the (evidentiary) miracle a breach of the custom.

If honour does not reach us without a (mediating) cause, (yet) the (Divine) Power is not remote from the removal of the cause.

O thou who art caught by the cause, do not fly outside (of causation); but (at the same time) do not suppose the removal of the Causer.

The Causer brings (into existence) whatsoever He will: the Absolute Power tears up (destroys) the causes;

But, for the most part, He lets the execution (of His will) follow the course of causation, in order that a seeker may be able to pursue the object of his desire.

When there is no cause, what way should the seeker pursue? Therefore he must have a visible cause in the way (that he is pursuing).

These causes are veils on the eyes, for not every eye is worthy of (contemplating) His work.

An eye that can penetrate the cause is needed to extirpate (these) veils from root and bottom,

So that it may behold the Causer in (the world of) non-spatiality and regard exertion and earnings and shops as (mere) nonsense.

Everything good or evil comes from the Causer: causes and means, O father, are naught

But a phantom that has materialised on the King's highway in order that the period of heedlessness (the reign of ignorance) may endure for some (little) time.