بخش 225 - نواختن معشوق عاشق بیهوش را تا به هوش باز آید

The Sadr-i Jahan, from kindness, was drawing him little by little from senselessness into (the capacity for) clear expression.

The Prince cried into his ear, “0 beggar, I bring gold to scatter o’er thee; spread out thy skirt.

Thy spirit, which was quivering (with distress) in separation. from me—since I have come to protect it, how has it fled?

O thou who hast suffered heat and cold in separation from me, come to thyself from selflessness and return!”

The domestic fowl, in the manner of a host, foolishly brings a camel to her house.

When the camel set foot in the hen’s house, the house was destroyed and the roof fell in.

The hen’s house is our (weak) intelligence and understanding the good intelligence is a seeker of God’s she-camel

When the she-camel put her head into its water and clay, neither its clay remained there (in existence) nor its soul and heart.

Pre-eminence in love made Man overweening: because of this desire for excess he is very unjust and very ignorant.

He is ignorant, and in this difficult chase the hare is clasping a lion in his arms.

How would he clasp the lion in his arms, if he knew and saw the lion?

He is unjust to himself and to his own soul: behold an in-justice that bears away the ball (the palm) from (all) justices!

His ignorance is the teacher to (all) knowledges, his injustice has become the right way for (all) justices.

He (the Sadr-i Jahán) took his (the lover’s) hand, saying, “This man whose breath has departed will (only) then come (to life) when I give him (spiritual) breath.

When this man whose body is dead shall become l through Me, (then) it will be My spirit that turns its face towards Me.

By means of this spirit I make him possessed of high estate:(only) the spirit that I give sees (experiences) My bounty.

The unfamiliar (unprivileged) spirit does not see the face of the Beloved: (none sees it) except that spirit whose origin is from His dwelling-place.

Butcher-like, I breathe upon this dear friend, in order that his goodly inward part may leave the skin.”

He said, “0 spirit that hast fled from tribulation, We have opened the door to union with Us; welcome!

O thou whose selflessness and intoxication is (caused by) Our Self, O thou whose being is incessantly (derived) from Our Being,

Now, without lip, I tell thee the old mysteries anew: hearken!

(I tell thee silently) because those (bodily) lips are fleeing from (are unable to apprehend) this Breath (Word); it is breathed forth on the lip (bank) of the hidden River.

At this moment open the ear of earlessness for the sake of ‘(hearing) the mystery of God doeth what He -willeth.”

When he began to hear the call to union, little ‘by little, the dead man began to stir.

He (the lover of God) is not less than the earth which at the zephyr’s blandishments puts on (a garment of) green and lifts up it head from death;

He is not less than the seminal water from which at the (Divine) bidding there are born Josephs with faces like the sun;

He is not less than a wind (from which) at the command “Be!” peacocks and sweet- voiced birds came to being in the (bird’s) womb

He is not less than the mountain of rock which by parturition brought forth the she-camel that brought forth a she-camel

Leave all this behind. Did not the substance of non bring forth, and will it not bring forth continually, a (whole)Universe?

He (the man of Bukhárá) sprang up and quivered and whirled once or twice (in dance) joyously, joyously; (then) fell to worship.