Showing that, as the beggar is in love with bounty and in love with the bountiful giver, so the bounty of the bountiful giver is in love with the beggar: if the beggar have the greater patience, the bountiful giver will come to his door; and if the bountiful giver have the greater patience, the beggar will come to his door; but the beggar's patience is a virtue in the beggar, while the patience of the bountiful giver is in him a defect.
A loud call was coming (to his ears): “Come, O seeker! Bounty is in need of beggars: (it is needy) like a beggar.
Bounty is seeking the beggars and the poor, just as fair ones who seek a clear mirror.
The face of the fair is made beautiful by the mirror, the face of Beneficence is made visible by the beggar.
Therefore on this account God said in the Súra ?a’d-Duhá, “O Mohammed, do not shout at (and drive away) the beggar.”
Inasmuch as the beggar is the mirror of Bounty, take care! Breath is hurtful to the face of the mirror.
In the one case, his (the giver's) bounty makes the beggar manifest (causes him to beg), while in the other case he (the giver), (without being asked), bestows on the beggars more (than they need).
Beggars, then, are the mirror of God's bounty, and they that are with God are (united with) the Absolute Bounty;
And every one except those two (types of beggar) is truly a dead man: he is not at this door (the Divine Court), he is (lifeless as) a picture (embroidered) on a curtain.
