بخش 49 - در تفسیر قول مصطفی علیه‌السلام من جعل الهموم هما واحدا کفاه الله سائر همومه و من تفرقت به الهموم لا یبالی الله فی ای واد اهلکه

Thou hast distributed thy consciousness in (all) directions: those vanities are not worth a cress.

Every thorn-root draws the water of thy consciousness (towards itself): how should the water of thy consciousness reach the fruit?

Hark, smite that evil bough, lop it off: water this goodly bough, refresh it.

Both are green at this (present) time, (but) look to the end (and see) that this one will come to naught, (while) fruit will grow from that one.

To this one the water in the orchard is lawful, to that one (it is) unlawful. In the end thou wilt see the difference, and (so) farewell.

What is justice? Giving water to trees. What is injustice? To give water to thorns.

Justice is (consists in) bestowing a bounty in its proper place, not on every root that will absorb water.

What is injustice? To bestow (it) in an improper place that can only be a source of calamity.

Bestow the bounty of God on the spirit and reason, not on the (carnal) nature full of disease and complications.

Load the conflict of (worldly) cares upon thy body: do not lay thy anxiety upon the heart and spirit.

The pack is laid upon the head of Jesus, (while) the ass is frisking in the meadow.

’Tis not right to put collyrium in the ear: ’tis not right to demand from the body the work of the heart (spirit).

If thou art a (devotee of the) heart, go, scorn (the world), do not suffer contumely (from it); and if thou art a (devotee of the) body, do not eat sugar but taste poison.

Poison is beneficial to the body, and sugar noxious: ’tis better that the body should be deprived of supplies.

The body is fuel for Hell, do thou weaken it; and if it produce a (new) growth of fuel, go, destroy it.

Else, O (thou who art) firewood, thou wilt be a carrier of firewood in both worlds, like the wife of Bú Lahab.

Know (discriminate) the bough of the Sidra from the firewood, though both are green, O youth.

The origin of that bough is the Seventh Heaven, the origin of this bough is from fire and smoke.

To sense-perception they are similar in appearance, for the eye and habit of sense-perception is seeing falsely;

(But) that (difference) is manifest to the eye of the heart (spirit): exert thyself, advance towards the heart (spirit) with the exertion of one whose means are small.

And if thou hast no foot (means), (yet) bestir thyself that thou mayst behold every less and more.