بخش 101 - رجوع کردن به قصهٔ آن پای‌مرد و آن غریب وام‌دار و بازگشتن ایشان از سر گور خواجه و خواب دیدن پای‌مرد خواجه را الی آخره

This goodly episode is endless (too long to relate in full). When the poor stranger turned back from the Khwája's grave,

The bailiff took him to his house and handed over to him the purse of a hundred dinars.

He fetched viands for him and told him stories, so that from the (feeling of) hope (with which the bailiff inspired him) a hundred roses blossomed in his heart.

He (the bailiff) opened his lips to relate the ease (prosperity) which he had experienced after difficulty (adversity).

Midnight passed, and (he was still) narrating: (then) sleep transported them to the meadow where the spirit feeds.

On that night the bailiff dreamed that he saw the blessed Khwája (seated) on the high-seat in the (heavenly) palace.

The Khwája said, “O excellent bailiff, I have heard what you said, point by point,

But I was not commanded to answer, and I durst not open my lips without being directed.

Now that we have become acquainted with the conditions and degrees (of the spiritual world), a seal has been laid upon our lips,

Lest the mysteries of the Unseen should be divulged and (thereby) the life and livelihood (of mortals) be destroyed,

And lest the veil of forgetfulness should be entirely rent and (the meat in) the pot of tribulation be left half- raw.

We are all ear, (though) the (material) form of the ear has become deaf: we are all speech, but our lips are silent.

We now see (the result of) everything that we gave (during our life in the world): this (material) world is the veil, and that (spiritual) world is the vision.

The day of sowing is the day of concealment and scattering seed in a piece of earth.

The season of reaping and the time of plying the sickle is the day of recompense and manifestation.