بخش 135 - خطاب حق تعالی به عزرائیل علیه‌السلام کی ترا رحم بر کی بیشتر آمد ازین خلایق کی جانشان قبض کردی و جواب دادن عزرائیل حضرت را

God was saying to Azrael, “O marshal, whom of all the miserable ones didst thou pity (most)?”

He replied, “My heart burns with grief for them all, but I am afraid to neglect the (Divine) command,

So that I should say, ‘Would that God might sacrifice me in exchange for the (generous) youth!’”

God asked, “For whom didst thou feel the greatest pity? On account of whom was thy heart most filled with flame and grilled?”

“One day,” said he, “by (Thy) command I wrecked a ship on the fierce waves, so that it went to pieces.

Then Thou bad’st me take the souls of them all, except one woman and one child belonging to that company.

The twain were left on a plank, and the plank was being driven on by the waves.

Then Thou saidst, ‘Take the mother's soul and leave the child alone in obedience to the command Be!’

When I parted the child from its mother, Thou thyself knowest how bitter ’twas to me.

Often have I seen sighs (heaved) in great mournings, (but) the bitter grief of that child has never gone from my recollection.”

God said, “Of My grace I bade the waves cast that child into a forest—

A forest abounding in lilies and sweet basils and roses, full of trees laden with fruit good to eat,

And fountains of sweet limpid water. I fostered the child with a hundred endearments.

Myriads of melodious singing-birds poured forth a hundred songs in that garden.

I made for him a couch of wild-rose leaves; I made him secure from the shock of afflictions.

I told the sun not to scorch him; I told the wind to blow on him gently;

I told the clouds not to rain upon him; I told the lightning not to dart at him.

I said, ‘O December, do not cut off the mild weather from this orchard; O November, do not let thy fist fall on this garden.’”