بخش 72 - جواب آن مغفل کی گفته است کی خوش بودی این جهان اگر مرگ نبودی وخوش بودی ملک دنیا اگر زوالش نبودی و علی هذه الوتیرة من الفشارات

A certain man was saying, “The world would be delightful, were it not for the intervention of death.”

The other said, “If there were no death, the tangled world would not be worth a straw.

It would be (like) a stack heaped up in the field and neglected and left unthreshed.

You have supposed (what is really) death to be life: you have sown your seed in a barren soil.

The false (discursive) reason, indeed, sees the reverse (of the truth): it sees life as death, O man of weak judgement.”

Do Thou, O God, show (unto us) everything as it really is in this house of illusion.

None that has died is filled with grief on account of death; his grief is caused by having too little provision (for the life hereafter);

Otherwise (he would not grieve, for) he has come from a dungeon into the open country amidst fortune and pleasure and delight;

From this place of mourning and (this) narrow vale (of tribulation) he has been transported to the spacious plain.

(’Tis) a seat of truth, not a palace of falsehood; a choice wine, not an intoxication with buttermilk.

(’Tis) the seat of truth, and (there) God is beside him: he is delivered from this water and earth of the fire-temple.

And if you have not (yet) led the illuminative life, one or two moments (still) remain: die (to self) like a man!