بخش 53 - در بیان آنک مرد بدکار چون متمکن شود در بدکاری و اثر دولت نیکوکاران ببیند شیطان شود و مانع خیر گردد از حسد هم‌چون شیطان کی خرمن سوخته همه را خرمن سوخته خواهد أَرَأَیْتَ الَّذي یَنْهی عَبْداً إِذا صَلّی

When you see that the loyal have profited, thereat you become envious, like a devil.

Whenever a man's temperament and constitution is feeble, he does not wish any one to be sound in body.

If you dislike (to have) the jealousy of Iblís, come (away) from the door of pretension (and advance) to the portal of loyalty.

When thou hast not loyalty, at least do not talk (presumptuously), for words are for the most part self- assertion—‘we’ and ‘I.’

These words, (whilst they stay) in the breast, are an income consisting of (spiritual) kernels: in silence the spiritual kernel grows a hundredfold.

When it (the word) comes on to the tongue, the kernel is expended: refrain from expending, in order that the goodly kernel may remain (with you).

The man who speaks little hath strong thoughts: when the husk, namely speech, becomes excessive, the kernel goes.

(When) the rind is excessive, the kernel is thin: the rind becomes thin when it (the kernel) becomes perfect and goodly.

Look at these three (fruits) when they have passed beyond immaturity: the walnut and the almond and the pistachio.

Whoever disobeys (God) becomes a devil, for he becomes envious of the fortune of the righteous.

When you have acted loyally in (keeping) your covenant with God, God will graciously keep His covenant with you.

You have shut your eyes to keeping faith with God, you have not hearkened to (the words) remember Me, I will remember you.

Give ear, listen to (the words) keep My covenant, in order that (the words) I will keep your covenant may come from the Friend.

What is our covenant and loan, O sorrowful one? (It is) like sowing a dry seed in the earth.

From that (sowing) neither do glory and grandeur accrue to the earth, nor riches to the owner of the earth.

(’Tis nothing) except an indication, as though to say, ‘I need this kind (of produce), the origin whereof

Thou didst create from non-existence.

I ate, and (now) I bring the seed as a token, begging Thee to send to us such bounty (as before).’ Abandon, then, the dry (verbal) prayer, O fortunate one; for the tree demands (presupposes) the scattering of seed.

(But) if you have no seed, on account of that prayer God will bestow on you a palm-tree, saying, ‘How well did he labour!’

Like Mary: she had (heartfelt) pain, but no seed: an artful One made green that (withered) palm- tree (for her sake).

Because that noble Lady was loyal (to God), God gave unto her a hundred desires without desire on her part.

The company who have been loyal are given superiority over all (other) sorts (of men).

Seas and mountains are made subject to them; the four elements also are the slaves of that class.

This (miraculous power) is only a favour (conferred on them) for a sign, to the end that the disbelievers may see it plainly.

Those hidden graces of theirs, which come not into (the perception of) the senses or into description—

Those are the (real) matter: those are enduring for ever, they are neither cut off nor reclaimed.