بخش 85 - قصهٔ دقوقی رحمة الله علیه و کراماتش

That Daqúqí had a fair front; he was a (spiritual) lord who loved (God) and possessed miraculous gifts.

He walked on earth as the moon in heaven: by him the spirits of the night-travellers became illumined.

He would not make his abode in any one place, he would not spend two days in a village.

He said, “If I stay two days in one house, love of that dwelling-place is kindled in me.

I am afraid of being beguiled by the dwelling-place: migrate, O my soul, and travel to independence.

I will not accustom my heart's nature to locality, (and I do this) in order that it may be pure in the (hour of) trial.”

During the day he was (engaged) in travel, during the night in ritual prayer: his eye (was) open on the King, and he (himself was) like the falcon.

(He was) severed from the creatures (of God), (but) not on account of ill nature; isolated from man and woman, (but) not because of dualism.

A compassionate man to the creatures and beneficial (to them) as water; a goodly intercessor, and his prayers were answered.

(He was) kind to the good and the bad, and a sure refuge (for them); (he was) better than a mother, dearer than a father.

The Prophet said, “O sirs, to you I am compassionate and kind as a father,

Because ye all are parts of me.” Why (then) will ye tear the part away from the whole?

(When) the part is severed from the whole, it becomes useless; (when) the limb is severed from the body, it becomes carrion.

Till it is joined once more to the whole, it is dead: it has no consciousness of life;

And if it move, yet it has no support: the newly severed limb also moves.

If the part be severed and fall asunder from this (spiritual) whole, this is not the (kind of) whole that is liable to defect.

Separation from it and conjunction with it are not (really) predicable; the defective thing has been mentioned (only) for the sake of comparison.