بخش 22 - دعوی طاوسی کردن آن شغال کی در خم صباغ افتاده بود

“Prithee look at me and at my colour: truly the idolater possesses no idol like me.

Behold my glory and splendour and sheen and radiance and colour! Call me the Pride of the World and the Pillar of the Religion!

I have become the theatre of the Divine Grace, I have become the tablet on which the Divine Majesty is unfolded.

Those jackals came thither en masse, like moths around the candle.

“Say then, what shall we call thee, O creature of (pure) substance?” He replied, “ A peacock (brilliant) as Jupiter.”

Then they said to him, “The spiritual peacocks have displays (with the Beloved) in the Rose- garden:

“Then, Master Bu’l-‘Alam thou art not a peacock.

The peacock’s garment of honour comes from Heaven: how wilt thou attain thereto by means of colours and pretences?”