بخش 85 - تعجیل فرمودن پادشاه ایاز را کی زود این حکم را به فیصل رسان و منتظر مدار و ‌«ایام بیننا‌» مگو کی ‌«الانتظار موت الاحمر‌»‌، و جواب گفتن ایاز شاه را

He said, “O King, the command belongs entirely to thee: when the sun is there, the star is naughted.

Who is Venus or Mercury or a meteor that they should come forth in the presence of the sun?

If I had omitted (to look at) the cloak and sheepskin, how should I have sown such seeds of blame?

What was the (use of) putting a lock on the door of the chamber amidst a hundred envious persons addicted to false imagination?

Every one of them, having put his hand into the river-water, seeks (to find there) a dry sod.

How, then, should there be a dry sod in the river? How should a fish become disobedient to the sea?

They impute iniquity to poor me, before whom loyalty (itself) is ashamed.”

Were it not for the trouble caused by a person unfamiliar (with my meaning), I would have spoken a few words concerning loyalty;

(But) since a world (multitude of people) is seeking (to raise) doubt and difficulty, we will let the discourse run beyond the skin.

If you break your (material) self, you will become a kernel and will hear the tale of a goodly kernel.

The voices of walnuts are in their skins (shells): where, indeed, is any voice in the kernel and the oil?

It (the kernel) has a voice, (but one that is) not suited to the (bodily) ear: its voice is hidden in the ear of ecstasy.

Were it not for the sweetness of a kernel's voice, who would listen to the rattling voice of a walnut-shell?

You endure the rattling of it (only) in order that you may silently come into touch with a kernel.

Be without lip and without ear for a while, and then, like the lip, be the companion of honey.

How long have you been uttering poetry and prose and (proclaiming) mysteries! O master, try the experiment and, for one day, be dumb!