بخش 56 - عذر گفتن نظم کننده و مدد خواستن

O Thou that makest demands within (me), like the embryo— since Thou art making a demand, make easy

The fulfilment of this (task), show the way, give aidance, or (else) relinquish the demand and do not lay (the burden) upon me!

Since Thou art demanding gold from an insolvent, give him gold in secret, O rich King!

Without Thee, how should poesy and rhyme dare to come into sight at eve or morn?

Poesy and homonymy and rhymes, O Knowing One, are the slaves of Thy Command from fear and dread,

Inasmuch as Thou hast made everything a glorifier (of Thee) —the undiscerning entity and the discerning (alike).

Each glorifies (Thee) in a different fashion, and that one is unaware of the state of this one.

Man disbelieves in the glorification uttered by inanimate things, but those inanimate things are masters in (performing) worship.

Nay, the two-and-seventy sects, every one, are unaware of (the real state of) each other and in a (great) doubt.

Since two speakers have no knowledge of each other's state, how will (it) be (with) wall and door?

Since I am heedless of the glorification uttered by one who speaks, how should my heart know the glorification performed by that which is mute?

The Sunní is unaware of the Jabrí's (mode of) glorification; the Jabrí is unaffected by the Sunní's (mode of) glorification.

The Sunní has a particular (mode of) glorification; the Jabrí has the opposite thereof in (taking) refuge (with God).

This one (the Jabrí) says, “He (the Sunní) is astray and lost,” (being) unaware of his (real) state and of the (Divine) command, “Arise (and preach)!”

And that one (the Sunní) says, “What awareness has this one (the Jabrí)?” God, by fore- ordainment, hath cast them into strife.

He maketh manifest the real nature of each, He displays the congener by (contrast with) the uncongenial.

Every one knows (can distinguish) mercy from vengeance, whether he be wise or ignorant or vile,

But a mercy that has become hidden in vengeance, or a vengeance that has sunk into the heart of mercy,

No one knows except the divine (deified) man in whose heart is a spiritual touchstone.

The rest hold (only) an opinion of these two (qualities): they fly to their nest with a single wing.