بخش 48 - تفسیر وَ هُوَ مَعَکُمْ

There is a basket full of loaves on the crown of thy head, and thou art begging a crust of bread from door to door.

Attend to thine own head, abandon giddy-headedness; go, knock at the door of thy heart: why art thou (knocking) at every door?

Whilst thou art up to the knee in the river-water, thou art heedless of thyself and art seeking water from this one and that one.

Water in front; and behind, too, an unfailing supply of water; (but) before thine eyes is a barrier and behind them a barrier.

The horse is under the (rider's) thigh, and the rider is seeking the horse. (When asked), “What is this?” he says, “A horse, but where is the horse?”

“Eh, is not this a horse under thee, plain to see?” “Yes,” says he, “but who ever saw a horse?”

He (such a one) is mad with thirst for the water, and it (the water) is before his face: he is in the water and unconscious of the running water.

Like the pearl in the sea, he says, “Where is the sea?” and that shell-like phantasy is his wall.

His saying “Where?” becomes for him a screen: it becomes for him a cloud over the radiance of the sun.

His bad (sensual) eye is a bandage on his (inward) eye: his very (awareness of) removing the barrier has become a barrier for him.

His (self-)consciousness has become the plug of his (inward) ear: keep thy consciousness (directed) towards God (alone), O thou who art bewildered in Him.