بخش 72 - به اقرار آوردن معاویه ابلیس را

Why did you awaken me? You are the enemy of wakefulness, O trickster.

You are like poppy-seeds: you put every one to sleep. You are like wine: you take away understanding and knowledge.

I have impaled you. Come, tell the truth, I know what is true: do not seek evasions.

I expect from every person (only) that of which by nature and disposition he is the owner.

I do not look for any sugar from vinegar; I do not take the catamite for a soldier.

I do not, like (idolatrous) infidels, seek (expect) from an idol that it should be God or even a sign from God.

I do not seek the smell of musk from dung; I do not seek dry bricks in river water.

From Satan, who is other (than good), I do not look for this— that he should awaken me with good (intent).”

(At length), with the bitterest pangs* he (Iblís) said: “O such-and-such, know that I awakened you for the purpose