بخش 167 - حجت منکران آخرت و بیان ضعف آن حجت زیرا حجت ایشان به دین باز می‌گردد کی غیر این نمی‌بینیم

This is his (the hypocrite's) argument: he says at every moment, “If there were anything else, I should have seen it.”

If a child does not see the various aspects of reason, will a rational person ever abandon reason?

And if a rational person does not see the various aspects of Love, (yet) the auspicious moon of Love does not wane.

Joseph's beauty was not seen by the eyes of his brethren, (but) when did it (ever) disappear from the heart of Jacob?

The (physical) eye of Moses regarded the staff (rod) as wood; the eye of the Invisible beheld (in it) a serpent and (cause of) panic.

The eye of the head was in conflict with the eye of the heart: the eye of the heart prevailed (over the other) and displayed the proof.

The (physical) eye of Moses regarded his hand as a hand, (but) to the eye of the Invisible it was a manifest light.

This matter hath no limit in perfection, (yet) it seems like a fancy to every one that is deprived (of the reality).

Since to him the reality is the pudendum and the gullet, do not expound the mysteries of the Beloved to him.

To us the pudendum and the gullet are a (mere) fancy; consequently the (Beloved) Soul displays His beauty (to us) at every moment.

Any one whose custom and habit is (addiction to) the pudendum and the gullet, for him (the fit answer) is “Unto you (your) religion and unto me (my) religion.”

Cut short thy talk with such (incarnate) scepticism: do not converse, O Ahmad, with the ancient infidel.