Parable of the foal's refusing to drink the water because of the bawling of the grooms.
As he has said in his discourse, the foal and its mother were
drinking the water.
Those persons (the grooms) were bawling incessantly at the horses, “Come on! Hey, drink!” (The noise of) that bawling
reached the foal: it was lifting
its
head and refusing to drink.
4295. Its mother
asked, “O foal, why art you always refusing
to drink this water?” The foal said, “These people are bawling: I am afraid of the occurrence of
their shouts.
Therefore my heart
is trembling and
jumping: dread of the
occurrence of the
outcry is coming on
me.”
The mother said, “Ever since the world existed,
there have been
busybodies of this sort on the
earth.”
Hark, do your
own business, O
worthy man: soon will
they tear their beards
(in sorrow).
4300. The time is restricted, and the abundant
water is flowing away: (drink)
ere, through being parted (from
it), you fall to pieces.
There is a famous
conduit, full of the Water of Life: draw the
Water, in order
that verdure may grow
up from you.
We are drinking the
water of Khizr from the river of the speech
of the saints: come,
O heedless
thirsty man!
If you do
not
see the water, artfully after the
fashion of the blind bring
the
jug to the river,
and dip it in the river.
Forasmuch as you
have heard that there
is water in this river-bed, (go
and try): the
blind man
must practise conformity.
4305. Carry down to the river the
water-skin that
has thoughts of the water, so that you
may find your water-skin heavy.
When you have
found it heavy,
you will
be
led to infer (the truth):
at that moment
your heart is delivered
from dry conformity.
If the blind man
does not see the river-water
ocularly, yet he
knows, when he finds
the jug
heavy,
That some water has gone from
the river into the jug; for this (jug)
was light,
and
(now) it has become heavy and
swollen with water;
“Because,” (he will say),
“every wind used
to
sweep me away, (but now)
the
wind does not
sweep me away: my weight
has increased.”
4310. The foolish are swept away by every gust of desire, because
they have no weight
(ballast) of (intellectual) faculties.
The wicked man is an anchorless ship, for he
finds no precaution (means
of defence) against
the perverse (contrary) wind.
To the intelligent man the anchor of intelligence
is security: beg (such) an anchor from the intelligent.
Since he (the Sage)
has borne away
the succours (supplies) of intelligence from the pearl- treasury of that Sea of Bounty,
By such succours
(replenishments) the heart is filled
with
knowledge: it (that
knowledge) shoots
from the
heart, and the eye too
becomes illuminated,
4315. Because the light from the
heart has settled upon this eye so
that your eye,
having become the heart, is (physically) inactive.
When the heart too has come into contact with the intellectual Lights, it bestows a portion
thereof on the eyes
also.
Know, then, that
the blessed Water
from Heaven is the inspiration of
(men's) hearts and the
true
explanation (of every mystery).
Let us also,
like that foal,
drink the water
of the stream; let us pay no regard
to the evil suggestions of the railer.
(If) you are a follower
of
the prophets, tread
the Way: deem all the railing
of
(human) creatures to be a (vain and empty)
wind.
4320. When have
the Masters who
have traversed the Way lent ear to the
clamour of
curs?
The remainder of the story of the guest in the guest-killing mosque.
Relate what appeared
in the mosque to
that self-sacrificing valiant man,
and
what he did.
He slept in the mosque, (but)
where (how) in sooth
had he sleep? How should a submerged man sleep
in the river?
Always, for the lovers (of
God) beneath the flood
of a (great) passion, there is (only)
the
sleep of
birds and fishes.
At midnight
came an awful voice, “I come, I come
upon you, O you that
seekest advantage.”
4325. Five times
came such a terrible voice, and
his heart
was being rent piecemeal.
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