How the people of this world attack the people of that (other) world and charge
(against them) as far as the frontier, namely, generation and
propagation, which is
the boundary of the Unseen, and how they (the people of this world) are unaware of the ambush (prepared for them); for the infidel makes his assault (only) when the holy warrior does not go to war.
The army of the
corporeal ones attacked in the direction of the
fortress and
stronghold of the spiritual ones,
In order that they might occupy the frontier-pass of the Unseen, so that no pure spirit should come (into the world)
from that quarter.
When the holy warriors
do not attack
in warfare, the infidels on the contrary
deliver an attack.
When the holy warriors
of the Unseen in their forbearance refrained
from delivering an
attack on you,
man of evil practice,
2445. You madest an attack towards the frontier-passes of the Unseen, in order that the men of the Unseen should not come in this direction.
You didst lay a (violent) hand upon the loins
and wombs, that you might’st wickedly occupy
(close) the thoroughfare (of sexual intercourse).
How should’st you occupy (close) the highway which the Almighty has
opened for the purpose
of
procreation?
You didst block the passes, O contumacious one,
(but) in despite of you a
captain issued
forth.
Lo, I am the captain:
I will break
your power. Lo, in His name I will break your name and fame.
2450. Come now,
close the passes tightly! Laugh at your moustache (be
the dupe of
your vainglory) a (little) while!
The Divine
decree will tear out
your moustache piecemeal, that you mayst know
that the Decree makes precaution blind.
Is your moustache fiercer
than that of
(the people of) ‘Ád,
at
whose breath (all) the lands
used to
tremble?
Art you more contentious in aspect
or (the tribe of) Thamúd,
the like of whom never came into
existence?
Though I tell (you) a hundred of these
(proofs), you art
deaf: you hearest and pretendest not
to have heard.
2455. I repent of the words which I raised
up: (now), without
words, I have mixed for you a medicine
Which I will place upon
your raw sore, that it may be assuaged, or that
your sore and your beard may be burnt (destroyed
entirely) unto everlasting,
To the end that
you mayst know that
He is omniscient, O enemy: He gives to
everything that which befits it.
When have you done wrong and when have you
wrought evil but you
have seen (suffered) the effect befitting
it?
When have you once sent a good deed to
Heaven but the like thereof has followed
after?
2460. If you wilt be observant and vigilant, you wilt see at every
moment the response to
your action.
When you art observant and do grasp the cord (of apprehension), you needest not the coming of the
Resurrection (to
reveal
the
ultimate effects).
He that truly knows
(the meaning of) an indication does not
need to have it plainly
declared to
him.
This tribulation befalls you from (your) stupidity in not understanding the subtle hints and indications.
When your heart has been blackened and darkened by wickedness, understand! One ought not to become
besotted here;
2465. Otherwise,
in
sooth,
that darkness will become an arrow
(of woe), and the penalty
of
(your) besottedness will overtake you.
And if the
arrow come not, it is from (God's) bounty; not because
of (His) not seeing the defilement (of your sin).
Hark, be observant if you wouldst have a
(pure) heart, for something is
born to you in consequence of every action.
And if you have an aspiration
greater than this, (and
if) the enterprise goes beyond
(the spiritual rank of) the observant,
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