The resemblance of the bad judgement of this base vizier in corrupting the king's generosity to (that of) the vizier of Pharaoh, namely, Hámán, in corrupting the readiness of Pharaoh to receive (the true Faith).
1240. How many a
time did Pharaoh
soften
and become
submissive when he was hearing that
Word from Moses!—
That Word (which was
such) that from
the sweetness of that
incomparable Word the
rock would have yielded milk.
Whenever he took counsel with
Hámán, who was his vizier and whose nature
it was to hate, Then he (Hámán) would say, “Until now you have been the Khedive: wilt you become, through deception, the slave to
a wearer of rags?”
Those words would come
like a stone shot by a mangonel
(ballista) and strike
upon his glass
house.
1245. All that the Kalím of sweet
address built up in a hundred
days he (Hámán) would destroy in one moment.
Thy intellect is the vizier and is overcome by sensuality: in (the realm of) your being it is a brigand
(that attacks thee) on the Way to God.
(If) a godly monitor
give you good advice, it will artfully put those words (of his) aside,
Saying, “These (words) are not well-founded: take heed, don't
be carried
away
(by them); they are not (worth) so much:
come to yourself (be sensible), don't be
crazed.”
Alas for the king whose
vizier is this
(carnal intellect):
the place
(abode) of them both is vengeful
Hell.
1250. Happy is the king
whose helper in affairs is a vizier like Ásaf.
When the just king is associated
with him, his (the king's)
name is light upon light.
A king like
Solomon and a vizier like Ásaf
are light upon light and ambergris upon ‘abír. (When) the king (is like) Pharaoh and his vizier like Hámán, ill-fortune is inevitable for both. Then it is (a case of) darkness, one part over another: neither intellect nor fortune
shall be their
friend on the Day of Judgement.
1255. I have
not seen aught
but misery in the vile: if you have seen (aught else),
convey (to them) the
salaam (of felicitation)
from me.
The king is as the spirit, and the vizier
as the intellect: the corrupt
intellect
brings the spirit into movement
(towards corruption).
When the angelical intellect
became a Hárút,
it became the
teacher in magic
to two hundred
devils.
Do not take the particular (individual) intellect as your vizier: make the Universal Intellect
your vizier, O king.
Do not make sensuality your
vizier, else
your pure spirit will cease from
prayer,
1260. For this
sensuality is full
of greed and
sees (only) the
immediate present, (whereas)
the
Intellect takes thought for the Day of Judgement.
The two eyes of the Intellect are (fixed) on
the
end of things: it endures
the pain of the thorn for
the sake of
that Rose
Which does not
fade and drop in
autumn—far from it be the wind
(breath) of every nose
that
cannot smell!
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