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Since you have become non-existent to your own being, Gird the belt of effort and stand on the path. Since you stood with a girded belt, You placed a crown on the heart's head. Place the crown of fortune on the heart's head; Step on adversity and put it in the mud. If you need the bowstring to become loose, First, give the fur coat to the cleaner. Though the heedless laughs at this action, Yet the wise accepts nothing but this. Open the fur coat so that at the King's door, There are many fur-wearers along the path. At the first step that Adam took, The wolf of tyranny tore his fur coat. Was it not that when Cain thirsted for cruelty, Abel gave his fur coat to annihilation? Was it not that when Enoch cast off his fur coat, He saw the door of Paradise without any lock? When Abraham tore his fur coats Without any grief, from stars, moon, and sun? His night became as bright as day, And Nimrod's fire became a fresh rose garden. Look at Solomon, who out of justice Gave the fur coat of hope to the cleaner. Jinn, humans, birds, ants, and locusts, Under the water of the Red Sea and on the mountain ridge, All became exalted towards his face, And all became obedient to his counsel. When the water-like nature burned from the heart's fire, He put dust on the shoulder of the wind of the heavens. When Moses, the noble, nurtured in grief, Turned his face towards Midian with sorrow and pain, He pulled off the fur coat of hired service Out of his suffering nature. He served Jethro for ten years, Until the door of the Unseen opened to his heart. His hand became like a seeing eye, And his foot became the crown on the head of Sinai. When the Spirit breathed from the spiritual ocean And accepted the divine grace, He sent the fur coat at the very first station Towards the cleaner of the heart. When the heart gave him divine glory, It also gave him kingship in his childhood. By eternal power, without him, he became Exalted by hidden praise and manifest grace. Through him, the leper's body became like the shadow of the floor, And the blind eye became like the base of the Throne. Whoever like him seeks shame in fame, Will bring forth ten colors from a single vat. Dung became fragrant like musk through him, And the dead spoke like the living. He made the clay of the heart sprout by the grace of the soul, And he drew the heart of the clay out by the hand of the soul. When destiny sealed the shop, With the hand of fate in the descent of annihilation, The world remained full of desire and whim, And the market became full of oppressors and watchmen. He sent a prefect to this world In order to repel tyranny. When he appeared from the sky of the heart, Intoxicated in soul and manifest in body, He himself had no fur coat in the path of religion, So what could he have given to the cleaners of the earth? When he came from annihilation to subsistence, He became the ornament and beauty of this ephemeral world. Whoever became silent for his sake, His speech would be life and sweet nectar. If he does not speak, it is not from laziness, And if he speaks, it is not from ignorance. Did you see, O master of plump speech, That you have grandeur in your heart from speech? In silence, he was not thinking of amusement; At the time of speaking, he was not uttering vain nonsense. By effort, striving, love, and seeking, He bound the skirt of night to the collar of day. He balanced day and night with the ruler of justice, Better than any exaggeration. When they find the scent of life from his inside, The tongueless will all find a tongue. Have no doubt in this discourse of mine; Open your eyes and pay attention. On his path, lovers have recited upon their souls The verse: 'Everyone upon it must pass away.' Those fools who are thieves and cutpurses Keep reason only to highway-rob. His handiwork is justice and wisdom, manifest; His sovereignty is wrath and glory, hidden. The form of water and clay is naked from His wrath, The puppet of eye and heart is blind to His essence. The stained intellect, seeking the vision, Has become like Moses, saying, 'Show me.' When the messenger emerged from the divine manifestation, He whispered in his ear, 'I turn to You in repentance.' Know the attribute of His essence through knowledge; Recite His holy names, one thousand and one. Describing Him under a banner is not good; Whatever has come to your ear is not Him. Point, line, and surface, in relation to His attribute, Are like body, dimension, and its six directions. The originator of those three from beyond space, The creator of these three from within time. No wise person sees any fault in Him; He knows what is within the unseen world. Aware of consciences and secrets Even before they pass through your heart.