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The seeker, with a face colored by the blood of his heart, Went before Adam with a constricted life. He said: O Sun of insight who has come, The pole of all creation who has come. You became the recipient of the trust of the burden, You came in trust without betrayal. You are the master of this world and that world, Yet, wonder of wonders, you are superior to both. All the angels are in your service, And both worlds are full of your blessings. The Resurrection is the display of your army, Hell and Heaven are at the ends of your two paths. Both Speech and Vision are from the Presence for you, 'Be and it is' is in the grip of your power. Both the sky and the earth shall be rolled up, Yet from you, even a hair shall not be diminished. All will be sacrificed for your sake, Until eternity, they will build with your work. From the beginning, eating the kingdom of eternity is yours, Seeking better than better is yours. It was from you, O possessor of treasure and man of action, That the hidden treasure of reality became manifest. Since there was a perfection higher than the world, A thirsty soul of a deficient one was needed for it, So that it might take according to its own capacity, And bring its full moon out from the crescent into the plain. The soul knows the value of proximity from the distance of the way, And always keeps a watchful eye on proximity with its soul. Man came from both worlds as the man for this, There is no one but man worthy of this. Since you have found such a way toward a treasure, And have endured such suffering on the path of the treasure, If you give me a way toward the treasure, You will deliver me from the well of status until eternity. At these words, Adam became unconscious from him, His heart came to a boil like a sea from him. He said: At last, from the manifest and the hidden, Who is more bewildered than us in the world? Bound by obligation and thought we have come, Neither lost nor manifest have we come. With a world full of punishment before the door, At every moment, the fear of difficulty is greater. Both in this world under a hundred veils, And in that world a prisoner of a hundred accounts. Our sun becomes dark in state, If there were a single atom's decline in faith. From such a task that has fallen to us, A fire has fallen into the flint stone. The stone could not bear that burden, And man drew such a burden from the soul. Alas for the suffering we all endured, This is not life that we all died. We came submerged in the sea of bewilderment, From head to foot we came as the very essence of regret. Remaining sometimes in greed and sometimes in avarice again, Slain in the grief of coquetry and need. Go far from us, what do you want, O seeker? Otherwise, like us, you will fall into a pit. Seek less of this difficult path from Adam, If you need a way, seek it from the soul. The seeker came before the master and asked for admission, Before him, he spoke those secrets truthfully. The master told him: It is the soul of man, Total totality and joy within joy. Whoever falls into the soul of people, Both worlds fall lost within his heart. Whoever finds the way into the world of the soul, From the way of the soul, he finds the way toward the Beloved. Finding the way to the soul is finding the way to the Beloved, But first, the way is toward the soul. There is a hidden way for the Beloved toward the soul, But that way is stolen away from the world. The soul will find that way back toward Him, Until eternity, it sees His face in a hidden way. Since the world was jealousy from every side, Seeing His face in a hidden way was the true seeing of the face. There is a way toward every heart for the King, But there is no way for the heart that is lost. If the King was a stranger outside the chamber, Grieve not, since He was the housemate within.