This allegory illustrates the Sufi concept of the superiority of the human soul and the true servant of God over physical structures. In the story, Sheikh Nasrabadi addresses the Kaaba, pointing out that while God called the Kaaba His House (Beit) once, He addressed the human being as His Servant (Abdi) seventy times.

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در حرم بادی مگر میجسته بود 
شیخ نصرآباد خوش بنشسته بود
جملهٔ استار کعبه در هوا 
خوش همی جنبید از باد صبا
شیخ را خوش آمد آن از جای جست 
درگرفت آن دامن پرده بدست
گفت ای رعنا عروس سر فراز 
در میان مکه بنشسته بناز
جلوه داده چون عروسی خویش را 
کرده بیجان عالمی درویش را
صد جهان مردم چو حیرانی ز تو 
گشته هر زیر مغیلانی ز تو
عاشقی را هر نفس بندی کنی 
کشته چندین جلوه تا چندی کنی
این تفاخر وین تکبر تا بکی 
ای میان تو تهی پر تا بکی
گر ترا یکبار بیتی گفت یار 
گفت یا عبدی مرا هفتاد بار
هرکه در سر محبت بنده شد 
تا ابد هم محرم و هم زنده شد
سر او برتافت از پیشان کار 
دوستان را در ربود از نور و نار
تا ز دوزخ فرد و آزاد آمدند 
بی بهشت عدن دلشاد آمدند

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## English translation
Perhaps a wind was blowing in the sanctuary,
Sheikh Nasrabad was sitting peacefully.
All the curtains of the Kaaba in the air,
Were swaying pleasantly from the morning breeze.
The Sheikh was pleased by this and leapt from his place,
He grabbed the hem of that curtain in his hand.
He said, 'O beautiful, proud bride,
Sitting coquettishly in the middle of Mecca,
Displaying yourself like a bride,
Leaving a world of dervishes lifeless.
A hundred worlds of people are bewildered by you,
Wandering under every thorny acacia tree because of you.
Every moment you place a shackle on a lover,
You have slain so many with your display, how long will you do this?
How long this boasting and this arrogance?
O you whose inside is empty, how long will you be so full of yourself?
If the Friend called you a house once,
He called me "My servant" seventy times!
Whoever became a servant in the mystery of love,
Became an intimate confidant and alive for eternity.
He turned his head away from the forefront of affairs,
He snatched friends away from both light and fire.
So that they became separated and free from hell,
And arrived joyful without the Eden of Paradise.'

بخش ۸ - الحكایة و التمثیل / Section 8 - The Tale and the Parable

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