Precious Pearls — Page 103
105 Are your eyes blind even after seeing everything? At least Fear that day, O friends, that is the Day of Reckoning. You possess insight; then ponder as to what is this secret: How can that Holy One be a friend of a liar? (345) Why is this grace on me; there must be some reason for it; All these affairs of the Lord are not without purpose. He Himself bestowed upon me the spring of pure Unity So that He may plant anew a garden in the orchard of Faith. The mantle on my shoulders is the one given by that Dearest; If you have the might, O deniers, then remove this mantle. Distrust is not much better than lack of modesty In these days when the signs of calamity are evident. The tempest of God’s wrath is now in full force Only he shall be saved who enters the Ark of Noah. (350) Goodness lies in coming unto me with sincerity; There are beasts all around I am the fort of peace. I am the support for the wall of Faith and the refuge of Islam; Because of this wall, the hand of enemy cannot reach. Why has mistrust spread so much among the ignorant? Is it because of bad times or are they stricken by a curse? We had a hope in heart that they might understand the matter; Well done, Satan! How thou made them thy prey. O ye, that mistrust is constantly your way of dealing; Where have your other faculties gone, O shrewd one? (355) If I am a liar, I shall get the penalty for liars; but if I am true, Then what excuse you’ll have on the Day of Reckoning? Pray look at such prejudice that while I dote on Islam, Even then they call me a disbeliever time and again. I am that water that came from the heavens on time; I am that light of God by which the day became evident. Alas, that God-fearing they claimed where is it gone? Whereto has the driver of their base self turned the reins? The things that that Creator showed for my sake, Can a pretender achieve them a crony of the Satan? (360) I made my garment wet through constant weeping with pain; But you maintained that constant dryness in a sorry state. Alas, what happened! How their intellects have gone to waste! The day has become dark and obscure in front of their eyes. Or is this a retribution for some concealed sin That has made the intellects useless and like a dead thing? They carry the sins of the ordinary people on their necks; With their sermons the hearts of the world became clouded. They fell asleep in such a way that they have not woken yet; They forgot it such that oblivion has become their curse. (365)