The Light of Truth — Page 211
A QAŞĪDAH ON THE CHRISTIANIZED AND THEIR VICE My Lord, show me the day when their cross shall be broken! My Lord, grant me full power over their walls! My words are a sword when I speak, A deadly spear and not the like of their speech. I was commissioned by the Protector, After smoke began to rise from the mischief of their [clerics'] fire. I did not say this; rather, the Protector said this; I have not come to them; rather, the time for their abasement has come. At times I fight them with arrows; At times I strike by my sword to annihilate them. With a sword of pure steel I cut them down; And my staff obliterated the powers of their snakes. My spirit has been heavily perfumed with the spirit of the Prophets; A deluge of their bounties rained down upon me. 211