Basatin al-uns 3.4

3.4

And a man of discernment whose vanguard in his present day informs him of what will happen on his morrow.
If it appeared to the people, you would not know whether it is the rays of the sun or an Indian blade.
If aid should reach the Universal Intellect from his judgment, / the reality of the soul would remain hidden from no one.
Whoever, through extreme rebelliousness, did not draw his foot into the skirt of obedience to him like a tent, even though, like a pavilion,
he strove with a hundred hands to preserve his own mischievous head, in the end the turning of the celestial sphere cast the rope of humiliation like a peg around his neck,
severed his nape, and drove him into the ground; and whoever, like a pen, did not gird the loins of servitude around his soul in the path of abundant devotion to him,
even though he made an ironclad fortress his refuge and haven like wool inside an inkwell,
in the end the blackness of the army of tribulations poured the black water of annihilation over the crown of his being, and like a pen
separated joint from joint. Without the aid of his heart-delighting grace and soul-melting wrath, the celestial bodies have not manifested the signs of good and evil in