Basatin al-uns 77.90

77.90

he might fashion a bolster of silk and brocade. For the green robe of exaltation is put on by one who, like
the luminary of the heavens, has raised a hundred thousand lamps and torches of light in the courtyard of his pure breast, and who, like
the surface of a sword blade, is adorned and ornamented from head to foot with the bright jewels of detachment; who, like the Encircling Ocean,
embraces this heap of dust like a Sufi and moistens it, and who, after the manner of a water-lily, casts his prayer-rug upon the face of the water through swimming the seas of gnosis;
and if the tyrants of realms of injustice trample his head and body like grass beneath cruelty
and enmity, out of utmost endurance he does not raise his head or turn aside from the path of patience; and if, like a violet,
under the assault of the blast of endless oppression and cruelty they double over his head and stature, like the lily he restrains his tongue from the liberty
of reciting sorrowful stories and complaint-filled narratives, keeping it mute. When he saw me like a fish out of water, in agony and
distress, prompted by perfect compassion he inquired into the circumstances of my condition. I recounted the manner of my departure,
the event of the ship sinking, and my endurance of the boundless afflictions of the sea, word by word, before him.