He risks to run away Reflected Truth declares: 'God blushes not.

He risks to run away Reflected Truth declares: 'God blushes not.' 1 Heyday! 45 The mirror's fallen out from its protecting case! A mirror and a balance never truth debase! A mirror and a balance never facts conceal, Although some one be hurt by what they do reveal! The mirror and the balance tests are of my rule; Though for a thousand years thou serve it's strict formule. Hide not the truth from thought of deep respect for me. Show forth the whole, in full. Deficiency mayn't be.

What is’t that tells thee: 'Play not, joke not with the truth?' 2 The mirror, balance, God,-who smites falsehood with truth! 50 Sure, God hath raised me up for that one sole intent, That through me truth be preached unto its full extent. Were this not so, what value's in me, valued friend? Did I become instructor, only good to mend?

But shut thy mirror tight within its felten sack, If Sion's miracle's repeated in thy track." Said Zeyd: "Can man e’er grasp beneath his feeble arm The sun of truth, eternal luminary, warm? ’Twould burst his grasp asunder; all his wiles were vain, 55 Though madness he should add to reason in his brain!" Replied the Prophet: "On thy eye thy finger place; The world is straight deprived of all the sun's bright face!

A finger-tip suffices to blot out the moon; A symbol, this, of God's great sin-effacing boon. A point can cover up a whole world with its shade; The sun can be eclipsed by what's a mere monade. Shut close thy lips. Consider now the mighty sea. By God's command the ocean man's meek slave must be. 1 Ev’n as the fountains Selsabīl and Zenjabīl 2 60 Are given for use of angels, Michael, Isrāfīl 3 The rivers four of paradise are at our beck; Not by our merit, but by God's constraining check.

Where’er we will, they flow, obedient to our call; Like magical effect, magician's docile thrall. So also are our eyes, those founts of sentient beams, Subservient to our will, whichever way it streams. As we direct, they look; see what's like adder's sting; Or notice facts that to our minds their warnings bring. If so we will, they scrutinise objectiveness; 65 As we desire, they lend themselves to study dress.

By our direction, universals are their bound; If so we wish, they prisoners are in partials’ ground. Each of the senses five acts thus but as a spout, To bring unto the mind that which it cares about. Whichever way the heart directs them forth to stroll, They turn, and glean a harvest for its pleasure sole.