Muhammad asked God,
“Why are You disdainful of us? Tell us, please.
What’s all this about people?
What was the purpose of creating them?”
God said, “O Soul of the universe, I was a hidden treasure.
I wanted this gift of treasure
and the favor to become apparent.
“I created a mirror.
The back is the Earth, the front is the sky.
The back will be even better
if it escapes from hypocrisy and ostentation.”
If the grape wants to be wine, it has to stay in the jar and ferment.
If the back wants to come to the front, It has to be crushed and mended.
How can muddy water be a desirable mirror?
When it gets rid of the mud, it becomes clear.
My Sultan says to the soul who has flown away from the body,
“Come. Since you have left the bad ones, you’re now My friend.”
It’s well known that when an alchemist treats copper, it becomes gold.
That secret Chemist turns copper into the best, true gold.
This sun is rich because of God. It doesn’t need a crown or robe.
It has become a hat for hundreds of bald ones and clothes for all the naked ones.
Jesus rode a donkey because of His humility.
If that weren’t the case, how could the morning breeze ride a donkey?
You should yell, “O Soul, make your head food on the search.
O mind, be eternal for this eternity!”
Remember God so much that you forget yourself.
While you’re praying, you’ll bend like the dal in the words of praying.
As you know, the bazaar of desires Is full of deceit and cheating.
O good man, put your mind into your head.
Don’t get involved with those useless things.
If you want to reach Soul, that smiling Kingdom,
smile like a rose when in favor… and in disfavor as well.
Divan-i Kebir, Volume 1, Terci-Bend 112, verses 1418-1430, pages 271-272.