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أترى يحصد شخص زرع من

بذر الحب ونقى وحرث

لا وحق الحق ما يملكه

أخبر الروح به حين نفث

أودع الأرواح روحا واحدا

بين زوجين نكاحا ثم بث

كتم السر الذي فيه له

غيرة منه زمانا ثم نث

لم يسو الله في أحكامه

حكمة ما بين شيخ وحدث

ثم إن جاء بحكم جامع

لهما كان لأمر قد حدث

فكأن بالطفل قد حل به

هرم والشيخ قد حل الجدث

كان حيا ثم ميتا ثم من

بعد موت عاد حيا فبعث

(أصناف رجال الله)

اعلم، وفقك الله،

Do you suppose someone harvests the crop of one

Who sowed the grain, weeded, and plowed?

No, by the Real’s right, he does not own it.

The spirit reported this when it breathed.

He placed one spirit within spirits,

In marriage between two mates, then spread them.

For a time he concealed the secret within it

Out of jealousy for it, then divulged.

God did not make equal in His rulings,

In wisdom, an old man and a youth.

If He brings a ruling common

To both, it is for an affair that has occurred.

It is as though old age has alighted upon the child,

And the old man has entered the grave.

He was alive, then dead; then

After death he became alive again and was raised.

(The Classes of God’s Men)

Know—may God grant you success—