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SETTING FORTH
THE INNER MEANING OF THE NAMES OF ALI
| ALI is the first Muslim and the King of men, | 995 |
| In Love's eyes Ali is the treasure of the Faith. | |
| Devotion to his family inspires me with life | |
| So that I am as a shining pearl. | |
| Like the narcissus, I am entraptured with gazing: | |
| Like perfume, I am straying though his pleasure garden. | 970 |
| If holy water gushes from my earth, he is the source; | |
| If wine pours from my grapes, he is the cause. | |
| I am dust, but his sun hath made me as a mirror: | |
| Song can be seen in my breast. | |
| From Ali's face the Prophet drew many a fair omen, | 975 |
| By his majesty the true religion is glorified | |
| His commandments are the strength of Islam: | |
| All things pay allegiance to his House. | |
| The Apostle of God gave him the name Bu Turab; | |
| God in the Koran called him "the Hand of Allah." | 980 |
| Every one that is acquainted with Life's mysteries | |
| Knows what is the inner meaning of the names of Ali. | |
| The dark clay, whose name is the body— | |
| Our reason is ever be moaning its iniquity. | |
| On avvount of it our sky-reaching thought plods over the earth; | 985 |
| It makes our eyes blind and our cars deaf. | |
| It hath in its hand a two-edge sword of lust: | |
| Travelers' hearts are broken by this brigand. | |
| Ali, the Lion of God, subdued the body's clay | |
| And transmuted this dark earth to gold. | 990 |
| Murtaza, by whose sword the splendour of Truth was revealed, | |
| Is named Bu Turab from his conquest of the body.79 | |
| Man wins territory by prowess in battle, | |
| But his brightest jewel is masters of himself. | |
| Whosoever in the world become a Bu Turab | 995 |
| Turns back the sun from the west;80 | |
| Whosoever saddles tightly the seed of the body | |
| Sits like the bezel on the seal of sovereignty: | |
| Here the might of Khaibar is under his feet,81 | |
| And hereafter his hand will distribute the water of Kauthar.82 | 1000 |
| Through self-knowledge, he acts as God's Hand, | |
| And in virtue of being God's Hand he reigns over all. | |
| His person is the gate of the city of the sciences.83 | |
| Arabia, China, and Greece are subject to him. | |
| If thou wouldst drink clear wine from thine own grapes. | 1005 |
| Thou must needs wield authority over thine own earth. | |
| To become earth is the creed of a moth: | |
| Be a conqueror of earth; that alone is worthy of a man. | |
| Thou art soft as a rose. Become hard as a stone, | |
| That thou mayst be the foundation of the wall of the garden! | 1010 |
| Build thy clay into a Man, | |
| Build thy Man into a World | |
| Unless from thine own earth thou build - thine own wall or door. | |
| Someone else will make bricks of thine earth. | |
| O thou who complaints of the cruelty of Heaven, | 1015 |
| Thou whose glass cries out against the injustice of the stone, | |
| How long this wailing and crying and lamentation ? | |
| How long this perpetual beating of thy breast ? | |
| The pith of Life is contained in action, | |
| The delight in creation is the law of Life. | 1020 |
| Arise and create a new world! | |
| Wrap thyself in flames, be an Abraham!84 | |
| To comply with this world which does not favour thy purposes | |
| Is to fling away thy buckler on the field of battle. | |
| The man of strong character who is master of himself | 1025 |
| Will find Fortune complaisant. | |
| If the world does not comply with his humour, | |
| He will try the hazard of war with Heaven: | |
| He will dig up the foundations of the universe | |
| And cast its atoms into a new mould. | 1030 |
| He will subvert the course of Time | |
| And wreck the azure firmament. | |
| By his own strength he will produce | |
| A new world which will do his pleasure. | |
| If one cannot live in the world as be seems a man, | 1035 |
| Then it is better to die like the brave. | |
| He that hath a sound heart | |
| Will prove his strength by great enterprises. | |
| ' Tis sweet to use love in hard tasks | |
| And, like Abraham, to gather roses from flames 85 | 1040 |
| The potentialities of men of action | |
| Are displayed in willing acceptance of what is difficult. | |
| Mean spirits have no weapon but resentment, | |
| Life has only one law. | |
| Life is power made manifest, | 1045 |
| And its mainspring is the desire for victory. | |
| Mercy out of season is a chilling of Life's blood, | |
| A break in the rhythm of Life's music. | |
| Whoever is sunk in the depths of ignomity | |
| Calls his weakness contentment. | 1050 |
| Weakness is the plunderer of Life, | |
| Its womb is teeming with fears and lies. | |
| Its soul is empty of virtues, | |
| Vices fatten on its milk. | |
| O man of sound judgment, beware! | 1055 |
| This spoiler is lurking in ambush | |
| Be not its dupe, if thou art wise: | |
| Chameleon-like, it changes colour every moment. | |
| Even by keen observers its form is not discerned | |
| Veils are thrown over its face. | 1060 |
| Now it is muffled in pity and gentleness, | |
| Now it wears the cloak of humanity. | |
| Some times it is disguised as compulsion, | |
| Sometimes as excusability. | |
| It appears in the shape of self-indulgence | 1065 |
| And robs the strong man's heart of courage. | |
| Strength is the twin of Truth; | |
| If thou knowest thyself, strength is the Truth-revealing glass. | |
| Life is the seed, and power the crop: | |
| Power explains the mystery of truth and falsehood. | 1070 |
| A claimant, if he be possessed of power, | |
| Needs no argument for his claim. | |
| Falsehood derives from power the authority of truth, | |
| And by falsifying truth deems itself true. | |
| Its creative word transforms poison into nectar. | 1075 |
| It says to good, "Thou art bad," and Good becomes Evil. | |
| O thou that art heedless of the trust committed to thee, | |
| Esteem thyself superior to both worlds86! | |
| Gain knowledge of Life's mysteries! | |
| Be a tyrant! Ignore all except God ! | 1080 |
| O man of understanding, open thine eyes, ears, and lips !87 | |
| If then thou seest not the Way of Truth, laugh at me! |
