In the Name of God, the All-Merciful, the Compassionate.
Chapter 560: On a Counsel of Wisdom Benefiting the Aspirant Wayfarer, the One Who Has Arrived, and Whoever Comes upon It, If God Most High Wills.
God counseled, and His Messengers counseled; therefore
following their example is among the best of works.
Without counsel, creation would be bewildered;
through counsel, dominion circulated among dynasties.
Act upon it and do not neglect its way:
counsel is God’s ruling in beginninglessness.
I reminded a people of what God counseled;
it does not belong to me to introduce an affair into counsel.
There was nothing beyond what they said or prescribed
of journeying through them upon the most upright paths.
Ahmad’s guidance is the very essence of all religion;
the Chosen One’s creed is among the most luminous creeds.
It did not efface the eye, but gave him its strength,
so that he might straighten the crookedness within him.
Notes
Translator’s note: ʿAyn in the final couplet can mean an eye or an entity; the references of “him” and “its” are compressed in the source.
