Yazma cildi 34 · Sayfa 265

ملقى، ومن سهام نوائب زمانه غير موقى؛ فلا يزال غرضا ماثِلا، وهدفا مائلا،؛ فهو الصحيح العليل، والكثيب المهيل. علته صحيحة، وألسن عباراتها بالحال عنها فصيحة.

فإن كان الحق قواه؛ فقد بَرئ من علته، وقواه؛ فإن الحق سمعه؛ فانجبر صدعه، وإنه بصره؛ فقد نفذ نظره، وإنه لسانه؛ فقد فهم بيانه، وإنه رجله؛ فقد استقام مَيْله، وإنه يده؛ فما يطلب من يعضده.

فمن عرف هذه النحل؛ فقد بَرئ من جميع العلل؛ فالله شفاؤه، وهو داؤه؛ فالمتكبر مقصوم، ومن كان الحق صفته فهو معصوم.

و من ذٰلك من تجمل استعمل من الباب 249

المتجمل مؤتمن؛ ولهٰذا يغتبن. يظهر الجمال، وإن كان كاسف البال. التجمل مروة، ولا يكون إلا من أهل الفتوة.

من ألحق البنوة بالنبوة؛ فقد ضاعف الله سموه. الغلوّ زيادة في الواجب في أصح المذاهب. الهيبة من آثار الجمال، على كل حال. الجمال محبوب،

cast down and unprotected against the arrows of his time’s calamities. He remains a standing mark and a swaying target. He is sound and ill, a loose heap of sand. His illness is sound, and the tongues of its expressions eloquently declare it through state.

If the Real is his faculties, he has been cured of his illness, and He strengthens him. If the Real is his hearing, his breach is mended; if He is his sight, his vision penetrates; if He is his tongue, his clarification is understood; if He is his foot, his inclination becomes straight; if He is his hand, he seeks no one to support him.

One who knows these gifts has been cured of all illnesses. God is his cure, and He is his disease. The arrogant one is broken, while one whose attribute is the Real is infallible.

Among this: whoever adorns himself is put to work, from Chapter 249.

The one who adorns himself is entrusted, and therefore is defrauded. He displays beauty even when his state is darkened. Adorning oneself is noble conduct and belongs only to the people of chivalry.

Whoever joins sonship to prophethood, God has doubled his loftiness. Excess adds to what is obligatory according to the soundest schools. Awe is among beauty’s effects in every state. Beauty is beloved,