(909) - Oh, many are the fools that lay down their heads before wood and graven stone.

(910) - The worshipper and the object of worship are ignorant of the spirit; he has felt a movement and a slight effect of the spirit.

(911) - He has felt, at the moment when he became rapt and bewildered, that the stone spoke and made signs.

(912) - When the wretched man bestowed his devotion in the wrong place and deemed the lion of stone to be a lion,

(913) - The real Lion, from kindness, showed munificence and at once threw a bone to the dog,

(914) - And said, “Although the dog is not in order, yet as regards me the bone is a bounty of which all partake.”

After halima's weaned she lamentation of H. Mustafa.

(915) - I will tell you the story of Halima’s mystic experience, that her tale may clear away your trouble.

(916) - When she parted Mustafa from milk, she took him up on the palm of her hand as sweet basil and roses,

(917) - Causing him to avoid every good or evil, that she might commit that emperor to (the care of) his grandsire.

(918) - Since she was bringing the trust in fear, she went to the Ka‘ba and came into the Hatím.

(919) - From the air she heard a cry -“O Hatím, an exceedingly mighty Sun has shone upon you.

(921) - O Hatím, to-day there will march into you with pomp a glorious King, whose harbinger is Fortune.

(922) - O Hatím, to-day without doubt you will become anew the abode of exalted spirits.

(924) - Halima was bewildered by that voice: neither in front nor behind was any one.

(925) - The six directions were empty of form, and this cry was continuous - may the soul be a ransom for that cry !

(926) - She laid Mustafa (child) on the earth that she might search after the sweet sound.

(927) - Then she cast her eye to and fro, saying, “Where is that king that tells of mysteries ?

(928) - For such a loud sound is arriving from left and right. O Lord, where is he that causes it to arrive ?”

(929) - When she did not see, she became distraught and despairing: her body began to tremble like the willow-bough.

(930) - She came back towards that righteous child: she did not see Mustafa in his place.

(931) - Bewilderment on bewilderment fell upon her heart: from grief her abode became very dark.

(932) - She ran to the dwellings and raised an outcry, saying, “Who has carried off my single pearl?”

(933) - The Meccans said, “We have no knowledge: we knew not that a child was there.”

(934) - She shed so many tears and made much lamentation that those others began to weep because of her.

(935) - Beating her breast, she wept so well that the stars were made to weep by her weeping.

How ‘Abdu-’l-Muttalib, the grandfather of Mustafa, got news of Halima’s having lost (child) Mohammed and searched for him round the city and made lamentation at the door of the Ka‘ba and besought God and found him.

(983) - When the grandfather of Mustafa got the news of Halima and her outcry in public.

(984) - And of such loud screams and shrieks that the echo of them was reaching a mile,

(985) - Abdu l-Muttalib at once knew what the matter was: he beat his hands on his breast and wept.

(986) - In his grief he came ardently to the door of the Ka‘ba, saying, “O You that knows the secret of night and the mystery of day,

(995) - Him I bring to plead with You: tell me his plight, O You who knows (every) plight!”

(996) - From within the Ka‘ba came at once a cry, “Even now he will show his face unto you.

(997) - He is blessed by Us with two hundred felicities; he is guarded by Us with two hundred troops of angels.

(1031) - We make a world living through him; We make Heaven a slave in his service.”

(1032) - Abdu ’l-Muttalib said, “Where is he now ? O You that knows the secret, point out the right way !”

How Abdu l-Muttalib asked for a clue to the place where Mohammed was saying, “Where shall I find him ?” and how he was answered from within the Ka‘ba and obtained the clue.

(1033) - A voice reached him from within the Ka‘ba. It said, “O seeker, that righteous child,

(1034) - Is in such and such a wadi beneath yonder tree.” Then the good-fortuned old man at once set out.

How a dervish saw in dream a company of Shaykhs and begged for a daily portion of lawful food without being occupied with earning and being incapacitated from devotional service; and how they directed him, and how the sour and bitter mountain-fruit became sweet to him through the bounty of those Shaykhs.

(678) - A certain dervish said in the night-talk, “I saw in dream those connected with Khizr.

(679) - I said to them, ‘Where shall I eat a daily portion of lawful food that is not harmful ?’

(680) - They took me along towards the mountainous country: they were shaking down the fruit from the forest,

(681) - Saying, ‘God has made the fruit sweet in your mouth because of our benedictions.

(682) - Come, eat clean and lawful, and free of reckoning, without trouble and change of place and up and down.’

(683) - Then from that daily provision there appeared in me a speech: savour of my words was transporting minds.

(684) - I said, ‘this is a temptation: O Lord of the world, bestow a gift hidden from all creatures !’

(685) - Speech departed from me; I gained a joyous heart: I was bursting with rapture, like the pomegranate;

(686) - I said, ‘If there be nothing in Paradise but this delight which I have within my nature,

(687) - No other blessing will be desired: I will not be diverted from this by the houris and sugar-cane.’

(688) - Of my earnings one or two small pieces had remained with me, sewn in the sleeve of my jacket (jubba).

How he formed an intention, saying, ‘I will give this money to that carrier of firewood, since I have obtained daily provision through the miraculous gifts of the Shaykhs’; and how the carrier of firewood was offended by his secret thought and intention.

(689) - A poor man was carrying firewood: he approached, weary and exhausted, from the forest.

(690) - So I said, ‘I am independent of daily bread: henceforth I have no anxiety for the daily portion.

(691) - The loathed fruit has become sweet to me: a special provision for my body has come to hand.

(692) - Since I have been freed from the gullet, here are some small pieces of money: I will give him these.

(693) - I will give this money to this toil-worn man, that for two or three brief days he may be made happy by food.’

(694) - He knew my thoughts, because his hearing had illumination from the candle of Hu.

(695) - To him the secret of every thought was as a lamp within a glass.

(696) - No mental conception was hidden from him: he was ruler over the contents of hearts.

(697) - Therefore that wondrous man was muttering to himself under his breath in answer to my thought,

(698) - 'You think so concerning the kings: how should you meet the daily provision unless they provide you ?’

(699) - I did not understand his words, but his rebuke smote my heart mightily.

(700) - He approached me with awful manner, like a lion, and laid down his bundle of firewood.

(701) - The influence of the ecstatic state in which he laid down the firewood, a trembling fell upon all my seven limbs.

(702) - He said, ‘O Lord, if You have elect ones whose prayers are blessed and whose feet are auspicious,

(703) - I entreat that Your grace may become an alchemist and that this bundle of firewood may be turned into gold at this moment.’

(704) - Immediately I saw that his firewood was turned into gold, gleaming brightly on the ground, like fire.

(705) - Thereat I became beside myself for a long while. When I came to myself out of bewilderment,

(706) - He said afterwards, ‘O God, if those great ones are very jealous and are fleeing from celebrity,

(707) - At once, without delay, make this a bundle of firewood again, just as it was.’

(708) - Immediately those branches of gold turned into firewood: the intellect and the sight were intoxicated at his work.

(709) - After that, he took up the firewood and went from me in hot haste towards the town.

Ya Ali Madad