(41) Saying, 'Ho, take refuge in the light! Otherwise you will fall into my jaws, And will find no escape from my clutches!' This staff even now became a serpent, So that you need not ask, 'Where is God's hell?' God makes a hell wheresover He wills; He produces pains and aches in your teeth, So that you say, "Tis a hell and serpent's bite.' Or again He makes your spittle as honey, So that you say, ''Tis heaven and wine of Paradise.'

(132) For when thy Light is extinguished, then thou standest in the Darkness, and in the Darkness the Wrath of God is hidden, and if thou awakenest it, then it burns in thee.

(61) And to house and wall, saying, "Afford no shade! Ward not off the pouring rain and the sun's heat;" Till those men hasted to listen to the prophet Shu'aib, Saying, 'O king, have pity; most of us are dead!' When that Omnipotent hand made the staff a serpent, If you have reason, that portent should suffice. You have sight indeed, but fail to mark carefully; The heavenly treasure lies "nearer to us than our neck-vein". The Faqir was in this state when a divine voice came, And God thus solved his difficulties,

(41) With tears starting from his eyes through deadly fear; Yea, tens of founts of tears through terrible dread; With eyes wide opened in deadly apprehension Then will the evildoer be sent to the fiery prison, When his guardian angels behind and before, Who before were unseen, shall appear like patrols, They will hurry him off, pricking him with their spears, And saying, "O dog, begone to thy kennel!" Then the prisoner will cry, "O Lord, I am a hundred,

(91) then will not that kindled Fire at the Last Judgment Day hurt thee; nor will it cleave or stick in thy Spirits which retain their Sap; but after this anxious Affliction and Trouble, thou wilt be in the Resurrection a triumphing Angel of God. Question.

(76) When this is done, then thou art a hellish Fire-Brand, and a Billet or Faggot to lay upon the hellish Fire, and then there is no Remedy for thee eternally.

(39) If thou holdest on in thy Earnestness; and wilt not give over, then will this Fire come suddenly upon thee, like Lightening, and shine into thee, and then thou wilt well experience that which I have here wrote, and wilt easily believe that which is in my Book.

(128) But when God shall bring forth the hidden Things, at the End of this Time, then you will discern in what God’s Love or Wrath has been. Therefore have a Care, and take Heed, and turn thy Eyes from Evil, or else thou undoest thyself, and so bringest thyself into Perdition. [Not.]

(21) here indeed is many a hard Blow or Crushing; for the kindled Wrath-fire of God falls many Times so heavy upon them, that they know not where to bestow themselves; heavy Mountains lie upon them, the Love-cross presses sore, and is heavy.

(26) But that the Fierceness does terribly burn now at present, it needs no Proof here, for it is known as clear as the Day by woeful Experience. Behold there rises up yet a little Fire, in the Opposition against the Wrath, out of a singular special Love-restraint of God: When this grows weak also, then is the End of this Time.

(74) Thou askest: How can a Man quench this kindled Fire? Answer.

(129) But not in such a Form as it now stands, but all will be separated in the kindled Wrath-Fire; and the dark, hot, cold, rugged, hard, bitter, stinking Relicks, Dregs, or Dross, will be left thee for an eternal Inn and Lodging. And

(91) The faithful will say on the last day, "O King! Was not Hell on the route all of us traveled? Did not faithful as well as infidels pass through it? Yet on our way we perceived not the smoke of the fire; Nay, it seemed Paradise and the mansion of the blessed." Then the King will answer, "That green garden, As it appeared to you on your passage through it, Was indeed Hell and the place of dread torment; Since you have labored to make hellish lusts, And the 'fire of pride that courts destruction,

(51) Why hast Thou kindled the fire of violence and wrong? Why burnt up mosques and them who worship therein? Paradise is attached to requirements unpleasant to us, 'They that are burnt with fire are near to Kausar.' Whoso is in prison and acquainted with troubles, Whoso is in a palace and enjoying wealth, Whoso is seen enjoying uncounted gold and silver, He, whose soul is exempt from natural conditions, And who possesses the power of overriding causes, Can see without causes, like eyes that pierce night;

(89) Flint and steel are able to generate fire, From them springs fire which can destroy its parents." As he continued importuning him, Gabriel displayed His awful form, whereat the mountains were rent asunder. When Gabriel beheld him swooning with fear, Address to Husamu-'d-Din. O light of God, Husamu-'d-Din, admit This ass's head into that melon-garden! For when this ass is killed in the slaughter-house

(3) And there will he let thee see the wonderful kindness of God, and if thou hear him, he careth for nought better. For soon after he will let thee see thine old wretched living, and peradventure in seeing and thinking thereof he will bring to thy mind some place that thou hast dwelt in before this time. So that at the last, or ever thou wit, thou shalt be scattered thou wottest not where. The cause of this scattering is, that thou heardest him first wilfully, then answeredest him, receivedest him, and lettest him alone.

(24) Or what thinkest thou, if thy Twig be thus very dry and withered, and that thou must eternally swelter in the Anger of God, where instantly thy human Image will be taken away, and thou wilt be in the a Shape of the most abominable Beasts, Worms, and Serpents, all according to thy Deeds and Practice here, where then all thy Deeds will stand in the Figure in the Tincture eternally before thy Eyes, and will gnaw thee sufficiently, so that thou wilt continually think, if thou hadst not done this or that, thou shouldst have attained the Grace of God? Thy Mocking stands before thy Eyes, and thou art ashamed to let the least good Thought into thy Soul; for Good is as an Angel before thee, and thou darest not (for great Shame) so much as to touch it with thy Mind, much less look upon it. But thou must eternally devour into thyself thy great Scorning, with all thy Vices and Sins, and thou must eternally despair; and though thou thinkest to go forth after Abstinence, yet the Light strikes thee down again, and so thou goest but forth aloft (in thy devouring fretting Worm, in thyself) without the Thrones of God; and it is with thee, as with one who stands upon a high stony Cliff of a Rock, and would cast himself into a bottomless Gulf; and the further he sees, the deeper he falls. Thus thy own Sins, Scornings, Deridings, Cursings in Contempt of God, are thy Hell-fire, which gnaws thee eternally; this I speak in the Word of Life.

(42) Noah replied, "Make not light of it, for 'tis the flood of destruction, The wind of wrath and the storm blow out torches; Except the torch of God, all are extinguished." He answered "Nay! I am going to that high mountain, For that will save me from all harm." Noah cried, "Beware, do not so, mountains are now as grass; Except the Friend none can save thee." He answered, "Why should I listen to thy advice? Thy speech is by no means pleasing to me, I am free from thee in this world and the next."

(51) And wards off the darts of hunger like a cuirass, When God instils wrath into this mouthful of bread, This same garment which protects you from the cold, God may give it the quality of intense cold, So that this warm vest may become to your body Cold as ice and biting as frost; So that you will cast off these furs and silks, You have only one eye, not two (for these two possibilities). You have forgotten the story of the "shadowing cloud." God's command came to city and village,

(3) It is said to thee, that the Wood [or Fuel] of thy Soul shall burn in the last Fire, and that thy Soul shall remain to be Ashes in the Fire, and thy Body shall appear like black Soot. Why wilt thou then stand in a Wilderness, yea in a Rock where there is no Water? How then will thy Tree grow again? O! Or Saints and holy People. what great Misery it is that we are ignorant in what P Soil we grow, and what Kind of Essences we draw to us, seeing our Fruit shall appear and be tasted, and that which is pleasant shall stand upon God's Table; and the other shall be cast to the Devil's Swine. Therefore let it move you; to look that you grow in the Ground or Soil of Christ, and bring forth Fruit that may be set upon God's Table, which Fruit never perishes, but continually springs, and the more it is eaten of, the pleasanter it is. How wilt thou rejoice in the Lord!