The body is like a string (tied) on the foot of the soul, drawing it (down) from Heaven to earth.
(But) the mouse-like body pulls it back with that string: how much bitterness does the soul taste from this pulling!
Were it not for the pulling of the scatter-brained mouse, the frog would have enjoyed himself in the water.
You will hear the rest of it from the light-giving (illumination) of the Sun when you rise from slumber on the Day (of Resurrection).
Deem that (intuitive) sagacity to be a Divine attribute, not a (vain) suspicion: the light of the heart has apprehended (by intuitive perception) from the Universal Tablet.
In spite of all blows the Elephant's feet would not move, either much or little, towards the Ka‘ba.
You would have said that its legs were paralysed or that its impetuous spirit was dead.
(But) whenever they turned its head towards Yemen, the fierce Elephant would begin to stride (forward) with the speed of a hundred horses.
(Since) the Elephant's perception was aware of the blow (coming) from the Unseen, how (much more) must the perception of the saint (endowed) with (the Divine) afflatus be (aware)!
This heart of mine never lies, for my heart is illumined by the light of the highest heaven”?
That (foreboding) was a decisive proof of (their) wickedness, but by (Divine) destiny he took no account (of it).
An intimation like that passed away from him (from his mind), because Destiny was at that moment (engaged) in (putting into operation the Divine) philosophy.