A Man and a Woman Arguing

Both Persian and Roman, Turk and Arab, are amazed by his generosity and kindness.  
One night, an Arab woman spoke to her husband, and their conversation went beyond limits.  
She said, "We endure all this poverty and cruelty, while the whole world is happy, we are unhappy."  
"We have no bread, our food is pain and envy, our jug is empty, and our tears are our drink."  
"Our clothes are the sun's heat by day, and at night, our blanket is the moonlight."  
"We mistake the full moon for a loaf of bread, raising our hands to the sky."  
"Our poverty shames the poor, as we worry day and night about our sustenance."  
"Relatives and strangers have fled from us, like the people from the Samaritan."  
"If I ask someone for a handful of grain, they tell me to be silent, death and disgrace."  
"For Arabs, pride is in battle and giving, but among Arabs, you are like a mistake in writing."  
"What battle? We have killed ourselves without battle, we have lost our heads to the sword of poverty."  
"What giving? We are beggars, we cut the veins of flies in the air."  
"If a guest arrives, if I am myself, at night I plan to take his cloak."  
The disciples, in need, are deceived by false claimants, considering them as sheikhs and leaders, not distinguishing the false from the true, and the bound from the free.  
For this reason, the wise have said, "One should be a guest of the benevolent."  
"You are a disciple and guest of someone who takes your harvest from the worthless."  
"There is no one who can overpower you, nor does he give you light, but makes you dark."  
"When he has no light in his heart, how can others find light from him?"  
"Like a blind man who makes eye medicine, what does he put in eyes but blindness?"  
"This is our state in poverty and hardship, do not be deceived by our hospitality."  
"If you haven't seen a ten-year famine in images, open your eyes and look at us."  
"Our appearance is like the claimant's interior, darkness in his heart, brilliance in his tongue."  
"He has no scent of God, nor any effect, his claim is greater than Seth and Adam."  
"The devil has not shown him his own image, yet he says, 'I am one of the saints and more.'"  
"He has stolen many words from the poor, so it seems he is someone himself."  
"He criticizes Bayazid's words, ashamed of his own inner Yazid."  
"Without bread and heavenly table, God has not thrown him a single bone."  
"He has proclaimed, 'I have set the table, I am the deputy of God, the son of the caliph.'"  
"Come, simple-hearted ones, eat from my table of generosity, never full."  
"For years, people have circled that door with the promise of tomorrow, never reaching tomorrow."  
"It takes time for a person's essence to be revealed, whether it is abundant or lacking."  
"Under the wall of the body, is there a treasure or a house of snakes and scorpions?"  
"When it becomes clear that there is nothing, what use is the knowledge after the seeker's life has passed?"  
In explaining that it is rare for a disciple to sincerely believe in a false claimant, thinking he is someone, and with this belief, reach a position that his sheikh has not seen in a dream, and water and fire do not harm him, but harm his sheikh, though it is extremely rare.  
"But rarely, a seeker comes whose sincerity makes that lie beneficial to him."  
"He reaches a place with his good intention, even if he thought it was life, and it was a body."  
"Like finding the qibla in the dark of night, it is not the qibla, yet his prayer is accepted."  
"The claimant has a famine of soul in his head, but we have a famine of bread on the surface."  
"Why should we hide like the claimant? For the sake of false honor, we should not sacrifice our soul."  
The Arab man advised his wife to be patient and explained the virtue of patience and poverty to her.  
The husband said to her, "How long will you seek income and harvest? What remains of life has mostly passed."  
"A wise person does not look at abundance or lack, for both pass like a flood."  
"Whether clear or muddy, since it does not last a moment, do not speak of it."  
"In this world, thousands of creatures live happily without ups and downs."  
"The dove praises God on the tree, without preparing for the night."  
"The nightingale praises God, relying on you for sustenance, O Responder."  
"The falcon has given hope to the king's hand, cutting off hope from all carrion."  
"From the mosquito to the elephant, all are God's dependents, and God is the best provider."  
"All these sorrows in hearts are from our vapor, dust, and wind."  
"These sorrows are like our scythe, uprooting us, this is our obsession."  
"Know that every pain is a part of dying, if there is a remedy, drive away the part of death."  
"Since you cannot escape a part of death, know that the whole will pour over your head."  
"If a part of death becomes sweet to you, know that God makes the whole sweet."  
"You were young and more content, seeking gold, you yourself were gold at first."  
"You were a vine full of fruit, when you became stale, at the time of ripening, you became corrupt."  
"Your fruit should become sweeter, like a rope twisting, not going backward."  
"We are a pair, we should be alike, so that things are done with wisdom."  
"A pair should be like each other, look at a pair of shoes and boots."  
"If one shoe of the pair is tight on the foot, neither pair will work for you."  
"A pair in one small and the other large, have you seen a wolf paired with a lion?"  
"A pair of saddlebags does not fit a camel, one empty and the other full of goods."  
"I go towards contentment with a strong heart, why do you go towards disgrace?"  
"The content man, with sincerity and passion, spoke to his wife until morning."  
The wife advised her husband not to speak beyond his step and position, saying, "Why do you say what you do not do?" These words, though true, are not your place of trust, and speaking beyond your position and dealings is harmful and greatly detested by God.  
The wife shouted at him, "O pretentious one, I will no longer be deceived by your spells."  
"Do not speak nonsense of claims and invitations, do not speak of pride and arrogance."  
"How many grand words and affairs, look at your own state and be ashamed."  
"Pride is ugly, and uglier in beggars, a cold day, snow, and then wet clothes."  
"How much boasting and bluster, your house is like a spider's web."  
"When did you ignite your soul with contentment? You learned the name of contentment from contentment."  
"The Prophet said, 'What is contentment but a treasure?' You do not know the treasure from the pain."  
"This contentment is nothing but a flowing treasure, do not boast, O flowing pain and sorrow."  
"Do not call me a pair, embrace less, I am a pair of fairness, not a pair of deceit."  
"When you step with the lord and the beg, you cut the vein of a locust in the air."  
"You quarrel with dogs over this bone, like an empty reed, you wail."  
"Do not look at me with contempt, weak and weak, lest I say what is in your veins."  
"You have seen your intellect as greater than mine, how have you seen me, the less intelligent?"  
"Like a careless wolf among us, O shame of your intellect, you are better without it."  
"When your intellect is the essence of people, that is not intellect, it is a snake and a scorpion."  
"May God be the enemy of your oppression and deceit, may your virtue and intellect be short of us."  
"You are both a snake and a charmer, how strange, a snake catcher and a snake, O shame of the Arabs."  
"If the crow knew its own ugliness, it would melt like snow from pain and sorrow."  
"When the charmer calls the enemy, he charms the snake, and the snake charms him."  
"If his trap were not the snake's charm, how would the snake's charm become prey?"  
"The charmer, out of greed for work, does not realize the snake's charm at that time."  
"The snake says, 'O charmer, beware, you saw that, now see my charm.'"  
"You deceive me with the name of God, to disgrace my turmoil and evil."  
"The name of God bound me, not your opinion, you made the name of God a trap, woe to you."  
"The name of God will take my right from you, I surrendered my life and body to the name of God."  
"Either my bite will take your life's vein, or it will imprison you like me."  
The wife, with such harsh words, read scrolls to her young husband.  
The man advised his wife not to look down on the poor and to see the work of God with the thought of perfection, not to mock poverty and the poor with the imagination and thought of one's own poverty.  
He said, "O woman, are you a woman or the father of sorrow? Poverty is my pride, do not strike me on the head."  
"Wealth and gold are like a hat for the head, he is bald who makes a hat his refuge."  
"He who has curly and beautiful hair, when his hat is gone, he looks better."  
"A man of truth is like sight, naked is better than covered vision."  
"When the slave seller presents, he removes the garment that hides the slave's faults."  
"If there is a fault, he does not make it naked, but with the garment, he deceives him."  
"He says, 'He is ashamed of good and bad, he fears you from making him naked.'"  
"The master is immersed in faults up to his ears, the master has wealth, and his wealth covers his faults."  
"Because of greed, the seeker does not see his faults, greed has united hearts."  
"Because the poor are beyond wealth and possessions, they have a deep sustenance from the Glorious."  
"God Almighty is just, and the just do not oppress the heartless."  
"To one, they give blessings and goods, and to another, they place on fire."  
"Burn his fire, who has this thought about the Creator of both worlds."  
"Poverty is my pride, not a boast or metaphor, there are thousands of hidden honors and graces."  
"You called me names out of anger, you called me a friend and a snake catcher."  
"If I catch, I will uproot the snake's tooth, so that there is no harm from its bite."  
"Because that tooth is the enemy of its life, I make the enemy a friend with this knowledge."  
"I never read spells out of greed, I have turned this greed upside down."  
"By God, my greed is not from creation, from contentment, there is a world in my heart."  
"On the top of the pear tree, you see like that, come down so that suspicion does not remain."  
"When you turn and become dizzy, you see the house spinning, and that is you."  
In explaining that everyone's movement is from where they are, everyone sees from their own existence, the blue pan of the sun appears blue and red, when the pan comes out of colors, it becomes white, it is more truthful than all other pans and is the leader.  
Abu Jahl saw Ahmad and said, "What an ugly figure from the Bani Hashim, how strange."  
Ahmad said to him, "You spoke the truth, though it increases the work."  
His friend, the truthful one, said, "O sun, neither from the east nor from the west, shine beautifully."  
Ahmad said, "You spoke the truth, O dear one, you have escaped from the worthless world."  
The present ones said, "O leader of the world, why did you say the truth to two opposites?"  
He said, "I am a mirror polished by hand, the Turk and the Hindu see in me what they are."  
"O woman, if you see me as greedy, rise above this feminine suspicion."  
"This greed remains, and it was mercy, where is greed when that blessing was?"  
"Test poverty for a day or two, so that in poverty you see wealth in two."