Chickpea to Cook

Look at the chickpea in the pot, how it leaps up when subdued by the fire.  
Every time the chickpea rises during boiling, it makes a hundred cries at the top of the pot.  
"Why do you set fire to me?" it asks, "When you bought me, why do you now make me suffer?"  
The housewife strikes it with a ladle, saying, "No, boil well and don't complain about the fire."  
"I don't boil you because you are my enemy, but so you may gain flavor and taste."  
"So you may become food and mix with the soul; this test is not for your destruction."  
You drank water in the green and fresh garden; for this fire, that water was given to you.  
His mercy precedes his wrath, so that through mercy, one becomes worthy of the test.  
His mercy precedes his wrath, so that the essence of existence may be attained.  
For without pleasure, flesh and skin do not grow; if they do not grow, how can the love of the friend melt them?  
Thus, if wrath comes, it is to make you sacrifice that essence.  
Then kindness comes to excuse it, for you have bathed and emerged from the stream.  
It says, "O chickpea, you grazed in the spring; the guest's hardship has become your good fortune."  
"So that the guest returns with gratitude, telling the king of your sacrifice."  
"So that the benefactor reaches you in place of the blessing, and all blessings envy you."  
"I am Khalil, and you are the son before the knife; bow your head, for I see you as I sacrifice you."  
"Bow your head to wrath, keep your heart steady, so I may cut your throat like Ishmael."  
"I will cut your head, but this head is one that is free from being cut and dying."  
"But the eternal purpose is your submission; O Muslim, you must seek submission."  
"O chickpea, boil in the trial, so that neither existence nor self remains for you."  
"If you laughed in that garden, you are the flower of the garden of the soul and have seen."  
"If you became separate from the garden of water and clay, you became a morsel and came to life."  
"Become food and strength and thoughts; you were milk, become milk in the jungles."  
"You have escaped from his attributes, by God, first; return to his attributes, agile and swift."  
"You came from the clouds and the sun and the sky; then you became attributes and rose above the sky."  
"You came in the form of rain and sunshine; you go in the delightful attributes."  
"You were part of the sun and clouds and stars; you became breath and action and words and thoughts."  
"Animal existence came from the death of plants; it is true, 'Kill me, O trustworthy ones.'"  
"Since such a fate is ours after death, it is true, 'In my killing is life.'"  
"Action and words and truth became the strength of the angel, so by this ascension, it went to the sky."  
"Just as that food became the strength of man, it rose from inanimacy and became an animal."  
"This speech has a broad translation, which will be said in another place."  
"The caravan constantly arrives from the sky, trading and then departing."  
"So go sweetly and happily with choice, not bitterly and reluctantly like a thief."  
"That is why I tell you the bitter tale, to wash you from bitterness."  
"Cold water releases the frozen grape, removing coldness and frost."  
"When your heart is filled with bitterness, then you will be free from all bitterness."  
The metaphor of a believer becoming patient when aware of the good and bad of trials.  
A hunting dog has no collar; raw and unboiled, it is without taste.  
The chickpea said, "If it is so, O lady, I will boil well, help me with truth."  
"In this boiling, you are like my architect; strike me with the ladle, for you strike well."  
"Like an elephant, strike my head with wounds and scars, so I do not dream of India and the garden."  
"So that I may immerse myself in my boiling, to find a path in that embrace."  
The housewife's apology to the chickpea and the wisdom in boiling the chickpea.  
The lady says to it, "Before this, I was like you, part of the earth."  
"When I drank the fire's struggle, I became receptive and suitable."  
"I boiled for a time in the world, then for another time in the pot of the body."  
"From these two boilings, I became the strength of the senses; I became spirit, then became your master."  
"In inanimacy, I said, 'From that you run, so you may become knowledge and spiritual attributes.'"