Nasuh

There was a man named Nasooh, who was a bath attendant for women and found success in this deceitful work.  
His face was like that of women, and he hid his true identity.  
He worked in the women's bathhouse, skilled in deceit and trickery.  
For years he worked as a bath attendant, and no one discovered his secret or his desires.  
Because his voice and appearance were like a woman's, but his desires were strong and awake.  
He wore a veil and headscarf, a man of lust in the prime of youth.  
He would massage and wash the daughters of kings in this way, enjoying it.  
He would repent and withdraw, but his sinful soul would tear his repentance apart.  
He went to a mystic, that wicked man, and said, "Remember me in your prayers."  
The mystic knew his secret, but since God's patience was not revealed,  
His lips were sealed, and his heart was full of secrets, silent lips and a heart full of voices.  
Mystics who have drunk from the cup of truth know secrets and keep them hidden.  
Whoever is taught the secrets of the work, they seal their lips and sew their mouths shut.  
He laughed softly and said, "O ill-natured one, may God grant you repentance, as you know."  
In explaining that the prayer of a true mystic and his request from God is like God's request from Himself, "I became his hearing, sight, tongue, and hand," and "You did not throw when you threw, but God threw," and there are many verses, traditions, and stories about this, explaining how God creates a cause to bring the sinner to sincere repentance.  
That prayer passed through the seven heavens, and the poor man's situation finally improved.  
Because the prayer of the sheikh is not like any other prayer; he is annihilated, and his words are God's words.  
When God asks and strives for something, how can He reject His own prayer?  
The Creator of Majesty created a cause that saved him from curses and calamities.  
In that bathhouse, a basin was being filled, and a jewel from the daughter of the king was lost.  
A jewel from her earrings was lost, and every woman was searching for it.  
Then they tightly closed the bathhouse door to search first among the clothes.  
They searched the clothes, but it was not found, and the jewel thief was not exposed.  
Then they began searching seriously, not randomly, in mouths, ears, and every crevice.  
The chamberlain began searching each one to find the precious jewel.  
Nasooh, out of fear, went into seclusion, his face yellow and lips blue from fear.  
He saw death before his eyes, trembling like a leaf.  
He said, "O Lord, I have turned back many times, broken my repentance and vows.  
I have done what was expected of me until this black flood arrived.  
If the search reaches me, oh, what hardships my soul will endure.  
A hundred sparks have fallen into my heart; see the scent of my liver in my supplication.  
May such grief never befall an infidel; I have grasped the hem of mercy, crying for help.  
I wish my mother had not given birth to me, or a lion had devoured me in the wild.  
O God, do what befits You, for every snake is biting me from every hole.  
I have a heavy soul and an iron heart; otherwise, I would have turned to blood in this pain and lament.  
Time is short for me, and I have one breath; be a king and come to my aid.  
If You cover for me this time, I have repented from every wrongdoing.  
Accept my repentance this time, so I may gird myself with a hundred belts for repentance.  
If I fail again, do not listen to my prayers and words.  
He was lamenting and shedding a hundred tears, saying, "I have fallen into the hands of the executioner and the guards.  
May no Frank die like this, may no heretic experience this lament."  
He lamented over his soul, seeing the face of Azrael before him.  
"O God, O God," he said so much that the walls and doors joined him.  
In the midst of "O Lord, O Lord," he was, when a voice came from the midst of the search.  
The turn to search reached Nasooh, and a voice came saying, "We have searched everyone; search Nasooh," and Nasooh fainted from the terror, and the situation opened up after extreme difficulty, as the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, says, "When a disease or worry afflicts him, the crisis intensifies, then it opens up."  
"We have searched everyone; come forward, O Nasooh," and he fainted, his soul flew away.  
He fell like a broken wall, his senses and mind gone, he became like an inanimate object.  
When his senses left his body without permission, his head joined with God at that moment.  
When he became empty and his existence remained no more, God called his soul back.  
When his ship broke without a goal, it fell into the sea of mercy.  
His soul joined with God when he became unconscious, and the wave of mercy surged at that moment.  
When his soul was freed from the shame of the body, he went joyfully to his origin.  
The soul like a falcon and the body a shackle, a bound, wing-broken servant.  
When his senses left and his feet were freed, that falcon flew towards Kayqubad.  
When the seas of mercy surged, even stones drank the water of life.  
The thin particle became great and fat, the earthly carpet became brocade and gold-woven.  
A hundred-year-old dead rose from the grave, the accursed demon became as beautiful as a fairy.  
All the earth became green, the dry wood blossomed and became delightful.  
The wolf became a companion to the lamb, the hopeless became happy and well.  
The jewel was found, and the chamberlains and maidservants of the princess sought forgiveness from Nasooh.  
After that deadly fear, good news came that the lost was found.  
A sudden voice came that the fear is gone, the lost orphan jewel was found.  
It was found, and we rejoiced in it; give us good news that the jewel was found.  
From the clamor and shouting and clapping, the bathhouse was filled; the sorrow was gone.  
Nasooh returned to himself, his eyes saw the light of a hundred days more.  
Everyone sought forgiveness from him, kissing his hands many times.  
"We suspected you, forgive us; we ate your flesh in gossip and talk.  
Because the suspicion was mostly on him, as he was the closest to everyone.  
He was the special bath attendant and confidant of Nasooh, like two bodies with one soul.  
If he took the jewel, only he could have taken it; no one was closer to the lady than him.  
They wanted to search him first, but out of respect, they delayed.  
So that he might throw it back in place, in this respite, he saved himself.  
They sought forgiveness from him and rose for apology.  
He said, "It was the grace of the just God, otherwise, I am worse than what was said about me.  
Who knows about me except a little of my thousands of crimes and bad deeds?  
I know, and my concealer knows, my crimes and the ugliness of my deeds.  
First, Satan was my teacher, then Satan was like wind before me.  
God saw all that and ignored it, so I would not become disgraced and pale-faced.  
Again, mercy sewed me a coat, sweet repentance became my soul's provision.  
All I did was taken as undone, unperformed obedience was accepted.  
Like a cypress and lily, I was freed, like fortune and wealth, my heart was gladdened.  
My name was written in the book of the pure, I was hell-bound, but He granted me paradise.  
I sighed, and my sigh became a rope, the rope hung in my well.  
I grabbed that rope and came out, happy, strong, fat, and rosy.  
I was lowly at the bottom of a well, now I do not fit in the whole world.  
Blessings be upon You, O God, You suddenly separated me from sorrow.  
If every hair on my head had a tongue, the thanks to You would not be expressed.  
I shout in this garden and eyes, "O people, if only my people knew."