The Gift of Water

Jurisprudence, jurisprudence, grammar, grammar, and morphology, morphology, you will find it insufficient, my remarkable friend.  
That jug is the water of our knowledge, and that caliph is the Tigris of God's wisdom.  
We take the full jugs to the Tigris; if we are not wise, we are donkeys ourselves.  
Indeed, the Arab was excused, for he was unaware of the Tigris and the river.  
When the caliph saw him and heard his story, he filled the jug with gold and more.  
He relieved the Arab from poverty, giving him gifts and special robes.  
"Give this jug full of gold to him, and when he returns, take him to the Tigris."  
He came by dry land and from a journey; by water, it would be closer for him.  
When he boarded the ship and saw the Tigris, he bowed in humility and bent down.  
"Oh, what a wonder is the grace of this generous king, and even more wondrous that he accepted that water."  
When that sea of generosity accepted from me such counterfeit currency so quickly.  
Consider the whole world a jug, my son, filled with knowledge and goodness to the brim.  
A drop from the Tigris of his goodness, which cannot be contained under the skin due to its fullness.  
The hidden treasure burst from fullness, making the earth more radiant than the heavens.  
The hidden treasure overflowed from fullness, making the earth a sultan dressed in brocade.  
If you had seen a branch of God's Tigris, it would have annihilated that jug completely.  
Those who saw it are always beside themselves, striking the jug with a stone in their ecstasy.  
Oh, you who struck the jug with a stone out of jealousy, this jug has become more complete from its breaking.  
The broken jug did not spill water; a hundred perfections arose from this break.  
Each part of the jug is dancing and in a state, showing the impossibility to the partial intellect.  
Neither the jug is visible in this state nor the water; observe well, and God knows best the truth.