Book I Verses 102 to 115

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The Story: How the king led the physician to the bedside of the sick girl, that he might see her condition. Verses: (102-143)
This Story contains three episodes:

Examining the sick girl, (Verses 102-115)
The mysteries of the sun, (Verses 116-122)
Shamsudd’in, (Verses 123-143)

The First Episode: Examining the sick girl, Verses 102-115
The author and the poet of the stories and poems in Persian: Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī
Translator: Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
The commentary of some parts of the poems in Persian is taken from the scholars
of Persian literature:
Badiozzaman Forouzanfar and Karim Zamani
Translator of commentaries: Zeynab Serahati
Narrator and Producer: Zeynab Serahati
Music by: Adnan Joubran, Samir Joubran, Wissam Joubran

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Examining the sick girl

102- He told the tale of the invalid and her illness, and then seated him beside the sick girl.
103- The physician observed the color of her face, felt her pulse, and inspected her urine; he heard both the symptoms and the secondary causes of her malady.
104- He said, “None of the remedies which they have applied builds up health; the false physicians have made destruction.
105- They were ignorant of the inward state. I seek refuge with God from that which they invent.”
106- He saw the pain, and the secret became open to him, but he concealed it and did not tell the king.
107- Her pain was not from black or yellow bile; she didn’t have any problems in her body because the signs and effects of everything are originated from its essence, as the smell of every firewood appears from the smoke.
108- From her sore grief he perceived that it was heart-sore; well in body, but stricken in heart.
109- Being in love is made manifest by soreness of heart, there is no sickness like heartsickness.
110- The lover's ailment is separate from all other ailments; love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God. Astrolabe historically used by astronomers and navigators to measure the altitude above horizon of a celestial body, day or night, and it used to identify stars or planets. Love like an astrolabe can show the mysteries of the sun of the truth because spiritual love can make the soul so subtle that it will be able to navigate the lovers.
111- Whether love be from this (earthly) side or from that (heavenly) side, in the end it leads us ahead.
112- Whatsoever I say in exposition and explanation of Love, when I come to Love (itself) I am ashamed of that (explanation).
113- Although the commentary of the tongue makes (all) clear, yet tongueless love is clearer. Because love is indescribable and the love that can not be described by words is more obvious and more expressive than any other descriptions and words.
114- Whereas the pen was making haste in writing, it splits upon itself as soon as it came to Love.
115- In expounding (Love), the intellect lays down (helplessly) like a donkey in the mire; it was Love (alone) that uttered the explanation of love and loverhood.

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