ÜÇÜNCÜ FEN · ÜÇÜNCÜ BÂB · ÜÇÜNCÜ FASIL · Beşinci Madde
With patience, all perfections are attained; with patience, everyone finds well-being; and the end of patience is acceptance.
O esteemed one! It is known that the friends of Allah have said: The cause of the emergence of all sciences, devotions, and every noble knowledge is patience and forbearance. The path to deliverance from all regret and reproach and to safety is patience and cautiousness (circumspection). The end of the pain of patience is the sweet beginning of acceptance, which is the means to attaining worldly and otherworldy felicity, the light of eyes.
It has been narrated that once a cart driver had a passion for learning knowledge fall into his heart, so he sold his carts (as if plundering them, without regard for cheap or expensive) and provided for all the needs of his pregnant wife, after obtaining her permission. With her consent, he went to another town to pursue education. For twenty years, he acquired and learned Arabic and religious sciences. Then, he set out on a journey to return to his homeland. During his travels, he became a guest of a perfect (kamil) person and related his situation to him. This perfect person asked the scholar, “What is the origin of [257/a] the sciences and actions?” The scholar was unable to answer this question and referred the answer to that kamil.
The kamil said: "If you serve us for a while, you will return home having learned the essence of knowledge." The scholar accepted this offer and stayed with him for two years. After those two years, that kamil said to the person with affection: “My son! Come, let me tell you what is the essence of knowledge, so you may go to your family. You shall pray for me throughout your life.”
O learned one! Know very well that patience is the head of all knowledge and actions, all kinds of insights and perfections. All these are attained only through patience. Forbearance and circumspection are also related to patience. If you act with patience in every matter, you will be free from all regret. You will attain joy and bliss in this world and the hereafter.
The reason I kept you with me for two years so that you might obtain such a precious jewel as patience is so that you may know the value of patience and never forget it.
The scholar, having obtained this precious jewel and received the prayer of that kamil, requested permission to return home. When he reached the door of his own house, it was evening time. Before entering the house, he thought: “Before I enter my home, from which I have not received any news for twenty-two years, let me look through the keyhole and see who is staying in the house.”
Looking through the hole, he saw a young man embracing his wife affectionately. At that moment, he was stunned; as he considered killing the young man by shooting an arrow from the hole he had looked through, it occurred to him to be patient. He said: “Let me not lose the jewel I learned by waiting two years. First, let me go to the door. Then, let me kill this young man.”
When he knocked on the door, the young man called out from inside, "Who is there?" The scholar replied, "I am the former owner of this house." At that moment, the wife recognized her husband's voice and joyfully told the young man, “Go, my son, open the door. Your father has come who went abroad before you were born.”
That patient person learned from these words that the young man in the house was his own son and was saved from a great regret he might have encountered had it not been for patience. He praised and glorified Allah, Who gave him this patience and made him experience joy. He found happiness throughout the remainder of his life. (The kamil person who kept him waiting for two years for training in patience) prayed for him and became a teacher and compiler. He revived Hanafi jurisprudence and composed the work *Kuduri*.
Couplet
May the one who has instilled it within,
Bring forth joy and ease nearby.
Couplet (in translation)
After the suffering I endured last night, may joy soon arrive.
Couplet
Endure with patience the unbearable trials,
The outcome will be pleasant, O heart.
In modern Turkish
Be patient with unbearable calamities, be steadfast. Patience is pleasant in the end, oh soul.
It has been narrated that a perfect person, before dying, called his son and said: “I have an advice to give you, which I bequeath to you. If you accept it and act upon it, you will be acceptable to people and Allah in this world and the hereafter, and you will find safety and bliss in every condition.”
His son said to that perfect person: "Tell me your advice, I shall accept it wholeheartedly. I shall go wherever you guide me." Hearing his son’s acceptance, his father said: “My son, be a scissor for a candle!” and passed away.
Then, some interpreted this wise saying with patience, and others with acceptance. Those who interpreted it with acceptance have acted in accordance with the intention of that kamil, because patience is concealing the pain from affliction; [257/b] it is not wailing and lamenting (cajoling and feigning). Acceptance is not feeling any sorrow at all from calamity.
The candle scissor’s not being bothered by the fire from the wick of the candle, nor by the smoke and its smell, indicates that when that perfect person said to his son, “Be a scissor for a candle,” he was conveying to him acceptance of Allah's decree. For the station of acceptance is above the station of patience, and whoever attains acceptance with patience has attained it from the Lord.
Poem
1- Ease matters upon yourself
And be patient on their course
2- We have seen many grievers
Afterward joy comes to them
Poem (in translation)
1- Make things easy for your own self
Practice patience in facing hardships.
2- Many sorrowful friends I’ve seen,
Joy follows after their grief.
Quatrain
1- For every grieving one, a joyful heart awaits, keep your soul content.
There is no ailment without a remedy, O my heart.
2- Never shall the evening remain without patience,
Whatever hardship there may be, make it easy, O my heart.
Okay, here's the translation of the provided text, aiming for faithfulness and preserving meaning within a classical Islamic/Sufi context:
**Ruba’i (Quatrain)**
1. With thorns of sorrow, let you sit some days,
Then blossoms of delight you shall attain.
2. From the cup of grief, if you have grown drunk,
Be content; then from wine of joy you'll gain.
**Nazm (Poem/Verses)**
1. Bestow patience, do not haste in affairs,
For with patience, bitter becomes sweet fare.
2. With patience, your foes become your friends,
And those who block the path, your guides extend.
3. Patience is among the Divine Names,
A wisdom boundless, free from all restraints.
4. He who partook of sweetness in wisdom’s grace,
Found patience the key to blessings' embrace.
5. Patience unravels every knot of care,
And through patience, darkness yields to light rare.