Analysis of Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 10

One asked the man who had lost his son:

‘O noble and intelligent old man!  
           As thou hast smelt the odour of his garment from Egypt  
           Why hast thou not seen him in the well of Canaan?’  

‘My state is that of leaping lightning.  
           One moment it appears and at another vanishes.  
           I am sometimes sitting in high heaven.  
           Sometimes I cannot see the back of my foot.  
           Were a dervish always to remain in that state  
           He would not care for the two worlds.’