四信五品抄六 On the Four Stages of Faith and Five Stages of Practice ６

妙(みょう)楽(らく)の云く「若し悩乱(のうらん)する者は頭七分に破れ、供養すること有る者は福十号に過(す)ぐ」と、

　Miao-lo writes, “Those who vex or trouble [the practitioners of the Lotus Sutra] will have their heads split into seven pieces, but those who give alms to them will enjoy good fortune surpassing the ten honorable titles.”

優陀(うだ)延(えん)王は賓頭盧(びんずる)尊者(そんじゃ)を蔑如(べつじょ)して七年の内に身を喪失(そうしつ)し、

　King Udayana behaved insolently toward the Venerable Pindolabhāradvāja, and within seven years lost his life.

相州(そうしゅう)は日蓮を流罪して百日の内に兵乱に遇(あ)えり。

　The lord of Sagami condemned Nichiren to exile, and within a hundred days armed rebellion broke out in his domain.

　経に云く「若し復(また)是の経典(きょうてん)を受(じゅ)持(じ)する者を見て其の過(か)悪(あく)を出(いだ)さん、若(もし)は実にもあれ若は不実にもあれ、此の人現世に白癩(びゃくらい)の病(やまい)を得(え)ん乃至(ないし)諸悪重病あるべし」

　The sutra says: “If anyone sees a person who accepts and upholds this sutra [Gohonzon and Daishonin's writings] and tries to expose the faults or evils of that person, whether what he speaks is true or not, he will in his present existence be afflicted with white leprosy. . . . and other severe and malignant illnesses.”

　又云く「当に世世に眼無かるべし」等云云、

　It also says, “That person will be born eyeless in existence after existence.”

明心(みょうしん)と円(えん)智(ち)とは現に白癩(びゃくらい)を得(え)・道阿(どうあ)弥(み)は無眼(むげん)の者と成りぬ、

　Myōshin and Enchi contracted white leprosy in their present lifetime, while Dōamidabutsu lost his sight.

　国中の疫病(やくびょう)は頭破(ずは)七分(ぶん)なり

　The epidemics that afflict our nation are punishments of the kind described as “the head being split into seven pieces.”

　罰を以て徳を推するに、我が門人等は福過(ふくか)十号(ごう)疑い無き者なり。

　And if we surmise the degree of benefit according to the degree of punishment, then there can be no doubt that my followers “will enjoy good fortune surpassing the ten honorable titles.”

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