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  • If he give thee some candy, regard it as poison; if he do a kindness to thy body, regard it as cruelty.
  • When the (Divine) destiny comes to pass, you see naught but the skin (outward appearance): you do not distinguish enemies from friends.
  • Since the case is thus, begin humble supplication; set about lamenting and glorifying (God) and fasting. 1195
  • Lament continually, crying, “O Thou who well knowest the hidden things, do not crush us beneath the stone of evil contrivance.
  • O Creator of the lion, if we have wrought currishness, do not set the lion (to spring) on us from this covert.
  • Do not give to sweet water the form of fire, do not put upon fire the form of water.
  • When Thou makest (us) drunken with the wine of Thy wrath, Thou givest to things non-existent the form of existence.”
  • What is (this) drunkenness? That which binds (prevents) the eye from (true) eyesight, so that a (common) stone appears a jewel, and wool (pashm) a jasper (yashm). 1200
  • What is (this) drunkenness? The perversion of the senses, the change of tamarisk-wood into sandal-wood in the (perverted) sight.
  • Story of the hoopoe and Solomon, showing that when the Divine destiny comes to pass, clear eyes are sealed.
  • When the tent-pavilion was pitched for Solomon, all the birds came to pay him obeisance.