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1313-1322

  • Deem not the weak to be without a champion: recite from the Qur’án (the words), When the help of God shall come.
  • If you are an elephant and your foe fled from you, lo, the retribution came upon you, birds in flocks.
  • If any poor man on the earth beg for mercy, a loud tumult falls on (arises among) the Host of Heaven. 1315
  • If you bite him with your teeth and make him bleed, toothache will attack you—how will you do (then)?
  • The lion saw himself in the well, and in his fury he did not know himself at that moment from the enemy.
  • He regarded his own reflexion as his enemy: necessarily he drew a sword against himself.
  • Oh, many an iniquity that you see in others is your own nature (reflected) in them, O reader!
  • In them shone forth all that you are in your hypocrisy and iniquity and insolence. 1320
  • You are that (evil-doer), and you are striking those blows at yourself: you are weaving a curse upon yourself at that moment.
  • You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with (all) your soul.