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213-222

  • To-day it lies on me and to-morrow it lies on him: when does the blood of one such as I am go to waste like this?
  • Although the wall casts a long shadow, (yet at last) the shadow turns back again towards it.
  • This world is the mountain, and our action the shout: the echo of the shouts comes (back) to us.” 215
  • He said this and at the (same) moment went under the earth (gave up the ghost). The handmaiden was purged of love and pain,
  • Because love of the dead is not enduring, because the dead one is never coming (back) to us;
  • (But) love of the living is every moment fresher than a bud in the spirit and in the sight.
  • Choose the love of that Living One who is everlasting, who gives thee to drink of the wine that increases life.
  • Choose the love of Him from whose love all the prophets gained power and glory. 220
  • Do not say, “We have no admission to that King.” Dealings with the generous are not difficult.
  • Setting forth how the slaying and poisoning of the goldsmith was (prompted) by Divine suggestion, not by sensual desire and wicked meditation.
  • The slaying of that man by the hand of the physician was not (done) on account of hope or fear.