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  • If the leaves of this plane-tree drop off, the Creator will bestow on it the provision of leaflessness (spiritual poverty).
  • If because of your liberality no wealth remains in your hand, how should the bounty of God let you be down-trodden?
  • When any one sows, his barn becomes empty (of seed), but there is goodliness in his cornfield;
  • And, if he leaves it (the seed) in the barn and saves it up, weevils and mice and calamities (of time and decay) devour it entirely. 2240
  • This world is negation (of reality): seek (reality) in affirmation (of God). Your form (body) is void (of reality): seek in your essence.
  • Bring the briny bitter (animal) soul to the sword: buy the (heavenly) soul that is like a great sweet river.
  • And if you cannot become (one of the frequenters) of this threshold (sublime court), at least hear from me the following tale.
  • The story of the Caliph who in his time surpassed Hátim of Tayyi in generosity and had no rival.
  • In former days there was a Caliph who made Hátim the slave of his liberality.
  • He had raised high the banner of munificence and largesse, he had removed poverty and want from the world. 2245
  • (He was) a sea (of bounty), and the pearls (in it) came pure (untarnished) from his munificence: his largesse reached from Qáf to Qáf.