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  • Your intellect is like the camel-driver, and you are the camel: it drives you in every direction under its bitter control.
  • The saints are the intellect of intellect, and (all) intellects (from the beginning) to the end are (under their control) like camels.
  • Come now, look upon them with (profound) consideration: there is (but) one guide, and a hundred thousand souls (following him).
  • What is the guide and what the camel-driver? Get thee an eye that may behold the Sun! 2500
  • A world has been left nailed fast in night, waiting expectantly, depending on the sun and the day.
  • Here is a sun hidden in a mote, a fierce lion in the fleece of a lamb.
  • Here is an ocean hidden beneath straw: beware, do not step on this straw with hesitancy.
  • (But) a feeling of hesitancy and doubt in the heart (of the foolish) is a Divine mercy in regard to the (spiritual) guide.
  • Every prophet came alone into this world: that Guide was inwardly alone, and (yet) he had a hundred unseen worlds within him. 2505
  • By his power he enchanted the macrocosm (universe), he enfolded himself in a very small frame.