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2617-2626

  • The altercation of the man and wife has been related (as a story): know that it is a parable of your own flesh (nafs) and reason.

  • This man and wife, which are the flesh and the reason, are very necessary for (the manifestation of) good and evil;

  • And this necessary pair in this house of earth are (engaged) in strife and altercation day and night.

  • The wife is craving requisites for the household, that is to say, reputation and bread and viands and rank. 2620

  • Like the wife, the flesh, in order to contrive the means (of gratifying its desires), is at one time seeking (having recourse to) humility and at another time to domination.

  • The reason is really unconscious of these (worldly) thoughts: in its brain is nothing but love of God.

  • Although the inner meaning of the tale is this bait and trap, listen now to the outward form of the tale in its entirety.

  • If the spiritual explanation were sufficient, the creation of the world would have been vain and idle.

  • If love were (only spiritual) thought and reality, the form of your fasting and prayer would be non-existent. 2625

  • The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect of love, naught but forms;