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  • The wife said, “When with all thy might thou dost (endeavour to) rise up entirely purged of self-existence—that is veracity.
  • We have the rain-water in the jug: ’tis thy property and capital and means.
  • Take this jug of water and depart, make it a gift and go into the presence of the King of kings. 2705
  • Say, ‘We have no means except this: in the desert there is nothing better than this water.’
  • If his treasury is full of splendid merchandise, (yet) he will have no water like this: ’tis rare.”
  • What is that jug? Our confined body: within it is the briny water of our senses.
  • O Lord, accept this jar and jug of mine by the grace of “God hath purchased (from the believers their lives and wealth in return for Paradise).”
  • (’Tis) a jug with five spouts, the five senses: keep this water pure (and safe) from every filth, 2710
  • That there may be from this jug a passage to the sea, and that my jug may assume the nature of the sea,
  • So that when you carry it as a gift to the King, the King may find it pure and be its purchaser;