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  • Behold their bones and their hair! Take warning, and drive not your ass towards them! 2950
  • Seize the neck of your ass (the flesh) and lead him towards the Way, towards the good keepers and knowers of the Way.
  • Beware! do not let your ass go, and do not remove your hand from him, because his love is for the place where green herbs are plentiful.
  • If you carelessly leave him free for one moment, he will go (many) leagues in the direction of the herbage.
  • The ass is an enemy to the Way, (he is) madly in love with fodder: oh, many is the attendant on him that he has brought to ruin!
  • If you know not the Way, whatsoever the ass desires, do the contrary thereof: that, surely, will be the right Way. 2955
  • (The Prophet said), “Consult them (women), and then oppose (them in what they advise): he that disobeys them not will be ruined.”
  • Be not a friend to (sensual) passion and desire, since it leads you astray from the Way of God.
  • Nothing in the world will break (mortify) this passion like the shadow (protection) of fellow-travellers.
  • How the Prophet, on whom be peace, enjoined ‘Alí—may God make his person honoured—saying, “When every one seeks to draw nigh to God by means of some kind of devotional act, do thou seek the favour of God by associating with His wise and chosen servant, that thou mayst be the first of all to arrive (to gain access to Him).”
  • The Prophet said to ‘Alí, “O ‘Alí, thou art the Lion of God, thou art a courageous knight,