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  • The (full) explanation of this (matter) is springing forth (seeking to escape) from my breast, but I am afraid it may give (you cause to) despair.
  • Nay, do not despair: make yourself cheerful, call for help to Him who comes at the call,
  • Saying, “Forgive us, O Thou who lovest to forgive, O Thou who hast a medicine for the old gangrenous disease!”
  • The reflexion of Wisdom led astray that miserable one (the Prophet's scribe): be not self-conceited, lest it (your self-conceit) raise up the dust from you (utterly destroy you).
  • O brother, Wisdom is flowing in upon you: it comes from the Abdál, and in you it is (only) a borrowed thing. 3255
  • Although the house (your heart) has found a light within it, that (light) has shone forth from an illumined neighbour.
  • Render thanks, be not beguiled by vanity, do not turn up your nose (in disdain), hearken attentively, and do not show any self-conceit.
  • ’Tis a hundred pities and griefs that this borrowed (unreal) state (of self-assertion) has put the religious communities far from religious communion.
  • I am the (devoted) slave of him who does not regard himself in every caravanseray (at every stage in his spiritual progress) as having attained to (the privilege of sitting at) the table (of union with God).
  • Many is the caravanseray that must be quitted, in order that one day the man may reach home. 3260