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  • Slay me, my trusty friends, slay me, vile as I am: verily, in my being slain is my life for evermore.
  • Verily, in my death is my life, O youth—how long shall I be parted from my home? Until when? 3935
  • If there were not in my staying (in this world) my separation (from God), He would not have said, ‘Verily, we are returning to Him.’”
  • The returning one is he that comes back to his (native) city, and (fleeing) from the separation (plurality) of Time approaches the Unity.
  • How the stirrup-holder of ‘Alí, may God honour his person, came (to him), saying, “For God's sake, kill me and deliver me from this doom.”
  • “He came back, saying, ‘O‘ Alí, kill me quickly, that I may not see that bitter moment and hour.
  • Shed my blood, I make it lawful to thee, so that my eye may not behold that resurrection’.
  • I said, ‘If every atom should become a murderer and, dagger in hand, go to attack thee, 3940
  • None (of them) could cut from thee the tip of a single hair, since the Pen has written against thee such a line (of doom).
  • But do not grieve: I am intercessor for thee: I am the spirit's master, I am not the body's slave.
  • This body hath no value in my sight: without my body I am the noble (in spirit), the son of the noble.