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  • So long as thou art regarding the holy (prophets and saints) as men, know that that view is an inheritance from Iblís.
  • If thou art not the child of Iblís, O contumacious one, then how has the inheritance of that cur come to thee?
  • “I am not a cur, I am the Lion of God, a worshipper of God: the lion of God is he that has escaped from (phenomenal) form.
  • The lion of this world seeks a prey and provision; the lion of the Lord seeks freedom and death. 3965
  • Inasmuch as in death he sees a hundred existences, like the moth he burns away (his own) existence.”
  • Desire for death became the badge of the sincere, for this word (declaration) was (made) a test for the Jews.
  • He (God) said in the Qur‘án, “O people of the Jews, death is treasure and gain to the sincere.
  • Even as there is desire for profit (in the hearts of the worldly), the desire to win death is better than that (in the eyes of the sincere).
  • O Jews, for the sake of (being held in) honour by men of worth, let this wish be uttered on your tongues.” 3970
  • Not a single Jew had so much courage (as to respond), when Mohammed raised this banner (gave this challenge).