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  • Is this a spell, I wonder, that binds the eye or the mind? How does such a lofty flame not burn?
  • Has some one bewitched thee? Or is it magic, or is thy unnatural behaviour from our fortune?”
  • The fire said: “I am the same, O idolator: come in, that thou mayst feel my heat.
  • My nature and element have not changed: I am the sword of God and by (His) leave I cut. 830
  • The Turcoman dogs fawn at the tent-door before the guest,
  • But if any one having the face of a stranger pass by the tent, he will see the dogs rushing at him like lions.
  • I am not less than a dog in devotion, nor is God less than a Turcoman in life (living power).”
  • If the fire of your nature make you suffer pain, it burns by command of the Lord of religion;
  • If the fire of your nature give you joy, (that is because) the Lord of the Judgment puts joy therein. 835
  • When you feel pain, ask pardon of God: pain, by command of the Creator, is efficacious.