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902-911

  • They made a plot: they came to the lion, saying, “We will keep thee full-fed by means of a (fixed) allowance.
  • Henceforth do not come in quest of any prey in order that this grass may not become bitter to us.”
  • How the lion answered the beasts and explained the advantage of exertion.
  • “Yes,” said he, “if I see (find) good faith (on your part), not fraud, for often have I seen (suffered) frauds from Zayd and Bakr.
  • I am done to death by the cunning and fraud of men, I am bitten by the sting of (human) snake and scorpion; 905
  • (But) worse than all men in fraud and spite is the man of the flesh (nafs) lying in wait within me.
  • My ear heard ‘The believer is not bitten (twice),’ and adopted (this) saying of the Prophet with heart and soul.”
  • How the beasts asserted the superiority of trust in God to exertion and acquisition.
  • They all said: “O knowing sage, let precaution alone: it is of no avail against the Divine decree.
  • In precaution is the embroilment of broil and woe: go, put thy trust in God: trust in God is better.
  • Do not grapple with Destiny, O fierce and furious one, lest Destiny also pick a quarrel with thee. 910
  • One must be dead in presence of the decree of God, so that no blow may come from the Lord of the daybreak.”
  • How the lion upheld the superiority of exertion and acquisition to trust in God and resignation.