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  • Your necessitarianism is (like) sleeping on the road: do not sleep! Sleep not, until you see the gate and the threshold! 940
  • Beware! do not sleep, O inconsiderate sluggard, save underneath that fruit-laden tree,
  • So that every moment the wind may shake the boughs and shower upon the sleeper (spiritual) dessert and provision for the journey.
  • (How absurd) to be a necessitarian and sleep amidst highwaymen! How should the untimely bird receive quarter?
  • And if you turn up your nose at His signs, you deem (yourself) a man, but when you consider (more deeply), you are (only) a woman.
  • This measure of understanding which you possess is lost: a head from which the understanding flies away, 945
  • Because ingratitude is wickedness and disgrace and brings the ingrate to the bottom of Hell-fire.
  • If you are putting trust in God, put trust (in Him) as regards (your) work: sow (the seed), then rely upon the Almighty.”
  • How the beasts once more asserted the superiority of trust in God to exertion.
  • They all lifted up their voices (to dispute) with him, saying, “Those covetous ones who sowed (the seed of) means,
  • Myriads on myriads of men and women—why, then, did they remain deprived of fortune?