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1453-1462

  • Communicate the secret, O King: do not hide thy face in the cloud, O Moon!
  • We are loving and true and with wounded (bleeding) hearts: in the two worlds we have fixed our hearts on thee (alone).”
  • He began (to use) foul words and bad names recklessly: he spoke gibberish like madmen. 1455
  • He jumped up and let fly stones and sticks; the whole party fled for fear of blows.
  • He laughed loudly and tossed his head (in scorn). “Look,” said he, “at the vain bluster of these friends!
  • See the friends! Where is the sign of (true) friends? To (true) friends pain is as (dear as) life.”
  • How should a friend turn aside from the pain inflicted by his friend? Pain is the kernel, and friendship is (only) as the husk to it.
  • Has not joy in tribulation and calamity and suffering become the sign of (true) friendship? 1460
  • A friend is like gold, tribulation is like the fire: the pure gold is glad in the heart of the fire.
  • How Luqmán's master tested his sagacity.
  • (Was it) not (the case) that (this happened) to Luqmán, who was a pure (unselfish) slave, and day and night was brisk in service?