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2115-2124

  • For if, base wretch, thou shouldst mix with me, it will be thought that thou art of my stock. 2115
  • For nightingales the garden is the proper place; for the beetle the best home is in ordure.”
  • Since God has kept me pure from filth, how were it seemly to appoint a foul one for (companionship with) me?
  • I had (in me) a vein of them (of their nature). He (God) cut it out: how (then) will he with the vein of evil attain unto me?
  • One mark of Adam from eternity was this, that the angels should lay their heads (on the ground) before him, because it was his place (proper to his dignity).
  • Another mark was that Iblís, saying, “I am the king and chief,” should not lay down his head before him. 2120
  • If, then, Iblís too had become a worshipper (of Adam), he (Adam) would not have been Adam: he would have been another.
  • At once the worship of every angel is the test of him, and the denial (of him) by that enemy (Iblís) is the proof of him.
  • At once the acknowledgment (made) by the angels is witness for him, and the disbelief of that petty cur (Iblís) is witness for him.
  • Conclusion of the (story concerning the) trust of that deluded man in the fawningness of the bear.
  • The man fell asleep, and the bear kept driving away the flies (which were) on him, but in spite of him they soon came back again.