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  • Why are you speaking evil of pure good? Beware, deem not that lowness (vilifying the saints) to be eminence!
  • What is evil? The needy, despicable copper. Who is the Shaykh? The infinite elixir.
  • If the copper was incapable (of being transmuted) by the elixir, (yet) the elixir was never turned into copper by the copper.
  • What is evil? A rebel that works like fire. Who is the Shaykh? The very Seal of Eternity. 3345
  • Fire is always terrified by water. When was water ever afraid of being set aflame?
  • You are observing defects on the face of the moon: you are picking thorns in a Paradise.
  • Picker of thorns, if you go into Paradise, you will find there no thorn but yourself.
  • You are covering a sun with a sod: you are seeking flaws in a perfect full-moon.
  • A sun which shines throughout the world––how shall it be hidden for the sake of a bat? 3350
  • Sins are made sinful by the disapproval of Pírs; mysteries are made mysterious by their jealousy.