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337-346

  • Go, do not commit foulness, for (even) our fair deeds appear foul in the sight of our beauteous (Loved One).
  • You deemed your service worthy: thereby you raised the banner of sin.
  • Forasmuch as praise and prayer were vouchsafed to you, through making that prayer your heart became vainglorious.
  • You regarded yourself as speaking (confidentially) with God. Oh, (there is) many a one that becomes separated (from God) by this opinion. 340
  • Although the King sit with you on the ground, know yourself and sit better (with more decorum and reverence).
  • The falcon said, “O King, I am penitent, I am converted, I am embracing Islam anew.
  • He whom Thou makest drunken and pot-valiant—if from drunkenness he walk crookedly, do Thou accept his excuse.
  • Though my talons are gone, when thou art mine I tear off the forelock of the sun;
  • And though my wings are gone, when Thou art kind to me the heavenly sphere loses its play (ceases to revolve). 345
  • If Thou bestow a belt on me, I will uproot the mountain; if Thou give me a pen, I will break the banners.