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  • When without deceit ye surrender your hearts (to me), this dirhem will do all this for you.

  • Your one dirhem will become four—the result desired: four enemies will become one through unanimity. 3690

  • What each one of you says produces strife and separation; what I say brings you agreement.

  • Therefore be ye mute, keep silence, that I may be your tongue in speech and talk.”

  • (Even) if your words appear uniform (seem to express an agreement), in effect they are the source of contention and anger.

  • Borrowed (accidental) heat produces no (essential) effect; natural heat hath (its own) effect.

  • If you have made vinegar hot by means of fire, (still) when you drink it, it will undoubtedly increase the coldness (of your constitution), 3695

  • Because that (artificially produced) heat of it is exotic: its fundamental nature is coldness and tartness.

  • And (on the other hand), though grape-syrup be frozen, my son, it will add heat to the liver when you drink it.

  • Hence the Shaykh's hypocrisy is better than our sincerity, for the former arises from (spiritual) insight, while the latter arises from (spiritual) blindness.