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2
578-587

  • I will tell you a story: listen to it attentively, that you may know that selfish desire is a plug in the ear.
  • Whosoever hath (such) desire becomes a stammerer (morally confused); with desire (present), how should the (spiritual) eye and the heart become bright?
  • The fancy of power and wealth before his eye is just as a hair in the eye, 580
  • Except, to be sure, (in the case of) the intoxicated (saint) who is filled with God: though you give (him) treasures (vast riches), he is free;
  • (For) when any one enjoys vision (of God), this world becomes carrion in his eyes.
  • But that Súfí was far removed from (spiritual) intoxication; consequently he was night-blind (purblind) in (his) greed.
  • The man dazed by greed may hear a hundred stories, (but) not a single point comes into the ear of greed.
  • How the criers of the Cadi advertised an insolvent round the town.
  • There was an insolvent person without house or home, who remained in prison and pitiless bondage. 585
  • He would unconscionably eat the rations of the prisoners; on account of (his) appetite he was (a burden) like Mount Qáf on the hearts of the people (in the gaol).
  • No one had the pluck to eat a mouthful of bread, because that snatcher of portions would carry off his entire meal.