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  • Put into our heart subtle words which may move Thee to mercy, O Gracious One!
  • From Thee (come) both the prayer and the answer; from Thee safety, from Thee also dread.
  • If we have spoken faultily, do Thou correct it: Thou art the Corrector, O Thou (who art the) Sultan of speech.
  • Thou hast the alchemy whereby Thou mayst transmute it, and though it be a river of blood, mayst make it a Nile.
  • Such alchemical operations are Thy work, such elixirs are Thy secrets. 695
  • Thou didst beat water and earth together: from water and clay Thou didst mould the body of Adam.
  • Thou gavest him (Man) lineage and wife and uncles, maternal and paternal, with a thousand thoughts and joys and griefs.
  • Again, to some Thou hast given deliverance: Thou hast parted them from this grief and joy;
  • Thou hast borne them away from kindred and relatives and (their own) nature, Thou hast made every fair thing foul in his (such a one's) eyes.
  • He spurns all that is perceived by the senses, and leans for support on that which is invisible. 700