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  • The little bat is not an enemy to the sun: it is an enemy to itself in the veil (of its own blindness).
  • The glow of the sun kills it; how should the sun ever suffer annoyance from it?
  • An enemy is one from whom torment proceeds, (one who) hinders the ruby from (receiving the rays of) the sun.
  • All the infidels hinder themselves from (receiving) the rays of the prophets' (spiritual) jewel.
  • How should (unbelieving) people veil the eyes of that peerless one (the prophet or saint)? The people have (only) blinded and distorted their own eyes. 795
  • (They are) like the Indian slave who bears a grudge and kills himself to spite his master:
  • He falls headlong from the roof of the house (in the hope) that he may have done some harm to his master.
  • If the sick man become an enemy to the physician, or if the boy show hostility to the teacher,
  • In truth they act as brigands against themselves: they themselves waylay their own mind and spirit.
  • If a fuller take offence at the sun, if a fish is taking offence at the water, 800