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941-950

  • When dust shall fill these eyes in the tomb, have you that which will make the grave bright?
  • At the time when your hands and feet shall be torn in shreds, have you wings and plumes that your spirit may fly aloft?
  • At the time when this animal soul is no more, it behoves you to set the everlasting spirit in its place.
  • The stipulation of (implied in) he that comes with good (shall be rewarded tenfold) does not consist in doing (good); it consists in bringing this good to the presence of God.
  • You have a substance (essence) human or asinine (bestial): (bring that to God): how can you bring (to Him) these accidents (of word or deed) which have passed away? 945
  • As regards these accidents of prayer and fasting—since (that which) does not endure for two moments becomes naught—
  • ’Tis impossible to carry over the accidents (into another state); but they (may) take away diseases (defects) from the substance,
  • So that the substance becomes changed by means of this accident, as when disease is removed by abstinence.
  • By exertion abstinence, (which is) the accident, becomes the substance: through abstinence the acrid mouth becomes (sweet as) honey.
  • Land, through sowing, is turned into ears of corn; remedies for the hair turn the hair into chains (make it long and curly). 950