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1732-1741

  • All your actions are devoid of light and ugly because you are far, far from the light of your original nature.
  • The splendour of the actions of the vile becomes unsaleable (fades away), just as fresh fruit soon becomes rotten.
  • The splendour of the present life soon produces unsaleableness (becomes of no account), inasmuch as it belongs to the world of generation and corruption.
  • Breasts are not gladdened by an encomium when there are feelings of enmity in the encomiast. 1735
  • O heart, become purged of enmity and repugnance, and then chant “Glory to God” and be busy (in serving Him).
  • (To have) “Glory to God” on your tongue and repugnance within is hypocrisy or guile on the tongue’s part;
  • And moreover God hath said, “I do not look to the exterior, I am regarding the interior.”
  • Story of the encomiast who from regard for reputation was thanking the object of his praise, while the scent (signs) of his inward grief and pain and the shabbiness of his outward garb showed that those expressions of gratitude were vain and false.
  • A certain man came (home) from ‘Iráq, (clad) in a tattered cloak: his friends inquired concerning (his) separation (from them).
  • “Yes,” he replied; “there was (the sorrow of) separation, but the journey was very blessed and fortunate for me, 1740
  • For the Caliph gave me ten robes of honour—may a hundred praises and laudations (ever) accompany him!”