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1890-1899

  • And will say, “If I come one bow’s length towards thee, I shall be instantly consumed.” 1890
  • How the slave was indignant because no reply to his letter arrived from the king.
  • Truly this desert hath no head or foot (top or bottom). That youth, (being) without a reply to his letter, is aggrieved
  • And says, “Oh, ‘tis a wonder. How did the king give me no reply? Or (perchance) the carrier of the letter behaved treacherously because of the torment (of envy),
  • And concealed the letter and did not show it to the king; for he was a hypocrite and (like) a piece of water beneath straw.
  • I will write another letter by way of test and seek another accomplished messenger.”
  • That heedless man ignorantly puts the blame on the Amir and the steward and the letter-carrier. 1895
  • Never does he go round about (inspect) himself and say, “I have acted perversely, like the idolater in (turning away from’ the true) religion.”
  • How the wind blew perversely against Solomon, on whom be peace, because of his lapse.
  • The wind moved perversely against Solomon's throne. Then Solomon said, “O wind, do not creep (along) perversely.”
  • The wind too said, “Do not move perversely (act wrongfully), O Solomon; and if thou move perversely, be not angry at my perverseness.
  • God set up these scales for the purpose that justice might be done to us in eternity.