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228-237

  • Thou deemedst me as a lamb without the shepherd, thou thoughtest that I have none keeping watch (over me).
  • The cause why lovers have moaned in grief is that they have rubbed their eyes malapropos.
  • They have regarded that Gazelle as being shepherdless, they have regarded that Captive as (one who may be taken) cost-free, 230
  • Till (suddenly) an arrow from the glance (of Divine jealousy) comes (descends) upon the heart, (as though) to say, ‘I am the Keeper: do not look wantonly.
  • How am I meaner than a lamb, meaner than a kid, that there should not be a keeper behind me?
  • I have a Keeper whom it beseems to hold dominion: He knoweth the wind that blows upon me.
  • Whether that wind was cold or hot, that Knowing One is not unaware, is not absent, O infirm man.
  • The appetitive soul is deaf and blind to God: I with my heart was seeing thy blindness from afar. 235
  • For eight years I did not inquire after thee at all, because I saw thee (to be) full of ignorance, fold on fold.
  • Why, indeed, should I inquire after one who is in t he bath-stove (of lust), and say (to him) ‘How art thou?’ when he is (plunged) headlong (in sensuality)?
  • Comparison of this world to a bath-stove and of piety to the bath.