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4
249-258

  • Your cupidity is like fire in the (material) world: every (flaming) tongue (thereof) has opened a hundred mouths (to swallow filthy lucre).
  • In the sight of Reason, this gold is foul as dung, although, like dung, it is (the cause of) the blazing of the fire. 250
  • The sun, which emulates the fire, makes the moist filth fit for the fire.
  • The sun also made the stone gold, in order that a hundred sparks might fall into the stove of cupidity.
  • He who says, “I have collected riches”—what is (the meaning of) it? It means, “I have brought in all this filth.”
  • Albeit this saying is exceedingly disgraceful, there are boasts on this account amongst the stokers.
  • (One of them says), “Thou hast carried (only) six baskets ere nightfall; I have carried twenty baskets without trouble.” 255
  • He that was born in the stove and never saw purity, the smell of musk produces a painful effect upon him.
  • Story of the tanner who fainted and sickened on smelling otto and musk in the bazaar of the perfumers.
  • A certain man fell senseless and curled up as soon as he came into the bazaar of the perfumers.
  • The scent of the perfume (floating) from the goodly perfumers smote him, so that his head reeled and he fell on the spot.