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  • If wheat is broken and torn asunder (in the mill), it appears in the (baker’s) shop, saying, “Look! a perfect loaf!” 345
  • “Thou too, O lover, since thy crime has become manifest, abandon water and oil (specious varnish) and be broken (contrite).
  • Those who are the elect children of Adam sigh forth (the confession), ‘verily we have done wrong.’
  • Submit thy petition, do not argue like the accursed hard- faced (impudent) Iblis.
  • If impudence concealed his fault, go, exert thyself in (showing) obstinacy and impudence!
  • Abu Jahl, like a vindictive Ghuzz Turcoman, demanded a miracle from the Prophet; 350
  • But that Siddiq of God (Abu Bakr) did not crave a miracle: he said, ‘Verily, this face speaks naught but truth.’
  • How should it beseem one like thee, from egoism, to make trial of a beloved like me?”
  • How the Jew said to ‘Alí, may God honour his person, "If thou hast confidence in God's protection, cast thyself down from the top of this kiosk"; and how the Prince of the Faithful answered him.
  • One day a contumacious man, who was ignorant of the reverence due to God, said to Murtazá (‘Alí),
  • On the top of an exceedingly high terrace or pavilion, “Art thou conscious of God's protection, O intelligent man?”