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3715-3724

  • I have a hidden vein in every land: (all) the regions of the world are fastened to my veins. 3715
  • When God wills an earthquake in any land, He bids me and I cause the vein to throb.
  • Then I make to move mightily the vein with which the (particular) land is connected.
  • When He says ‘Enough!’ my vein rests. I am (apparently) at rest, but actually I am in rapid motion”—
  • At rest, like the (medicinal) ointment, and very active (efficacious); at rest, like the intellect, while the speech (impelled) by it is moving.
  • In the opinion of him whose intelligence does not perceive this, earthquakes are caused by terrestrial vapours. 3720
  • An ant, walking on a piece of paper, saw the pen writing and began to praise the pen. Another ant, which was more keen-sighted, said, "Praise the fingers, for I deem this accomplishment to proceed from them." Another ant, more clear-sighted than either, said, "I praise the arm, for the fingers are a branch of the arm," et cetera.
  • A little ant saw a pen (writing) on a paper, and told this mystery to another ant,
  • Saying, “That pen made wonderful pictures like sweet basil and beds of lilies and roses.”
  • The other ant said, “That artist is the finger, and this pen is actually (no more than) the derivative (instrument) and the sign.”
  • A third ant said, “It is the work of the arm, by whose strength the slender finger depicted it.”