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647-656

  • Worldly riches are a trap for the weak birds; the kingdom of the next world is a trap for the noble birds,
  • To the end that by means of this kingdom, which is a deep trap, the great birds may be ensnared.
  • “I, Solomon, do not desire your kingdom; nay, but I will deliver you from every destruction;
  • For at this time ye are indeed slaves to the kingdom; the owner of the kingdom is he that escaped from destruction.” 650
  • Preposterously, O prisoner of this world, thou hast named thyself prince of this world.
  • O thou slave of this world, thou whose spirit is imprisoned, how long wilt thou call thyself lord of the world?
  • How Solomon, on whom be peace, showed affection and kindness to the envoys and removed (feelings of) resentment and injury from their hearts and explained to them the reason for declining the gift.
  • “O envoys, I will send you as envoys (to Bilqís): my refusal (of the gift) is better for you than acceptance.
  • Relate to Bilqís what marvellous things ye have seen concerning the desert of gold,
  • That she may know we do not covet gold: we have gotten gold from the gold-Creator, 655
  • At whose will the whole earth’s soil from end to end would become gold and precious pearls.”