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  • That one will say that Zayd is an exalted siddíq (saint), and this one will say that Zayd is an infidel who ought to be killed.
  • Zayd is one person—to that one (he is as) a shield, (while) to this other one (he is) wholly pain and loss.
  • If you wish that to you he should be (as) sugar, then look on him with the eye of lovers.
  • Do not look on that Beauteous One with your own eye: behold the Sought with the eye of seekers. 75
  • Shut your own eye to that Sweet-eyed One: borrow an eye from His lovers.
  • Nay, borrow eye and sight from Him, and then look on His face with His eye,
  • So that you may be secure from satiety and weariness: on this account the Almighty said, “God shall belong to him:
  • I shall be his eye and hand and heart,” to the end that His fortunate one should escape from adversities.
  • Whatsoever is loathed is a lover and friend when it becomes thy guide towards thy beloved. 80
  • Story of the preacher who at the beginning of every exhortation used to pray for the unjust and hard-hearted and irreligious.
  • A certain preacher, whenever he mounted the pulpit, would begin to pray for the highway robbers (who plunder and maltreat the righteous).