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  • 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).
  • He would lift up his hand, (crying), “O Lord, let mercy fall upon evil men and corrupters and insolent transgressors,
  • Upon all who make a mock of the good people, upon all whose hearts are unbelieving and those who dwell in the Christian monastery.”
  • He would not pray for the pure; he would pray for none but the wicked.
  • They said to him, “This is unknown (extraordinary): ’tis no generosity to pray for the people of unrighteousness.” 85
  • He replied, “I have seen (experienced) goodness from these folk: for this reason I have chosen to pray for them.
  • They wrought so much wickedness and injustice and oppression that they cast (drove) me forth from evil into good.
  • Whenever I turned my face towards this world, I suffered blows and beating from them,