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823-832

  • Our body is our veil in the world: we are like a sea hidden beneath this straw.
  • O fool, do not regard the king of the (true) Religion as clay; for the accursed Iblís took this view (of Adam).
  • How is it possible to daub this sun with a handful of earth? Pray, tell me (that)! 825
  • Though you pour earth and a hundred ashes over its light, it will come up above them.
  • Who (what) is straw that it should cover the face of the water? Who (what) is clay that it should cover the sun?
  • O Bilqís arise royally, like (Ibráhím son of) Adham: raise the smoke from (consume utterly) this kingdom of two or three days’ duration.
  • The remainder of the story of Ibráhím son of Adham, may God sanctify his spirit.
  • (Reclining) on a throne, that man of good name heard at night a noise of tramping and shrill cries from the roof.
  • (He heard) loud footsteps on the roof of the palace, and said to himself, “Who dares to do this?” 830
  • He shouted, at the palace-window, “Who is it? This is not a man, belike it is a genie.
  • A wondrous folk put their heads down (from the roof), (saying), “We are going round by night for the purpose of search.”