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1091-1100

  • What is injustice? To bestow (it) in an improper place that can only be a source of calamity.
  • Bestow the bounty of God on the spirit and reason, not on the (carnal) nature full of disease and complications.
  • Load the conflict of (worldly) cares upon thy body: do not lay thy anxiety upon the heart and spirit.
  • The pack is laid upon the head of Jesus, (while) the ass is frisking in the meadow.
  • ’Tis not right to put collyrium in the ear: ’tis not right to demand from the body the work of the heart (spirit). 1095
  • If thou art a (devotee of the) heart, go, scorn (the world), do not suffer contumely (from it); and if thou art a (devotee of the) body, do not eat sugar but taste poison.
  • Poison is beneficial to the body, and sugar noxious: ’tis better that the body should be deprived of supplies.
  • The body is fuel for Hell, do thou weaken it; and if it produce a (new) growth of fuel, go, destroy it.
  • Else, O (thou who art) firewood, thou wilt be a carrier of firewood in both worlds, like the wife of Bú Lahab.
  • Know (discriminate) the bough of the Sidra from the firewood, though both are green, O youth. 1100