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1147-1156

  • Go from the world of death towards the (eternal) provision: since everlastingness is possible, do not be perishing’—
  • They will seek (to shed) thy blood and (take) thy life, not in zeal for religion and (spiritual and moral) excellence.
  • The reason why the vulgar are at enmity with, and live in estrangement from, the saints of God who call them unto God and the Water of Life everlasting.
  • Nay, but on account of their sticking to house and goods ’tis bitter (hateful) to them to hear this exposition (given by the prophets).
  • (Suppose) a rag is stuck fast upon the donkey's sore: when you wish to tear it off, bit by bit, 1150
  • The donkey, because of the pain (inflicted on him), will certainly kick: happy the man who abstained from (touching) him!—
  • Especially (when there are) fifty sores, and a soaked rag stuck on the top of them in every case.
  • House and goods are like the rag, and this greed (of thine) is the sore: the greater the greed, the greater the sore.
  • The wilderness alone is the house and goods of the owl: he (the owl) will not listen to descriptions of Baghdád and Tabas.
  • If a royal falcon come from the road and bring to these owls a hundred reports of the King, 1155
  • (With) a full account of the imperial city and the orchards and the rivers—then a hundred enemies will jeer at him,