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2129-2138

  • The truth draws the righteous to righteousness; the false class (of things) draws the false (the wicked).
  • (If) the belly be sweet, it draws sweets (to itself); (if) the belly be bilious (acid), it draws vinegar (to itself). 2130
  • A burning (hot) carpet takes away coldness from one who sits (on it); a frozen (cold) carpet consumes (his) heat.
  • (When) you see a friend, mercy is aroused in you; (when) you see an enemy, violence is aroused in you.
  • “O Ayáz, finish this affair quickly, for expectation is a sort of vengeance.”
  • How the King bade Ayáz make haste, saying, “Give judgement and bring the matter to decision immediately, and do not keep them waiting or say, ‘We shall meet after some days,’ for expectation is the red death”; and how Ayáz answered the King.
  • He said, “O King, the command belongs entirely to thee: when the sun is there, the star is naughted.
  • Who is Venus or Mercury or a meteor that they should come forth in the presence of the sun? 2135
  • If I had omitted (to look at) the cloak and sheepskin, how should I have sown such seeds of blame?
  • What was the (use of) putting a lock on the door of the chamber amidst a hundred envious persons addicted to false imagination?
  • Every one of them, having put his hand into the river-water, seeks (to find there) a dry sod.