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2135-2144

  • 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.
  • How, then, should there be a dry sod in the river? How should a fish become disobedient to the sea?
  • They impute iniquity to poor me, before whom loyalty (itself) is ashamed.” 2140
  • Were it not for the trouble caused by a person unfamiliar (with my meaning), I would have spoken a few words concerning loyalty;
  • (But) since a world (multitude of people) is seeking (to raise) doubt and difficulty, we will let the discourse run beyond the skin.
  • If you break your (material) self, you will become a kernel and will hear the tale of a goodly kernel.
  • The voices of walnuts are in their skins (shells): where, indeed, is any voice in the kernel and the oil?