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2940-2949

  • If a Turcoman's dog is lying at the door (of the tent), with his face and head resting on the threshold, 2940
  • (Though) the children of the house keep pulling his tail, he will be humble (submissive) in the children's hands.
  • If, however, a stranger pass by, he (the dog) will rush at him like a fierce lion;
  • For he is hard on the unbelievers: to a friend he is (as) the rose, to an enemy as the thorn.
  • He has become so faithful and vigilant on account of the tutmáj broth that the Turcoman has given him.
  • The dog, then, namely the Devil, whom God causes to exist and in whom He creates a hundred thoughts and cunning plans, 2945
  • And whom He feeds with (men's) honours, so that he takes away the honour of the virtuous and the wicked—
  • (For) the honour of the populace is the tutmáj broth by which the Devil-dog is fed—
  • Tell me, how should not his soul be devoted to the (Divine) decree at the door of the tent of Omnipotence?
  • Troop on troop of obedient and rebellious (devils), like the dog (of the Seven Sleepers) spreading his fore-paws on the threshold,