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3060-3069

  • If any one take a radish from a (greengrocer's) shop, saying, ‘This is decreed by God, O man of understanding,’ 3060
  • You (the greengrocer) will give him two or three blows on the head with your fist, (as though to say), ‘O detestable man, this (beating) is God's decree that you put it (the radish) back here.’
  • Since this excuse, O trifler, is not accepted (even) by a greengrocer in the case of (stealing) a single vegetable,
  • How are you placing (such) a reliance on this excuse and frequenting the neighbourhood of (such) a dragon?
  • By (making) an excuse like this, O ignoble simpleton, you sacrifice all—your life, your property, and your wife;
  • (For) afterwards every one will pluck your moustache and offer (the same) excuse and make himself out to be acting under compulsion. 3065
  • If ‘the decree of God’ seems to you a proper excuse, then instruct me and give me a canonical decision (on the point);
  • For I have a hundred desires and lusts, (but) my hand is tied by fear and awe (of God).
  • Do me a favour, then: teach me the excuse, untie the knots from my hands and feet!
  • You have chosen a handicraft, (thereby) saying (virtually), ‘I have a (certain) choice and a (certain) thought.’