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  • When a fountain gushes from a rock, the rock disappears in the fountain.
  • After that, no one calls it “stone,” seeing that such a pure substance has gushed forth from the rock.
  • Know that these forms are (like) bowls and acquire excellence through that which God pours into them. 3285
  • How the kinsfolk of Majnún said to him, “The beauty of Laylá is limited, it is not so very great: in our city there are many fairer than she. We will show unto thee one or two or ten: take thy choice, and deliver us (from reproach) and thyself (from affliction)”; and how Majnún answered them.
  • The fools in their ignorance said to Majnún, “The beauty of Laylá is not so very great, it is of slight account.
  • There are thousands of moon-like sweethearts fairer than she in our city.”
  • He replied, “The (outward) form is a pot, and beauty is the wine: God is giving me wine from her form.
  • He gave you vinegar from her pot, lest love of her should pull you by the ears.”
  • The hand of God, the Almighty and Glorious, gives poison or honey to every one from the same pot. 3290
  • Thou seest the pot, but the wine does not show itself to the wrong eye.
  • Spiritual experience is (like) the women who look modestly: it shows no sign but to its possessor.