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5
34-43

  • O Khalíl, in (accomplishing) the deliverance of good and bad (alike), cut off their heads that the feet (of the people) may escape from the barrier (which confines them).
  • Thou art all, and they all are parts of thee: open (the prison), for their feet are thy feet. 35
  • By thee the (whole) world is made a place abounding in spirit: a single cavalier becomes the support of a hundred armies.
  • Inasmuch as this body is the abode (nest) of (these) four dispositions, they are named the four mischief-seeking birds.
  • If thou wish the people to have everlasting life, cut off the heads of these four foul and evil birds,
  • (And then) revive them again in another sort, so that afterwards no harm will be done by them.
  • The four immaterial birds which infest the Way have made their home in the hearts of the people. 40
  • Since in this epoch thou, O Vicegerent of God, art the commander of all righteous hearts,
  • Cut off the heads of these four live birds and make everlasting the creatures that are not enduring for ever.
  • There is the duck and the peacock and the crow and the cock: these are a parable of the four (evil) dispositions in (human) souls.