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  • ‘Here thou art killing me daily, thou art putting my (vital) spirit (on the rack), like the spirits of infidels.
  • No one is aware of my plight—how thou art killing me (by keeping me) without sleep and food. 3795
  • In war I should escape from the body at one stroke, and the people would see my manly valour and self-sacrifice.’
  • I replied, ‘O wretched soul, a hypocrite thou hast lived and a hypocrite thou wilt die: what (a pitiful thing) art thou!
  • In both worlds thou hast been a hypocrite, in both worlds thou art such a worthless creature.’
  • I vowed that I would never put my head outside of (come out of) seclusion, seeing that this body is alive,
  • Because everything that this body does in seclusion it does with no regard to man or woman. 3800
  • During seclusion the intention of (all) its movement and rest is for God's sake only.”
  • This is the Greater Warfare, and that (other) is the Lesser Warfare: both are (fit) work for (men like) Rustam and Haydar (‘Alí).
  • They are not (fit) work for one whose reason and wits fly out of his body when a mouse's tail moves.