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  • Oh, there is many a raw (imperfect) one whose blood was shed externally, but whose living fleshly soul escaped to yonder side.

  • Its instrument was shattered, but the brigand was left alive: the fleshly soul is living though that on which it rode has bled to death.

  • His (the rider's) horse was killed before his road was traversed: he became naught but ignorant and wicked and miserable.

  • If a martyr were made by every (mortal) bloodshed, an infidel killed (in battle) also would be a Bú Sa‘íd. 3825

  • Oh, there is many a trusty martyred soul that has died (to self) in this world, (though) it is going about like the living.

  • The brigand (animal) spirit has died, though the body, which is its sword, survives: it (the sword) is (still) in the hand of that eager warrior.

  • The sword is that (same) sword, the man is not that (same) man; but this appearance (of identity) is a cause of bewilderment to you.

  • When the soul is transformed, this sword, namely, the body, remains in the hand of (is wielded by) the action of the Beneficent (God).

  • The one (whose fleshly soul is dead) is a man whose food is entirely (Divine) love; the other is a man hollow as dust. 3830

  • How an informer described a girl and exhibited the picture of her on paper, and how the Caliph of Egypt fell in love with it and sent an Amír with a mighty army to the gates of Mawsil (Mosul) and made great slaughter and devastation for the purpose (of obtaining the girl).

  • An informer said to the Caliph of Egypt, “The King of Mawsil is wedded to a houri.