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  • This (bodily) dying became (as unformidable) to me as sleeping, from my confidence that Thou, O God, wouldst raise me from the dead.
  • If the Seven Seas become a mirage at every moment, Thou wilt take it (the water) by the ear and bring it (back), O Water (Source) of the water. 4225
  • Reason is trembling with fear of death, but Love is bold: how should the stone be afraid of rain as the clod (is)?
  • This is the Fifth of the Scrolls (Books) of the Mathnawí: it is like the stars in the zodiacal signs of the spiritual sky.
  • Not every sense can find its way by the star: (none can do so) except the mariner acquainted with the star.
  • The lot of the others is naught but looking (at it): they are ignorant of its auspiciousness and (fortunate) conjunction.
  • During the nights till daybreak make thyself familiar with devil-burning stars like these, 4230
  • Every one (of which) is hurling naphtha from the fortress of Heaven to drive away the evil-thinking devil.
  • To the devil the stars are (noxious) as a scorpion, (but) to the buyer (of Truth) it (the star) is the next of kin (the nearest and dearest).
  • If the Bow (Sagittarius) pierce the devil with an arrow, (yet) the Bucket (Aquarius) is full of water for the crops and fruit.