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531-540

  • Become naught, escape from his teeth: do not seek mercy from his (hard) anvil-like heart.
  • After thou hast become naught, do not fear the anvil: take lessons every morning from absolute poverty.
  • Divinity is the mantle of the Lord of glory: it becomes a plague to any one who puts it on.
  • His (God's) is the crown (of sovereignty), ours the belt (of servitude): woe to him that passes beyond his proper bound!
  • Thy peacock-feathers are a (sore) temptation to thee, for thou must needs have co-partnership (with God) and All-holiness. 535
  • Story of the Sage who saw a peacock tearing out his handsome feathers with his beak and dropping them (on the ground) and making himself bald and ugly. In astonishment he asked, “Hast thou no feeling of regret?” “I have,” said the peacock, “but life is dearer to me than feathers, and these (feathers) are the enemy of my life.”
  • A peacock was tearing out his feathers in the open country, where a sage had gone for a walk.
  • He said, “O peacock, how art thou tearing out such fine feathers remorselessly from the root?
  • How indeed is thy heart consenting that thou shouldst tear off these gorgeous robes and let them fall in the mud?
  • Those who commit the Qur’án to memory place every feather of thine, on account of its being prized and acceptable, within the folding of the (Holy) Book.
  • For the sake of stirring the healthful air thy feathers are used as fans. 540