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  • The cawing and noisy cry of the black crow is ever asking for (long) life in this world.
  • Like Iblís, it (the crow) besought the holy and incomparable God for bodily life till the Resurrection.
  • He (Iblís) said, “Grant me a respite till the Day of Retribution.” Would that he had said, “We repent, O our Lord.”
  • Life without repentance is all agony of spirit: to be absent from God is present (instant) death. 770
  • Life and death—both these are sweet with (the presence of) God: without God the Water of Life is fire.
  • Moreover, ’twas from the effect of the (Divine) curse that in such a Presence he was requesting (long) life.
  • To crave of God aught other than God is (merely) the supposition of gain, and (in reality) it is entire loss;
  • Especially (to desire) a life sunk in estrangement (from God) is to behave like a fox in the presence of the lion,
  • (Saying), “Give me longer life that I may go farther back; grant me more time that I may become less.” 775
  • (The result is) that he (such an one) is a mark for the (Divine) curse: evil is that one who seeks to be accursed.