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  • Saying, “Take this other snare, O accursed one.” He replied, “Give more than this, O most excellent Helper.”
  • (Then) He gave him oily and sweet (viands) and costly sherbets and many silken robes.
  • He (Iblís) said, “O Lord, I want more assistance than this, to bind them with a cord of palm-fibre.
  • In order that Thy intoxicated (devotees), who are fierce and courageous, may manfully burst those bonds,
  • And that by means of this snare and (these) cords of sensuality Thy (holy) man may be separated from the unmanly, 950
  • I want another snare, O Sovereign of the throne—a mighty cunning snare that will lay men low.”
  • He (God) brought and placed before him wine and harp: thereat he smiled faintly and was moderately pleased.
  • He (Iblís) sent a message to the eternal Foreordainment of perdition, saying, “Raise dust from the bottom of the sea of temptation.
  • Is not Moses one of Thy servants? He tied veils of dust on the sea.
  • The water retreated on every side: from the bottom of the sea a (cloud of) dust shot up.” 955