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1019-1028

  • Even as He hath caused the light to flow from the fountain of your eye without stint or abatement:
  • It has no source of supply either in the fat (the white of the eye) or in the coating (retina); (but) the Beloved made (these) a veil (for Himself) when bringing (the light) into existence. 1020
  • The attracting air in the cavity of the ear apprehends that which is spoken, (whether) true or false.
  • What is that air within that little bone, (that air) which receives the words and sounds uttered by the story-teller?
  • The bone and the air are only a veil: in the two worlds there is none except God.
  • He is the hearer, He is the speaker, (whom mystics behold) unveiled; for the ears belong to the head, O you who have merited the Divine recompense.
  • He (the Jew) said, “If thou art feeling pity for him, give (me) gold and take him (in exchange), O man of generous disposition. 1025
  • Since thy heart is burning (with sympathy), ransom him from me: thy difficulty will not be solved without expense.”
  • He replied, “I will perform a hundred services (on his behalf) and five hundred prostrations (in thanksgiving for success). I have a handsome slave, but (he is) a Jew;
  • He has a white body, but a black heart: take (him), and give (me) in exchange that one whose body is black but whose heart is illumined.”