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122-131

  • A learned man who shows self-conceit in (displaying) his talents is faithless as the world at the time for keeping faith.
  • At the time when he regards himself (with pride) he is not contained in the world: he has become lost in the gullet and belly, like bread.
  • (Yet) all these (evil) qualities of theirs may become good: evil does not remain when it turns to seeking good.
  • If egoism is foul-smelling like semen, (yet) when it attains unto the spirit (spirituality) it gains light. 125
  • Every mineral that sets its face towards (aspires to evolve into) the plant (the vegetative state)—life grows from the tree of its fortune.
  • Every plant that turns its face towards the (animal) spirit drinks, like Khizr, from the Fountain of Life.
  • Once more, when the (animal) spirit sets its face towards the (Divine) Beloved, it lays down its baggage (and passes) into the life without end.
  • How an inquirer asked (a preacher) about a bird that was supposed to have settled on the wall of a city—“Is its head more excellent and estimable and noble and honourable or its tail?”—and how the preacher gave him a reply suited to the measure of his understanding.
  • One day an inquirer said to a preacher, “O thou who art the pulpit's most eminent expounder,
  • I have a question to ask. Answer my question in this assembly-place, O possessor of the marrow (of wisdom). 130
  • A bird has settled on the city-wall: which is better—its head or its tail?”