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1275-1284

  • And once more that bezel (paragon of beauty) would arrange her veil, and (again) the bits of the Book would fall from her face to the ground. 1275
  • Since they always dropped off though she tried many an artifice, (at last) she exclaimed, “A hundred curses on Iblís!”
  • Immediately Iblís took (visible) shape and said (to her), “O luckless dried-up harlot,
  • In all my life I have never thought of this: I have never seen this (impiety practised) by any harlot except thee.
  • Thou hast sown unique seed in (the field of) infamy: thou hast not left a single Scripture (Qur’án) in the world.
  • Thou art a hundred Devils, troop on troop: let me alone, O foul hag!” 1280
  • How long will you steal portions of the lore of the Book, in order that your face may be coloured like an apple?
  • How long will you steal the words of the men of God, that you may sell (them) and obtain applause (from the crowd)?
  • The daubed-on colour never made you (really) rosy; the tied-on bough never performed the function of the (fruit-bearing) stump (from which the dates are cut off).
  • At last, when the veil of death comes over you, these bits of the Book drop away from your face.