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2746-2755

  • In spite of all blows the Elephant's feet would not move, either much or little, towards the Ka‘ba.
  • You would have said that its legs were paralysed or that its impetuous spirit was dead.
  • (But) whenever they turned its head towards Yemen, the fierce Elephant would begin to stride (forward) with the speed of a hundred horses.
  • (Since) the Elephant's perception was aware of the blow (coming) from the Unseen, how (much more) must the perception of the saint (endowed) with (the Divine) afflatus be (aware)!
  • Is it not (the case) that the prophet Jacob, that man of holy nature, (said) for Joseph's sake to all his (Joseph's) brethren— 2750
  • When the brothers begged their father to give him to them, that they might take him to the country for a while,
  • (And) they all said to him, “Do not be afraid of harm (befalling him): give him one or two days' time, O father;
  • For why wilt not thou entrust thy Joseph to us in going about and travelling (for pleasure),
  • That we may play together in the meadows? In (making) this request we are trustworthy and beneficent”—
  • Did not he (Jacob) say (to them), “I know this, that (the thought of) his being removed from me is kindling grief and sickness in my heart; 2755