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  • (The princes said), “We have transgressed the command of our King, we have rebelled against the favours of our father.
  • We have lightly esteemed the King's word and those incomparable favours.
  • Lo, we all are fallen into the moat, killed and wounded by affliction without combat. 3780
  • We relied on our own intelligence and wisdom, so that this tribulation has come to pass.
  • We regarded ourselves as being without disease and emancipated (from fear of death), just as one suffering from phthisis regards himself.
  • Now, after we have been made prisoners and a prey, the hidden malady has become apparent.”
  • The shadow (protection) of the (spiritual) Guide is better than praising God (by one's self): a single (feeling of) contentment is better than a hundred viands and trays (of food).
  • A seeing eye is better than three hundred (blind men's) staves: the eye knows (can distinguish) pearls from pebbles. 3785
  • (Moved) by sorrows (pains of love) they began to make inquiry, saying, “Who in the world, we wonder, is she of whom this is the portrait?”
  • After much inquiry in (the course of their) travel, a Shaykh endowed with insight disclosed the mystery,