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  • When I parted the child from its mother, Thou thyself knowest how bitter ’twas to me. 4805
  • Often have I seen sighs (heaved) in great mournings, (but) the bitter grief of that child has never gone from my recollection.”
  • God said, “Of My grace I bade the waves cast that child into a forest—
  • A forest abounding in lilies and sweet basils and roses, full of trees laden with fruit good to eat,
  • And fountains of sweet limpid water. I fostered the child with a hundred endearments.
  • Myriads of melodious singing-birds poured forth a hundred songs in that garden. 4810
  • I made for him a couch of wild-rose leaves; I made him secure from the shock of afflictions.
  • I told the sun not to scorch him; I told the wind to blow on him gently;
  • I told the clouds not to rain upon him; I told the lightning not to dart at him.
  • I said, ‘O December, do not cut off the mild weather from this orchard; O November, do not let thy fist fall on this garden.’”
  • The miracles of Shaybán Rá‘í, may God sanctify his venerable spirit!