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  • He enjoyed this tender care (cemented) by a hundred ties, for I fostered him (Myself) without an intermediary.
  • His thanks, O honoured servant, were this, that he became Nimrod and the burner of Khalíl (Abraham)”—
  • Just as this prince, in return for the favours of the King, showed arrogance and sought to aggrandise himself,
  • Saying, “Why should I become the follower of another when I possess empire and new (splendid) fortune?” 4845
  • (Hence) the King's favours, of which the tale has been told above, were veiled from his heart (in oblivion) by his outrageous insolence—
  • “Even so did Nimrod ignorantly and blindly trample underfoot those favours (of Mine).
  • Now he has become an infidel and is waylaying (the faithful): he is acting with arrogance and pretending to Divinity.
  • By means of three vultures he has gone (flown) towards august Heaven in order to battle with Me,
  • And has killed a hundred thousand innocent children (in the hope) that he may find Abraham; 4850
  • For the astrologers declared that, according to the forecast for the year, there would be born an adversary to combat him,