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  • Whether I am (stout as) Bilál or (thin as) the new moon (hilál), I am running on and following the course of Thy sun.
  • What has the moon to do with stoutness and thinness? She runs at the heels of the sun, like a shadow. 905
  • Any one who offers to make a settlement with (the Divine) destiny is mocking at his own moustache.
  • A straw in the face of the wind, and then (the idea of) a settlement! A Resurrection (going on), and then the resolve to act (independently)!
  • In the hand of Love I am like a cat in a bag, now lifted high and now flung low by Love.
  • He is whirling me round His head: I have no rest either below or aloft.
  • The lovers (of God) have fallen into a fierce torrent: they have set their hearts on (resigned themselves to) the ordinance of Love. 910
  • (They are) like the millstone turning, day and night, in (continual) revolution and moaning incessantly.
  • Its turning is evidence for those who seek the River, lest any one should say that the River is motionless.
  • If thou seest not the hidden River, see the (perpetual) turning of the celestial water-wheel.