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  • What room have I for quarrelling with the good or the bad? —for this heart of mine is recoiling (even) from acts of peace.
  • If thou keep silence, (’tis well), and if not, I will so do that at this very moment I will leave my house and home.”
  • How the wife paid regard to her husband and begged God to forgive her for what she had said.
  • When the wife saw that he was fierce and unmanageable, she began to weep: tears in sooth are a woman's lure.
  • She said, “When did I imagine such (words) from thee? I hoped of thee something different.” 2395
  • The wife approached by the way of self-naughting (self-abasement). “I am thy dust,” said she, “not (worthy to be) thy lady-wife.
  • Body and soul and all I am is thine: the entire authority and command belongs to thee.
  • If because of poverty my heart has lost patience, it is not for my own sake, but for thine.
  • Thou hast been my remedy in afflictions: I am unwilling that thou shouldst be penniless.
  • By thy soul, this is not for my own sake: this wailing and moaning of mine is on account of thee. 2400
  • (I swear) by God that at every moment my self would fain die for thy self before thee.
  • Would that thy soul, to which my soul is devoted, were aware of my soul's inmost thoughts!
  • Inasmuch as thou hast such (an ill) opinion of me, I am grown weary both of soul and of body.
  • I cast earth on (renounce) silver and gold, since thou behavest thus to me, O comfort of my soul.
  • Thou who dwellest in my soul and heart, wilt thou declare thyself to be quit of me for this (small) amount (of offence)? 2405
  • Be quit (then)! for thou hast the power, (but) oh, my soul pleads against thy making this declaration.
  • Remember the time when I was (beautiful) as the idol, and thou (adoring) as the idolater.
  • Thy slave has kindled her heart (in eagerness) to comply with thee: whatever thou callest ‘cooked,’ she says it is ‘burnt.’
  • Whatever thou mayst cook me with, I am thy spinach: whether (thou art) sour broth (to me) or sweet, thou art worthy (of my affection).
  • I uttered infidelity (blasphemy): lo, I have returned to the true faith, I am come (to submit) with all my soul to thy command. 2410
  • I did not know thy kingly nature, I rudely urged my ass (intruded) before thee.
  • Since I have made (for myself) a lamp of thy forgiveness, I repent, I cast away (abandon) opposition.
  • I am laying before thee sword and winding-sheet: I am bending my neck towards thee: smite!
  • Thou art talking of bitter separation (from me): do whatever thou wilt, but do not this.
  • Thy conscience within thee is a pleader on my behalf, it is a perpetual intercessor with thee in my absence. 2415
  • What pleads within thee for me is thy (noble) nature: from reliance on it my heart sought (to) sin (against thee).