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  • The saints are (like) the Men of the Cave, O obstinate one: they are asleep (even) in rising up and turning to and fro.
  • He (God) is drawing them, without their taking trouble to act, without consciousness (on their part), to the right hand and to the left.
  • What is that right hand? Good deeds. What is that left hand? The affairs of the body.
  • These two (kinds of) actions proceed from the prophets, (while) they are unconscious of them both, like the echo: 3190
  • If the echo causes thee to hear good and evil, the mountain itself is unconscious of either.
  • How the guest said to Joseph, “I have brought thee the gift of a mirror, so that whenever thou lookest in it thou wilt see thine own fair face and remember me.”
  • Joseph said, “Come, produce the gift.” He (the guest), on account of shame (confusion) at this demand, sobbed aloud.
  • “How many a gift,” said he, “did I seek for thee! No (worthy) gift came into my sight.
  • How should I bring a grain (of gold) to the mine? How should I bring a drop (of water) to the (Sea of) ‘Umán?
  • I shall (only) bring cumin to Kirmán, if I bring my heart and soul (as a gift) to thee. 3195
  • There is no seed that is not in this barn, except thy beauty which hath no equal.
  • I deemed it fitting that I should bring to thee a mirror like the (inward) light of a (pure) breast,
  • That thou mayst behold thy beauteous face therein, O thou who, like the sun, art the candle of heaven.
  • I have brought thee a mirror, O light (of mine eyes), so that when thou seest thy face thou mayst think of me.”
  • He drew forth the mirror from beneath his arm: the fair one's business is with a mirror. 3200
  • What is the mirror of Being? Not-being. Bring not-being (as your gift), if you are not a fool.
  • Being can be seen (only) in not-being: the rich bestow (exhibit) generosity on the poor.
  • The clear mirror of bread is truly the hungry man; tinder, likewise, is the mirror of that (the stick or flint) from which fire is struck.
  • Not-being and defect, wherever they arise (appear), are the mirror which displays the excellence of all crafts.
  • When a garment is neat and well-stitched, how should it enable the tailor to exhibit his skill? 3205
  • Trunks of trees must be unhewn in order that the woodcutter may fashion the stem or the branches (and thus exercise his craft).
  • The doctor who sets broken bones goes to the place where the person with the fractured leg is.
  • How shall the excellence of the art of medicine be made manifest when there is no emaciated invalid?
  • How shall the (power of the) Elixir be shown if the vileness and baseness of coppers is not notorious?
  • Defects are the mirror of the quality of perfection, and that vileness is the mirror of power and glory, 3210
  • Because (every) contrary is certainly made evident by its contrary; because honey is perceived (to be sweet by contrast) with vinegar.