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  • Oh, happy the eye that is weeping for His sake! Oh, fortunate the heart that is seared for His sake!
  • The end of every weeping is laughter at last; the man who foresees the end is a blessed servant (of God).
  • Wherever is flowing water, there is greenery: wherever are running tears, (the Divine) mercy is shown. 820
  • Be moaning and moist-eyed like the water-wheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul.
  • If you desire tears, have mercy on one who sheds tears; if you desire mercy, show mercy to the weak.
  • How the fire reproached the Jewish king.
  • The king turned his face to the fire, saying, “O fierce-tempered one, where is thy world-consuming natural disposition?
  • How art thou not burning? What has become of thy specific property? Or has thy intention changed because of our fortune?
  • Thou hast no pity (even) on the fire-worshipper: how (then) has he been saved who does not worship thee? 825
  • Never, O fire, art thou patient: how burnest thou not? What is it? Hast thou not the power?
  • Is this a spell, I wonder, that binds the eye or the mind? How does such a lofty flame not burn?
  • Has some one bewitched thee? Or is it magic, or is thy unnatural behaviour from our fortune?”
  • The fire said: “I am the same, O idolator: come in, that thou mayst feel my heat.
  • My nature and element have not changed: I am the sword of God and by (His) leave I cut. 830
  • The Turcoman dogs fawn at the tent-door before the guest,
  • But if any one having the face of a stranger pass by the tent, he will see the dogs rushing at him like lions.
  • I am not less than a dog in devotion, nor is God less than a Turcoman in life (living power).”
  • If the fire of your nature make you suffer pain, it burns by command of the Lord of religion;
  • If the fire of your nature give you joy, (that is because) the Lord of the Judgment puts joy therein. 835
  • When you feel pain, ask pardon of God: pain, by command of the Creator, is efficacious.
  • When He pleases, pain itself becomes joy; bondage itself becomes freedom.
  • Air and earth and water and fire are (His) slaves: with you and me they are dead, but with God they are alive.
  • Before God, fire is always standing (ready to do His behest), writhing continually day and night, like a lover.
  • If you strike stone on iron, it (the fire) leaps out: ’tis by God's command that it puts forth its foot. 840
  • Do not strike together the iron and stone of injustice, for these two generate like man and woman.
  • The stone and the iron are indeed causes, but look higher, O good man!