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951-975

  • Conjugal intercourse was the accident; it passed away, and the substance, (which is) the child, was produced from us.
  • The mating of horse or camel is the accident; the object is the birth of the colt, (which is) the substance.
  • Similarly, the planting of the garden is the accident; the produce (of the garden) became the substance: take ( it and) behold the object!
  • Regard, also, the practice of alchemy as the accident; if a substance is produced by that alchemy, bring (it into view).
  • Burnishing is the accident, O prince; from this accident is born the substance, purity. 955
  • Do not say, then, ‘I have done deeds’; show the income (fruit) of those accidents, do not evade (my request).
  • This attribution of qualities is (only) an accident. Be silent: do not kill for sacrifice the goat's shadow!”
  • The slave said, “O King, the mind cannot but despair if you say that accidents are not carried over.
  • O King, there is nothing but despair for the servant (of God), if the accident that has gone is not coming back.
  • If there were no carrying over and resurrection of accidents, action would be vain and words (mere) babble. 960
  • These accidents are carried over in another guise: the resurrection of everything mortal is another (mode of) existence.
  • The carrying over of everything is just as befits it: what befits the herd is its drover.
  • At the time of the Resurrection every accident has a (particular) form, and the form of every accident has a turn (of appearing before God).
  • Look on thyself. Wert not thou an accident—the movement of copulation, and copulation with a purpose?
  • Look on houses and edifices: they were as tales in the (mind of) the architect. 965
  • Such-and-such a house, which seemed to us beautiful, of which the hall, roof, and door were well-proportioned—
  • (’Twas) the accident (design) and ideas (proceeding) from the architect (that) brought the tools (into existence) and the pillars (which come) from the forests.
  • What but some fancy and accident and idea is the origin and source of every handicraft?
  • Look disinterestedly on all the (various) parts of the world: they are not the result of (anything) except accident.
  • The beginning, which is thought, comes to an end in action; know that in such wise was the construction of the world in eternity. 970
  • The fruits are first in the mind's thought, (but only) at the last do they become manifest actually:
  • When you have done work (and) planted the tree—at the end (when the fruit appears) you read the first words.
  • Although its boughs, leaves, and roots are first, (yet) all those are sent for the sake of the fruit.
  • Hence that hidden Thought which was the brain (core) of those (nine) heavens was in the end the lord of lawlák.
  • This discussion and talk are (involve) the carrying over of accidents; this lion and jackal are (examples of) the carrying over of accidents. 975