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  • 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
  • Indeed, all created beings were accidents (once), so that in this sense (the text) was revealed—Did there not come…?
  • Whence arise these accidents? From ideas. And whence arise these ideas? From thoughts.
  • This world is one thought (emanating) from the Universal Intellect: the Intellect is like a king, and the ideas (are his) envoys.
  • The first world is the world of probation; the second world is the (world of) recompense for this and that.
  • Thy servant, O King, commits a sin: that accident becomes (a substance, namely) chains and prison. 980
  • When thy slave performed goodly service, did not that accident become a robe of honour in the battle (between the flesh and the spirit)?