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1874-1898

  • The fire that first darts from (the impact of) the steel puts forth its foot very feebly.
  • Cotton is its nurse at first, but in the end it carries its flames up to the aether. 1875
  • At first, man is in bondage to sleep and food; ultimately he is higher than the angels.
  • Under the protection of cotton and sulphur matches his flame and light rises above Suhá.
  • He illuminates the dark world: he tears the iron fetter (in pieces) with a needle.
  • Though the fire too is connected with the body, is ‘it not derived from the spirit and the spiritual?
  • The body hath no share in that glory: the body is as a drop of water in comparison with the sea of the spirit. 1880
  • The days of the body are increased by the spirit: mark what becomes of the body when the spirit goes (from it).
  • The range of thy body is an ell or two, no more: thy spirit is a maker of swift flights to heaven.
  • In the spirit’s imagination, O prince, ‘tis (but) half a step to Baghdad and Samarcand.
  • The fat (white) of thine eye is two dirhems in weight: the light of its spirit (reaches) to the lofty region of the sky.
  • The light sees in dream without this eye: without this light what would the eye be but ruined? 1885
  • The spirit is unconcerned with the beard and moustache of the body, but without the spirit the body is a carcase and vile.
  • Such is the magnificence of the animal spirit: advance farther, behold the human spirit.
  • Pass beyond Man and (logical) disputation unto the shore of the sea of the spirit of Gabriel.
  • After that, the, spirit of Ahmad (Mohammed) will bite thy lip (kiss thee lovingly), and Gabriel will creep back in fear of thee,
  • And will say, “If I come one bow’s length towards thee, I shall be instantly consumed.” 1890
  • How the slave was indignant because no reply to his letter arrived from the king.
  • Truly this desert hath no head or foot (top or bottom). That youth, (being) without a reply to his letter, is aggrieved
  • And says, “Oh, ‘tis a wonder. How did the king give me no reply? Or (perchance) the carrier of the letter behaved treacherously because of the torment (of envy),
  • And concealed the letter and did not show it to the king; for he was a hypocrite and (like) a piece of water beneath straw.
  • I will write another letter by way of test and seek another accomplished messenger.”
  • That heedless man ignorantly puts the blame on the Amir and the steward and the letter-carrier. 1895
  • Never does he go round about (inspect) himself and say, “I have acted perversely, like the idolater in (turning away from’ the true) religion.”
  • How the wind blew perversely against Solomon, on whom be peace, because of his lapse.
  • The wind moved perversely against Solomon's throne. Then Solomon said, “O wind, do not creep (along) perversely.”
  • The wind too said, “Do not move perversely (act wrongfully), O Solomon; and if thou move perversely, be not angry at my perverseness.