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  • (Thereupon) a person said, “You have used a good formula, but you have missed the (proper) hole for the prayer.
  • Since this prayer was the formula applicable to the nose, why have you applied the nose-formula to the arse?
  • One free (from sensuality) gets the odour of Paradise from his nose: how should the odour of Paradise come from the rump?”
  • O thou who hast brought humility into the presence of fools, and O thou who hast brought pride into the presence of (spiritual) kings, 2225
  • The pride shown to the base is goodly and fitting. Take heed, do not behave in the reverse manner: the reverse thereof is (the cause of) thy bondage.
  • The rose grew for the sake of the nostrils: sweet scent is the stipend of the nose, O churl.
  • The scent of the rose is for organs of smell, O bold man: this hole below is not the place for that scent.
  • How should the scent of Paradise come to thee from this place? If thou requirest the (sweet) scent, seek it from its (proper) place.
  • Likewise, “love of country” is right, (but) first, O master, know (what really is) thy country. 2230
  • That sagacious fish said, “I will journey, I will withdraw my heart from their advice and counsel.”
  • ’Tis no time for counsel. Hark, journey! Like ‘Alí, sigh (the secret) into the well.
  • Very seldom is there found a fit confidant for that sigh: go by night and let thy movement be hidden, like (that of) the night-patrol.
  • Set out from this lake towards the sea: seek the sea and take leave of this whirlpool.
  • That wary (fish) made its breast o afoot (swam away) and was going from its perilous abode to the sea of light, 2235
  • Like the deer of which a dog is in pursuit and which keeps running so long as there is a single nerve in its body.
  • Hare’s sleep (heedlessness) with the dog in pursuit is a sin: how indeed is sleep (dwelling) in the eye of him who hath fear?
  • That fish departed and took the way to the sea: it took the far way and the vast expanse.
  • It suffered many afflictions, and in the end it went after all towards safety and welfare.
  • It cast itself into the deep Sea whose bound no eye can reach. 2240
  • So when the fishermen brought their net (to the lake), the half-intelligent (fish) was bitterly grieved thereat.
  • And said, “Alas, I have lost the opportunity: how did not I accompany that guide?
  • He went off suddenly, but seeing that he went I ought to have gone after him in hot haste.”
  • ‘Tis wrong to regret the past: what is gone will not come back: to remember it is of no avail.
  • Story of the captive bird which gave the (following) injunctions: do not feel sorrow for what is past, think about taking precaution for the present (need), and do not spend time in repenting.
  • A certain man caught a bird by guile and trap: the bird said to him, “O noble sire, 2245
  • Thou hast eaten many oxen and sheep, thou hast sacrificed many camels;