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  • The king made such a (lavish) wedding-feast for him that sugared julep was (placed) before the dogs.
  • The old witch died of vexation and gave up her hideous face and (foul) nature to Málik.
  • The prince was left in amazement: (he said to himself), “How did she rob me of understanding and insight?” 3180
  • He beheld a newly wedded bride like the beauteous moon, who was (as a brigand) infesting the road of beauty (and occupying it) against (all) the (other) fair ones.
  • He became senseless and fell on his face: for three days the heart (consciousness) vanished from his body.
  • Three days and nights he became unconscious of himself, so that the people were (sorely) perturbed by his swoon.
  • By means of rose-water and (other) remedies he came to himself (again): little by little, good and evil were apprehended by him (once more).
  • After a year the king said to him jokingly in conversation, “O son, bethink thee of that old friend (of thine), 3185
  • Bethink thee of that bedfellow and that bed: do not be so faithless and harsh!”
  • “Go to!” said he; “I have found the abode of joy, I am delivered from the pit of the abode of delusion.”
  • ’Tis even so: when the true believer has found the way towards the Light of God, he averts his face from the darkness (of this world).
  • Explaining that the prince is Man, the vicegerent of God, and that his father is Adam, the chosen one, the vicegerent of God, he to whom the angels bowed in worship; and that the old hag of Kábul is the World which separated Man from his Father by sorcery, while the prophets and saints are (like) the physician who applied the remedy.
  • O brother, know that thou art the prince born anew in the old world.
  • The witch of Kábul is this World which made men captive to colour and perfume. 3190
  • Since she hath cast thee into this polluted stream, continually recite and utter (the words), Say, I take refuge.
  • In order that thou mayst be delivered from this witchery and this distress, beg of the Lord of the daybreak that thou mayst say “I take refuge.”
  • The Prophet called this world of thine an enchantress because through her spells she lodged mankind in the pit.
  • Beware! The stinking hag hath hot (potent) spells: her hot breath hath made kings captive.
  • She is the witches who blow (on knots) within (thy) breast: she is the (means of) maintaining the knots of sorcery. 3195
  • The sorceress, (who is) the World, is a mightily cunning woman: ’tis not in the power of the vulgar to undo her sorcery;
  • And if (men's) understandings could loose her knot, how should God have sent the prophets?
  • Hark, seek one whose breath is pure, a looser of knots, one who knows the mystery of God doeth whatso He willeth.
  • She (the World) hath imprisoned thee, like a fish, in her net: the prince remained (there) one year, and thou sixty.
  • From (being enmeshed in) her net thou art in tribulation sixty years: neither art thou happy nor (dost thou walk) in the way of the Sunna. 3200
  • Thou art a miserable unrighteous man: neither is thy worldly life good (happy) nor art thou delivered from guilt and sins.
  • Her (the World's) breathing hath made these knots tight: seek, then, the breathing of the unique Creator,