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  • So that you may be secure from satiety and weariness: on this account the Almighty said, “God shall belong to him:
  • I shall be his eye and hand and heart,” to the end that His fortunate one should escape from adversities.
  • Whatsoever is loathed is a lover and friend when it becomes thy guide towards thy beloved. 80
  • Story of the preacher who at the beginning of every exhortation used to pray for the unjust and hard-hearted and irreligious.
  • A certain preacher, whenever he mounted the pulpit, would begin to pray for the highway robbers (who plunder and maltreat the righteous).
  • He would lift up his hand, (crying), “O Lord, let mercy fall upon evil men and corrupters and insolent transgressors,
  • Upon all who make a mock of the good people, upon all whose hearts are unbelieving and those who dwell in the Christian monastery.”
  • He would not pray for the pure; he would pray for none but the wicked.
  • They said to him, “This is unknown (extraordinary): ’tis no generosity to pray for the people of unrighteousness.” 85
  • He replied, “I have seen (experienced) goodness from these folk: for this reason I have chosen to pray for them.
  • They wrought so much wickedness and injustice and oppression that they cast (drove) me forth from evil into good.
  • Whenever I turned my face towards this world, I suffered blows and beating from them,
  • And took refuge from the blows Yonder: the wolves were always bringing me back into the (right) Way.
  • Inasmuch as they contrived the means of my (spiritual) welfare, it behoves me to pray for them, O intelligent one.” 90
  • The servant (of God) complains to God of pain and smart: he makes a hundred complaints of his pain.
  • God says, “After all, grief and pain have made thee humbly entreating and righteous.
  • Make this complaint of the bounty that befalls thee and removes thee far from My door and makes thee an outcast.”
  • In reality every foe (of yours) is your medicine: he is an elixir and beneficial and one that seeks to win your heart;
  • For you flee away from him into solitude and would fain implore help of God's grace. 95
  • Your friends are really enemies, for they make you far from the (Divine) Presence and occupied (with them).
  • There is an animal whose name is ushghur (porcupine): it is (made) stout and big by blows of the stick.
  • The more you cudgel it, the more it thrives: it grows fat on blows of the stick.
  • Assuredly the true believer's soul is a porcupine, for it is (made) stout and fat by the blows of tribulation.
  • For this reason the tribulation and abasement (laid) upon the prophets is greater than (that laid upon) all the (other) creatures in the world, 100
  • So that their souls became stouter than (all other) souls; for no other class of people suffered that affliction.
  • The hide is afflicted by the medicine (tan-liquor), (but) it becomes sweet like Tá’if leather;