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  • (Whether it be syrup) of carrots or apples or quinces or walnuts, you will taste in it the delicious flavour of grape-juice.
  • When your knowledge is steeped in the light (of faith), then the contumacious folk derive light from your knowledge.
  • Whatsoever you say, too, will be luminous, for the sky never rains aught but pure (water).
  • Become (like) the sky, become (like) the cloud and shed rain: the spout rains (too), (but) it is not at work (productively). 2490
  • The water in the spout is borrowed; the water in the cloud and in the sea is original.
  • Your thought and cogitation resemble the spout; inspiration and revelation are (like) the cloud and the sky.
  • The rain-water produces a many-coloured garden; the spout causes your neighbour to quarrel (with you).
  • The ass disputed twice or thrice with the fox, (but) since he was (only) an imitator he was beguiled by him.
  • He had not the glorious power of perception possessed by a (true) seer: the fox's palaver brought upon him (a stroke of) apoplexy. 2495
  • Greedy desire to eat and drink made him so despicable that he submitted to him (the fox) notwithstanding five hundred arguments (to the contrary).
  • Fabula cinaedi cui paedicator tempore paedicandi “Quamobrem,” inquit, “hic pugio est?” Respondit: “Ut, siquis mihi injuriam facere cogitaverit, ventrem ejus diffindam.” Paedicator super eo ultro citroque se movebat et aiebat, “Deo gloria quod ego injuriam tibi facere non cogito.” “My tent (verse) is not a tent, it is a continent; my jest is not a jest, it is a lesson.” Verily, God is not ashamed to set forth as a parable a gnat or what exceeds it, i.e. “what exceeds it in respect of the corruption of (men's) souls by disbelief”; (for the infidels ask), “What is it that Allah means by using this as a parable?” and then He answers (them), “I mean this: He lets many be led astray thereby and He lets many be guided aright thereby.” Every temptation is like a pair of scales: many come off with honour and many with disgrace; and if you were to meditate on it (this parable) a little, you would feel many of its excellent effects. [The story of the sodomite and the sodomizer’s asking him during the occasion of sodomy, “What is this dagger (of yours) for?” He (the sodomite) answered, “So that, (regarding) anyone who thinks evil (bears evil desires) toward me, I may rip (open) his belly.” The sodomizer was coming and going (moving back and forth in the act of sodomy) and was saying, “God be praised, since I am not thinking evil toward you.” “My tent ....]
  • Juvenem imberbem paedicator quidam domum duxit, capite deorsum verso stravit et in eum trusit. [A sodomizer brought a beardless youth (catamite) into a house, threw him head-downwards, and pressed into him (in the act of sodomy).]
  • The accursed wretch saw a dagger on his waist, so he said to him, “What is this on your waist?”
  • He replied, “’Tis in order that, if any evil-minded person should think of committing evil against me, I may rip his belly.”
  • The lútí said, “God be praised that I have not thought of plotting evil against you.” 2500
  • When there is no manliness, of what use are daggers? When there is no heart (courage), the helmet avails not.
  • You may have (the sword) Dhu ’l-faqár as a heritage from ‘Alí, (but) have you the (stout) arm of the Lion of God? (If so), produce it!
  • Though you may remember a (life-giving) incantation derived from the Messiah, where (in you) are the lips and teeth of Jesus, O abominable man?
  • You may build a ship with money collected (from your friends) or freely given, (but) where is a captain of the ship like Noah?
  • I grant you have (formally) broken the idol, like Abraham, (but) what of devoting the idol, (which is) your body, to the fire (of self-mortification)? 2505
  • If you have the proof (that you are a true saint), put it into practice: by means of that (practice) make your wooden sword (sharp) as Dhu ’l-faqár.
  • The proof that hinders you from the practice (of saintly works) is (the cause of your incurring) the vengeance of the (Divine) Maker.
  • You have emboldened those who are afraid of (travelling on) the Way, (but) underneath (inwardly) you are more tremulous (infirm) than all (the rest).
  • You lecture to them all on trust in God, (while) you are slitting the vein of the gnat in the air.
  • O pathice, qui exercitum praecessisti, barbae tuae mendaciam penis tuus testatur. [O impotent sodomite, (making a false show of) going ahead of the army, your penis (is) witness to the falsehood of your beard (your false claim of manhood).] 2510
  • When the heart is filled with unmanliness, the beard and moustache are a cause of laughter.