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  • (For) then he will forget the terror which he felt on seeing (thee): this will not be alien to his asininity.
  • But when I bring him, do not thou rush (at him), lest thou lose him again by overhaste.”
  • “Yes,” replied the lion; “I have found by experience that I am very ill and that my body has become shaky.
  • Until the ass comes quite near to me, I will not move, I will (apparently) be sound asleep.” 2580
  • (Thereupon) the fox departed, saying, “O king, (offer) a prayer that a (great) heedlessness may muffle his reason.
  • The ass has made vows of repentance to the Creator (and resolved) that he will not be duped by any ne’er-do-well.
  • We by cunning will cause his vows to collapse, (for) we are the enemy of reason and of the splendid covenant (with God).
  • The ass's head is a ball for our children: his thought is a plaything for our guile.”
  • The reason that belongs to (is affected by) the revolution of Saturn hath no position (of honour) in the sight of Universal Reason. 2585
  • It is made knowing by Mercury and Saturn; we (organs of Universal Reason) by the bounty of the gracious Creator.
  • The twisted script of our sign-manual is He taught Man: our aims are (expressed in the words) the knowledge is with God.
  • We are (the object of) the nurture of that resplendent Sun: on that account we are crying, “(Glory to) my Lord the Supreme!”
  • (The fox said), “If he (the ass) possesses experience, nevertheless a hundred experiences will be shattered by this deceitful palaver (of mine).
  • Maybe that weak-natured one will break his (vow of) repentance, and the bad luck of his breaking it will overtake him.” 2590
  • Explaining that the violation of a covenant and (vow of) repentance is the cause of affliction; nay, it is the cause of metamorphosis, as in the case of the “Fellows of the Sabbath” and in the case of the “Fellows (who disbelieved in the miracle) of the Table of Jesus,” for (God hath said), “And He turned them into apes and swine.” And in this community there is (only) metamorphosis of the spirit, but at the Resurrection the form of the spirit will be given to the body.
  • To violate a pact and break vows of repentance becomes the cause of accursedness in the end.
  • The violation of vows of repentance by the “Fellows of the Sabbath” became the cause of their metamorphosis and destruction and abomination.
  • Therefore God turned those people into apes, since they rebelliously broke their covenant with God.
  • In this community there has never been metamorphosis of the body, but there is metamorphosis of the spirit, O man endowed with perception.
  • When his spirit becomes the ape-spirit, his clay (body) is debased by the ape-spirit. 2595
  • How should the ass be debased by his (bodily) form, if his spirit had possessed the virtue (that is derived) from (rational) experience?
  • The dog of the Companions (of the Cave) had a goodly character: was he any the worse on account of his (bodily) form?
  • The “Fellows of the Sabbath” suffered outward metamorphosis, in order that the people might behold outwardly their ignominious fall.
  • Through breaking (vows of) repentance a hundred thousand others have become hogs and asses inwardly.
  • How the fox approached the runaway ass a second time in order to beguile him once more.
  • Then the fox came quickly towards the ass: the ass said, “One must beware of a friend like you. 2600
  • Ignoble creature, what did I do to you that you brought me into the presence of a dragon?