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2380-2404

  • Crow and owl and falcon come (as captives) into the (same) cage: the holy and the irreligious become mates in prison. 2380

  • At night Easterners and Westerners and Transoxanians make their abode in the same caravanseray.

  • Small and great (folk) remain together for days in the caravanseray because of frost and snow.

  • As soon as the road is opened and the obstacle removed, they separate and every one goes in a (different) direction.

  • When sovereign Reason breaks the cage, all the birds fly away, each one to a (different) quarter.

  • Before this (deliverance) each one, full of longing and lament, spreads its wings towards its destination, in desire for its mate. 2385

  • At every moment it spreads its wings with tears and sighs, but it has no room or way to fly.

  • (As soon as) way is made, each one flies like the wind towards that in remembrance of which it spread its wings.

  • Its way, when it gains the opportunity, is towards the region whither its tears and sighs were (directed).

  • Consider your own body: from what places were these corporeal parts (elements and faculties) collected in the body—

  • Watery and earthen and airy and fiery, celestial and terrestrial, (some) of Rúm and (some) of Kash. 2390

  • In this (bodily) caravanseray one and all, from fear of the snow, have closed their eyes to the hope of returning (to their final destination).

  • The various snows are (symbolise) the congelation of every inanimate thing in the winter of farness from that Sun of justice.

  • (But) when the heat of the angry Sun flames (forth), the mountain becomes now (like) sand and now (like) wool.

  • The gross inanimate things dissolve, like the dissolution of the body at the hour of the spirit's departure.

  • When these three fellow-travellers arrived at a certain hostelry, a man of fortune brought them (some) halwá (sweetmeat) as a gift. 2395

  • A benefactor brought to the three strangers (some) halwá from the kitchen of Lo, I am near.

  • One who had expectation of (earning) the (Divine) reward brought (to them) warm bread and a dish of halwá made with honey.

  • Intelligence and culture are characteristic of townsmen; hospitality and entertainment (of guests) are characteristic of tent-dwellers.

  • The Merciful (God) has implanted hospitality to strangers and entertainment (of guests) in the villagers (countryfolk).

  • Every day in the villages (countryside) there is a new guest who has none to help him except God. 2400

  • Every night in the villages (countryside) are new-comers who have no refuge there save God.

  • The two aliens (the Jew and the Christian) were surfeited with food and suffering from indigestion; the true believer, as it happened, was fasting (all) day.

  • At the (time of) the evening prayer, when the halwá arrived, the true believer was reduced to extreme hunger.

  • The two (others) said, “We have eaten our fill: let us put it away to-night and eat it to-morrow.