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  • Hark, do not bar the road of patience and deliberation: be patient, reflect for a few days.
  • In (the course of) deliberation thou wilt hit upon a certainty, (and then) thou wilt chastise me with a sure conviction (of knowing the truth).”
  • Why, indeed, (be one who) walks falling (on his face) in wayfaring, when it behoves him to walk in an upright posture? 2610
  • Take counsel with the company of the righteous: note the (Divine) command (given) to the Prophet, “Consult them.”
  • (The words) their affair is (a matter for) consultation are to this (the same) purpose, for owing to consultation mistakes and errors occur less (frequently).
  • These (human) intellects are luminous like lamps: twenty lamps are brighter than one.
  • There may happen to be amongst them a lamp that has become aflame with the light of Heaven,
  • (For) the jealousy of God has produced a veil (of concealment) and has mingled the low and the lofty together. 2615
  • He hath said, “Travel”: always be seeking in the world and trying your fortune and (destined) lot.
  • In (all) assembly-places always be seeking amidst the intellects such an intellect as is (found) in the Prophet,
  • For the only heritage from the Prophet is that (intellect) which perceives the unseen things before and behind (future and past).
  • Amidst the (inward) eyes, too, always be seeking that (inward) eye which this epitome has not the power to describe.
  • Hence the majestic (Prophet) has forbidden monkery and going to live as a hermit in the mountains, 2620
  • In order that this kind of meeting (with saints) should not be lost; for to be looked on by them is fortune and an elixir of immortality.
  • Amongst the righteous there is one (who is) the most righteous: on his diploma (is inscribed) by the Sultan's hand a sahh,
  • (Indicating) that the prayer (uttered by him) is (inseparably) linked with acceptance, (and that) the greatest of men and Jinn are not his peers.
  • (When) those who are sweet or sour (engage) in contention with him, in God's sight their argument is null,
  • For (God says), “As We have exalted him by (grace of) Ourselves, We have done away with (every) plea and argument (against him).” 2625
  • Since the Hand of God has made the Qibla manifest, henceforth deem searching to be disallowed.
  • Hark, avert your face and head from searching, now that the Destination and Dwelling-place has come into view.
  • If you forget this Qibla for one moment, you will become in thrall to every worthless qibla (object of desire).
  • When you show ingratitude to him that gives you discernment, the thought that recognises the Qibla will dart away from you.
  • If you desire benefit and (spiritual) wheat from this Barn, do not part, even for half an hour, from those who sympathise, 2630
  • For at the moment when you part from this helper you will be afflicted with an evil comrade
  • Story of the attachment between the mouse and the frog: how they tied their legs together with a long string, and how a raven carried off the mouse, and how the frog was suspended (in the air) and lamented and repented of having attached himself to an animal of a different species instead of sorting with one of his own kind.
  • As it happened, a mouse and a faithful frog had become friends on the bank of a river.