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  • Arise, O (thou who resemblest) Nimrod, and seek wings from (holy) personages: thou wilt not get any ladder from these vultures.

  • The vulture is the particular (discursive) reason, O poor (-spirited) one: its wings are connected with the eating of carrion;

  • (But) the reason of the Abdál (exalted saints) is like the wings of Gabriel: it soars, mile by mile, up to the shade of the lote-tree (in Paradise).

  • (It says), “I am a royal falcon, I am fair and auspicious, I have nothing to do with carrion: I am not a vulture. 4140

  • Abandon the vulture, for I will be thy helper: a wing of mine is better for thee than a hundred vultures.”

  • How long wilt thou gallop blindly? For (learning) a trade and business one needs a master.

  • Do not disgrace thyself in the capital of China: seek a sage and do not separate thyself from him.

  • Hark, whatever the Plato of the age bids thee do, give up thy self-will and act in accordance with that (counsel).

  • All (who dwell) in China are saying in zeal for (the glory of) their King, “He begetteth not. 4145

  • Never in sooth has our King begotten a child; nay, he has not allowed a woman to approach him.”

  • When any king says of him something of this sort, he weds his (traducer's) neck to the cutting scimitar.

  • The King says (to such an one), “Since thou hast spoken these words, either prove that I have a wife and family—

  • And if thou prove that I have a daughter, thou art safe from my keen sword—

  • Or else without any doubt I will cut thy throat: I will tear the mantle (thy body) off the Súfí, thy spirit. 4150

  • Thou wilt never save thy head from the sword, O thou that hast spoken vain and lying words!

  • O thou that hast foolishly spoken an untruth, behold a moat full of severed heads!—

  • A moat filled from its bottom to its mouth with heads severed on account of this enormity.

  • All have been sacrificed to this (false) assertion: they have beheaded themselves with this assertion.

  • Beware! Regard this with a heedful eye: do not conceive or utter such an assertion!” 4155

  • (The two princes said), “Thou wilt make our lives bitter to us: who is inducing thee to (act like) this, O brother?

  • If one who is ignorant should journey a hundred years in blindness, that is not reckoned as a journey.

  • Do not go into battle unarmed, do not go recklessly into destruction.”

  • They said all this (to him), but the impatient (prince) replied, “These words (of warning) inspire me with repugnance.

  • My bosom is full of fire, like a brazier: the crop is ripe, ’tis time for the sickle. 4160

  • There was a (great) fortitude in my breast, (but) now it is no more: Love has set fire to the dwelling-place of fortitude.