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  • Life depends on dying (to self) and on suffering tribulation: the Water of Life is in the (Land of) Darkness. 4830
  • Resuming the Story of the most High God's bringing up Nimrod in his childhood without the intervention of mother and nurse.
  • “In short, that garden, like the (spiritual) orchard of gnostics, was secure from the simoom and the sarsar wind.
  • A leopardess (there) had newly given birth to cubs: I bade her give milk to him (Nimrod), and she obeyed.
  • So she gave him milk and tended him till he grew up and became strong and valiant.
  • When he was weaned, I told the peris (Jinn) to teach him how to discourse and deal justice.
  • I gave him nourishment from that garden: how should (the description of) My artfulness be contained in words. 4835
  • I bestowed on Job a father's love in order that he might entertain the worms hospitably and do them no harm.
  • I bestowed on the worms love for him like that of children for their father. Look, here is (a token of My) Power, here is (a token of My) Hand!
  • I have taught mothers to care (for their children): how (infinite) must be the kindness that I have kindled!
  • (Unto him) I showed a hundred favours and (knit) a hundred ties (of obligation), that he might experience My kindness directly,
  • And not be distracted by any secondary cause, to the end that every call for help should be made by him to Me, 4840
  • Or at least that he should have no excuse (for turning elsewhere) and no occasion to complain of any evil companion.
  • He enjoyed this tender care (cemented) by a hundred ties, for I fostered him (Myself) without an intermediary.
  • His thanks, O honoured servant, were this, that he became Nimrod and the burner of Khalíl (Abraham)”—
  • Just as this prince, in return for the favours of the King, showed arrogance and sought to aggrandise himself,
  • Saying, “Why should I become the follower of another when I possess empire and new (splendid) fortune?” 4845
  • (Hence) the King's favours, of which the tale has been told above, were veiled from his heart (in oblivion) by his outrageous insolence—
  • “Even so did Nimrod ignorantly and blindly trample underfoot those favours (of Mine).
  • Now he has become an infidel and is waylaying (the faithful): he is acting with arrogance and pretending to Divinity.
  • By means of three vultures he has gone (flown) towards august Heaven in order to battle with Me,
  • And has killed a hundred thousand innocent children (in the hope) that he may find Abraham; 4850
  • For the astrologers declared that, according to the forecast for the year, there would be born an adversary to combat him,
  • (And said), ‘Hark, take precautions to repel that enemy’; (so) in his craziness he would fain kill every child that was born.
  • (But), to confound him, the inspired child was saved; the blood of (all) the others remained (as a burden of guilt) upon his neck.
  • Oh, ’tis wonderful! Did he obtain that empire from his father so that (in consequence) he was befooled by the darkness of noble lineage?