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  • Because his light is not homogeneous with the Fire: the seeker of the light is in reality the contrary of the Fire
  • It is related in the Hadíth that when the true believer prays to God for protection from Hell,
  • Hell also begs earnestly for protection from him, saying, “O God, keep me far from such-and-such a one!” 2715
  • ‘Tis the attracting power of homogeneity (that indicates one’s real nature): consider now with whom thou art congenial in respect of infidelity or true religion.
  • If thou art inclined towards Hámán, thou hast the nature of Hámán, and if thou art inclined towards Moses, thou art a glorifier of God.
  • And if thou art inclined and impelled towards both, thou art carnal soul and reason both mingled together.
  • Both (these) are at war: take heed, take heed, and strive that the spiritual realities may prevail over the (sensuous) forms.
  • In the world of war ‘tis joy enough that thou shouldst always, see defeat (inflicted) on the enemy. 2720
  • Finally that quarrelsome-looking (contumacious) man (Pharaoh) in his hardness (of heart) told Hámán, for the purpose of consultation.
  • He told (him) the promises pf the one (Moses) with whom God spoke, and made that misguided person his confidant.
  • How Pharaoh took counsel with ha vizier, Hámán, as to believing in Moses, on whom be peace.
  • He told Hamán when he saw him alone: Hámán sprang up and rent the bosom of his shirt.
  • That accursed one uttered loud cries’ and sobs and beat his turban and cap on the ground,
  • Saying, “How durst he say those vain words so impudently in the face of the king? 2725
  • Thou hast made the whole world subject (to thy sway); thou, (attended) by fortune, hast made thy estate (brilliant) as gold.
  • From all parts of the East and West sultans, without (raising); opposition, bring tribute to thee.
  • Kings are rubbing their lips joyfully on the dust of thy thresh old, O mighty emperor.
  • When the enemy’s horse sees our horse, it turns its face and flees without flogging’.
  • Hitherto thou hast been worshipped and adored by the (whole) world: (now) thou wilt become the meanest of slaves. 2730
  • To go into a thousand fires is better than this, that a lord should become the servant of a slave.
  • Nay, kill me first, O king of China, that mine eye may not be hold this (servility) in the king.
  • O emperor, behead me first, that mine eye may not behold this ignominy.
  • Truly never has there been—and never may there be!—such a thing as this, that the earth should become the sky, and the sky become the earth;
  • (That) our slaves should become our fellow-servants, (and that) our timorous ones should become those who (cruelly) wound our hearts; 2735
  • (That our) enemies (should be) bright-eyed and (our) friends blind: then (in that case) the rose-garden has become for us (like) the bottom of the tomb.”
  • Showing the falsity of Hámán’s speech— the curse (of God) be upon him!
  • He did not know friend from enemy: he was playing back gammon (all) wrong, like a blind man.
  • Thy enemy is none but thyself, O accursed one: do not despitefully call the innocent (thy) enemies.
  • In thy sight this evil state (in which thou art) is dawlat (worldly fortune), whereof the beginning is dawádaw (running to and fro) and the end lat (blows).
  • If by degrees thou do not run away from this worldly fortune, autumn will come o’er this spring of thine. 2740
  • East and West have seen many like thee, whose heads have been severed from their bodies.
  • After all, how should East and West, which are not permanent, make any one enduring?
  • Thou takest pride in the fact that men, from fear and bondage, have become thy flatterers for a few days.
  • When men bow in adoration to any one, they are (really) cramming poison into his soul.
  • When his adorer turns away from him, he knows that that (adoration) was poisonous and destructive to him. 2745
  • Oh, blest is he whose carnal soul was abased! Alas who became like a mountain from arrogance
  • Know that this pride is a killing poison: that fool toxicated by the poisonous wine.
  • When an unhappy wretch drinks the poisonous wine, his head in delight for one moment.
  • After one moment the poison falls on his spirit the poison exercises (complete) sway over his spirit.
  • If you have not firm belief in its being poisonous (and do not know) what (a deadly) poison it is, look at the people of ‘Ád. 2750
  • When one king gains the upper hand (prevails) over another. king, he kills him or confines him in a dungeon;
  • But if he find a fallen wounded man, the king will make a plaster for him and bestow gifts on him.
  • If that pride is not poison, then why did he kill the (vanquished) king without (his having committed any) crime or offence?
  • And how did he treat this other (helpless) man (so) kindly without (his having performed any) service? From these two actions you may recognise (the poisonous nature of) pride.
  • No highwayman ever attacked a beggar: does a wolf ever bite a dead wolf? 2755
  • Khizr made a breach in the boat in order that the boat might be saved from the wicked.
  • Since the broken (contrite) one will be saved, be thou broken (contrite). Safety lies in poverty enter into poverty
  • The mountain that possessed some cash in its mine was riven to pieces by the strokes of the pick-axe.
  • The sword is for him who has a (high and proud) neck; no blow falls on the shadow that is thrown (flat upon the ground).
  • Eminence is naphtha and fire, O misguided one: O brother, how (why) art thou going into the fire? 2760
  • How should anything that is level with the earth become a target for arrows? Consider!
  • (But if) it raise its head from the earth, then, like targets, it will suffer blows irremediable.