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  • The nine years old vinegar is becoming sweet; the stone and marble are becoming ruby(-like) and golden.
  • The sun in heaven is clapping his hands: the motes are dancing like lovers.
  • (All) eyes are intoxicated with the orchard abounding in greenery, (where) the blossoms are budding on the boughs. 2535
  • The eye of blessedness works absolute magic: the spirit is made victorious (mansúr), crying “I am God.”
  • If the fox is seducing an ass, let him seduce (him)! Do not thou be an ass, and be not troubled.
  • Story of the person who rushed into a house in terror, with cheeks yellow (pale) as saffron, lips blue as indigo, and hands trembling like the leaves of a tree. The master of the house asked, “Is all well (with you)? What is the matter?” He replied, “Outside they are taking asses by force.” “Bless you!” cried the other; “they are taking asses, (but) you are not an ass: what are you afraid of?” He said, “They are taking (them) in a great hurry: (all) discrimination has ceased. To-day I am afraid they will take me for an ass.”
  • A certain man took refuge in a house: his face was yellow, his lips blue, and his colour had ebbed away.
  • The master of the house said to him, “Is it well (with you)? for your hand is trembling like (that of) an old man.
  • What has happened? Why have you taken refuge (here)? How have you lost the colour of your face so (entirely)?” 2540
  • “To-day,” said he, “they are seizing asses outside (in the streets) to do forced labour for the tyrannical king.”
  • He (the householder) replied, “O beloved of your uncle, they are taking it because it is an ass: since you are not an ass, go (your way): why are you troubled at this?”
  • He answered, “They are very urgent and furious in taking (them): ’twill be no wonder if they take me too for an ass.
  • They have put their hands with all their might to (the job of) taking asses: accordingly discrimination has ceased.”
  • Since undiscriminating persons are our rulers, they carry off the owner of the ass instead of the ass. 2545
  • (But) the King of our city is not one who takes at random: He has discrimination, He is hearing and seeing.
  • Be a man and do not be afraid of those who take the asses: thou art not an ass: be not afraid, O Jesus of the (world of) Time.
  • The Fourth Heaven, moreover, is filled with thy light: God forbid (that I should say) that the Stable is thy abode.
  • Thou art higher even than the sky and the stars, though for a good reason thou art (temporarily) in the Stable.
  • The Master of the Stable is one thing and the ass another: not every one who has entered the Stable is an ass. 2550
  • Why have we fallen in behind the ass? Tell of the Rose-garden and the fresh roses,
  • And of the pomegranate and the citron and the apple-bough, and of the wine and the fair youths innumerable,
  • Or of the Sea whose waves are pearls and whose pearls are speaking and seeing,
  • Or of the Birds which pick roses and lay eggs of silver and gold,
  • Or of the Falcons which foster the partridges and fly both with their bellies turned downward and also on their backs. 2555
  • In the world there are invisible ladders, (leading) step by step up to the summit of heaven.
  • There is a different ladder for every class, there is a different heaven for every (traveller's) way.
  • Every one is ignorant of another's condition (in) the kingdom (which is) wide and without end or beginning.
  • This one is amazed at that one and asks wherefore he is happy, while that one is astounded at this one and asks why he is amazed.
  • The area of God's earth is spacious: every tree springs up from a certain soil. 2560
  • The leaves and boughs on the trees are giving thanks (to God), crying, “Oh, what a fine kingdom! Oh, what a broad expanse!”
  • The nightingales are (flying) round the knobby blossom, saying, “Give us some of that which thou drinkest.”
  • This discourse hath no end: return to the fox and the lion and the (lion's) sickness and hunger.
  • How the fox brought the ass to the lion, and how the ass jumped away from the lion, and how the fox reproached the lion, saying, “The ass was still far off: you were too hasty”; and how the lion made excuses and entreated the fox to go and trick him a second time.
  • When he (the fox) brought him (the ass) up the hill towards the meadow, in order that the lion might pulverise him with a (sudden) charge,
  • He (the ass) was (still) far from the lion, but the lion would not wait for him to come near before attacking. 2565
  • The terrible lion made a spring from an eminence, (though) indeed he had not the strength and power to move (effectively).
  • The ass saw him from afar and turned and fled to the bottom of the hill, dropping his shoes as he ran.
  • “O king of us (all),” said the fox to the lion, “why didst not thou restrain thyself in the hour of battle,
  • In order that that misguided (creature) might come near thee and that thou might’st vanquish him with a small attack?
  • Precipitation and haste is the Devil's wile; patience and calculation is God's grace. 2570
  • He (the ass) was far off and saw the attack and fled: thy weakness is made manifest and thy prestige is destroyed.”
  • He (the lion) replied, “I thought my strength was restored: I did not know my feebleness was so great.
  • Moreover, my hunger and need had passed beyond bounds: through starvation my patience and understanding had been lost.
  • If by (using) your wits you can reclaim him and bring him back once more,
  • I shall be much obliged to you: try hard, maybe you will fetch him by cunning.” 2575
  • “Yes,” said the fox, “if God should give (me) help and set a seal of blindness on his heart
  • (For) then he will forget the terror which he felt on seeing (thee): this will not be alien to his asininity.
  • But when I bring him, do not thou rush (at him), lest thou lose him again by overhaste.”
  • “Yes,” replied the lion; “I have found by experience that I am very ill and that my body has become shaky.
  • Until the ass comes quite near to me, I will not move, I will (apparently) be sound asleep.” 2580
  • (Thereupon) the fox departed, saying, “O king, (offer) a prayer that a (great) heedlessness may muffle his reason.
  • The ass has made vows of repentance to the Creator (and resolved) that he will not be duped by any ne’er-do-well.