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  • Sorrow pulls up the crooked rotten (root), in order that it may disclose the root that is veiled from sight.
  • Whatsoever (things) sorrow may cause to be shed from the heart or may take away (from it), assuredly it will bring better in exchange,
  • Especially for him who knows with certainty (intuitively) that sorrow is the servant of the possessors of (intuitive) certainty.
  • Unless the clouds and the lightning show a frowning aspect, the vines will be burnt by the smiles of the sun. 3685
  • Good and ill fortune become guests in thy heart: like the star (planet), they go from house to house.
  • At the time when it (the auspicious or inauspicious star) is residing in thy mansion, adapt thyself to it and be agreeable, like its ascendant,
  • So that, when it rejoins the Moon, it may speak gratefully of thee to the Lord of the heart.
  • Job, the (prophet who was) patient and well-pleased (with God), showed sweetness to God's guest during seven years (spent) in tribulation,
  • To the end that when the stern-visaged tribulation should turn back (on its way to God), it might give thanks to him in God's presence in a hundred fashions, 3690
  • Saying, “From love (of Thee) Job never for one moment looked sourly on me, the killer of that which is loved.”
  • From his loyalty and his shame before God's knowledge, he (Job) was like milk and honey (in his behaviour) towards tribulation.
  • (Whenever) the thought (of sorrow) comes into thy breast anew, go to meet it with smiles and laughter,
  • Saying, “O my Creator, preserve me from its evil: do not deprive me, (but) let me partake, of its good!
  • O my Lord, prompt me to give thanks for that which I see (receive): do not let me feel any subsequent regret, if it (the benefit received) shall pass away.” 3695
  • Pay watchful regard to the sour-looking thought: deem that sour one to be sweet as sugar.
  • If the cloud apparently has a sour face, (yet) the cloud is the bringer-on of the rose-garden and the destroyer of the nitrous (barren) soil.
  • Know that the thought of sorrow is like the cloud: do not look so sourly on the sour!
  • It may be that the pearl (of thy desire) is in its hand: endeavour that it may depart from thee well-pleased.
  • And if the pearl be not (in its hand) and it be not rich, (yet) thou wilt increase (strengthen) thy sweet habit. 3700
  • Thy habit will profit thee on another occasion: some day thy need will suddenly be fulfilled.
  • The thought that hinders thee from joy comes by the command and wise purpose of the Maker.
  • O youth, do not call it worthless: it may be a (happy) star and endowed with imperial fortune.
  • Do not say it is a branch: take it to be the root, in order that thou mayst always be master of thy object of desire;
  • For if thou take it to be (merely) a branch (derivative) and pernicious, thine eye will be waiting to see the root. 3705
  • Waiting to see is poison to (spiritual) perception: by that method thou wilt remain perpetually in death.
  • Recognise it as the root, clasp it to thy bosom, and be for ever delivered from the death of waiting to see.
  • How the Sultan (Mahmud) showed favour to Ayáz.
  • “O Ayáz, who art full of humbleness and sincere in all thy ways, thy sincerity is mightier than sea and mountain.
  • For thee there is no stumbling in the hour of lust, so that thy reason, which resembles a mountain (in solidity), should go (hither and thither) like a straw;
  • Nor in the hour of anger and vengeance do thy powers of long-suffering fail to hold  fast and firm.” 3710
  • Virilitas haec virilitas est, barba et penis non est; sin minus, rex virorum esset veretrum asini. [Manhood is this manliness, not (just) a beard and a penis; otherwise, an ass’s penis would be the king of men.]
  • Whom has God in the Qur’an called men? How should there be room for this body there?
  • What worth has the animal soul? O father, come now, pass through the market of the butchers,
  • (And you will see) a hundred thousand (sheeps’) heads laid on paunches (tripe), of which (heads) the value is less than (that of) the fat caudal part and tail.
  • Meretrix est (quaevis femina) cui penis impetu mens (tanquam) mus fiat, libido tanquam leo. [A prostitute is (one) who, due to the movement of a penis, (her) intellect becomes a mouse (and her) lust like a lion.] 3715
  • How a father enjoined his daughter to take care lest she should become with child by her husband.
  • There was a Khwája who had a daughter with cheeks like (those of) Venus, a face like the moon, and a breast (white) as silver.
  • (When) she reached maturity, he gave his daughter to a husband: as regards social rank the husband was not a (good) match for her.
  • When a melon is ripe it becomes watery and goes to waste and ruin unless you slice it.
  • Since it was (a case of) necessity, he gave his daughter to one who was not (socially) her match, in fear of the evil (that might ensue).
  • He said to his daughter, “Guard thyself from this new bridegroom, do not become with child; 3720
  • For thy marriage to this beggar was (dictated) by necessity; there is no constancy in this vagabond fellow.
  • Of a sudden he will jump off and leave all behind: his child will remain on thy hands as a wrong (for which there is no redress).”
  • The daughter replied, “O father, I will do service (to thee): thy counsel is acceptable and prized.”
  • Every two or three days the father would enjoin his daughter to take precautions;
  • (Nevertheless) she suddenly became with child by him (her husband): how should it be (otherwise when) both the wife and the husband are young?. 3725
  • She kept it (the child) hidden from her father, (till) the child was five or six months old.
  • (Then) the discovery was made. “What is this?” asked her father; “did not I tell thee to adopt (the practice of) withdrawal from him?
  • These injunctions of mine were (mere) wind, forsooth! My counsel and exhortations have been of no use to thee.”
  • “Father,” said she, “how should I guard myself? Man and wife, beyond doubt, are (as) fire and cotton.
  • What means has the cotton of guarding itself from the fire, or when is there (any) carefulness and caution in the fire?” 3730
  • He replied, “I said, ‘noli te viro admovere, noli semen ejus recipere. [He replied, “I said, ‘don’t go to him (for sexual pleasure), don’t accept his sperm.]