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  • Cut off the heads of these four live birds and make everlasting the creatures that are not enduring for ever.
  • There is the duck and the peacock and the crow and the cock: these are a parable of the four (evil) dispositions in (human) souls.
  • The duck is greed, and the cock is lust; eminence is like the peacock, and the crow is (worldly) desire.
  • His (the crow's) object of desire is this, that he forms hopes and wishes for immortality or long life. 45
  • The duck is greed, for her bill is always in the ground, seeking what is buried in the wet and dry.
  • That gullet (of hers) is never idle for a moment: it hearkens unto naught of the (Divine) ordinance save the command “Eat ye!”
  • ’Tis like the looter who digs up (ravages) the house and very quickly fills his bag,
  • Cramming into the bag good and bad (indifferently), single pearls and chickpeas,
  • Cramming dry and wet into the sack, for fear lest another enemy should arrive. 50
  • Time presses, the opportunity is small, he is terrified: without delay he heaves it under his arm as speedily as possible.
  • But the true believer, from his confidence in that (Divine) Life, conducts his raid in a leisurely manner and with deliberation.
  • He hath no fear of missing his chance or of the enemy, for he recognises the King's dominion over the enemy.
  • He hath no fear of the other fellow-servants coming to jostle him and gain the advantage, 55
  • (For) he perceived the King's justice in restraining his followers so that none durst do violence to any one.
  • Consequently he does not hurry and is calm: he hath no fear of missing his (appointed) portion.
  • He hath much deliberation and patience and long-suffering; he is contented and unselfish and pure of heart,
  • For this deliberation is the ray of the Merciful (God), while that haste is from the impulse of the Devil,
  • Because the Devil frightens him (the greedy man) away from poverty and kills the beast of burden, patience, by stabbing. 60
  • Hear from the Qur’án that the Devil in menace is threatening thee with hard poverty,
  • That in haste thou mayst eat foul things and take foul things, (having in thee) no generosity, no deliberation, no merit acquired by good works.
  • Necessarily (therefore) the infidel takes his food in seven bowels: his religion and spirit are thin and lean, his belly fat.
  • Concerning the occasion of the coming of the Tradition of Mustafá (Mohammed), the blessings of God be upon him, that the infidel takes his food in seven bowels, while the true believer takes his food in one bowel.
  • The infidels became the guests of the Prophet: they came to the mosque at eventide,
  • Saying, “We have come here as visitors seeking hospitality, O King, O thou who art the entertainer of (all) the inhabitants of the world. 65
  • We are destitute and have arrived from afar: hark, shed thy grace and light upon us!”
  • He said (to his Companions), “O my friends, divide (these guests amongst you), for ye are filled with me and with my nature.”
  • The bodies of every army are filled with the King; hence they would draw the sword against (his) Majesty's enemies.
  • ’Tis because of the King's anger you draw the sword; otherwise, what (cause of) anger have you against your brethren?
  • (From) the reflexion of the King's anger you are striking your innocent brother with a mace of ten manns' weight. 70
  • The King is one soul, and the army is filled with him: the spirit is like the water, and these bodies are the river-bed.
  • If the water of the King's spirit be sweet, all the river-beds are filled with the sweet water;
  • For only the King’s law do his subjects have (as their own): so hath the sovereign of ‘Abas declared. 
  • Each Companion chose a guest. Amongst them,(the infidels) was one stout and incomparable (in that respect).
  • He had a huge body: no one took him along, he remained in the mosque like the dregs in a cup. 75
  • As he was left behind by all, Mustafá (Mohammed) took him away. In the (Prophet's) herd there were seven goats that gave milk,
  • For the goats used to stay in the house for milking in preparation for mealtime.
  • That famishing giant son of a Ghuzz Turcoman devoured the bread and (other) food and (drank all) the milk of the seven goats.
  • The whole household became enraged, for they all desired goat's milk.
  • He made his voracious belly like a drum: he consumed singly the portion of eighteen persons. 80
  • At bed-time he went and sat in his room; then the maid angrily shut the door.
  • She put in (fastened) the door-chain from the outside, for she was angry with him and resentful.
  • At midnight or dawn, when the infidel felt an urgent need and stomach-ache,
  • He hastened from his bed towards the door, (but) laying his hand on the door he found it shut.
  • The cunning man employed various devices to open it, but the fastening did not give way. 85
  • The urgency increased, and the room was narrow: he remained in dismay and without remedy and dumbfounded.
  • He made shift and crept to sleep: in his slumber he dreamed that he was in a desolate place.
  • Since a desolate place was in his mind, his (inward) sight went thither in sleep.
  • Cum sese videret in loco vastato et vacuo, tanta necessitate coactus extemplo cacavit. [When he saw himself in an empty and desolate place, (being in) such need, he defecated in (that very) moment.]
  • Experrectus vidit stratum lecti in quo dormiverat sordibus plenum: pudore commotus insanire coepit. [He woke up and saw the bedclothes (in which he had slept) full of filth: he became crazy from (shame and) anguish.] 90
  • E corde ejus ascendunt centum gemitus propter tale opprobrium pulvere non coopertum. [A hundred groans arose from his inward (heart) because of such a disgrace not covered (up) by dust.]