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  • Inasmuch as his spirit is wholly fire, not light, who would throw anything but husks into a blazing fire?
  • The kernel remains outside and the husk, (consisting of mere) words, goes (in): how should the stomach be made warm and stout by husks?
  • The Fire of Hell torments only the husks: the Fire has nothing to do with any kernel;
  • And if a fire should dart its flames at the kernel, know that ’tis in order to cook it, not to burn it.
  • So long as God is the Wise, know that this law is perpetual (both) in the past and in the time that has not (yet) come. 3930
  • The pure kernels and (also) the husks are pardoned by Him: how, then, should He burn the kernel? Far (be it) from Him!
  • If in His grace He beat the head of him (who resembles the husk), he (such an one) will feel an eager desire for the red wine;
  • And if He do not beat him, he will remain, like the jurist, with his mouth closed against the potations and festivity of these (spiritual) kings.
  • The king said to his cup-bearer, “O well-conducted (youth), why art thou silent? Give (it him) and put him in good humour.”
  • Over every mind there is a hidden Ruler, (who) cunningly diverts from his purpose whomsoever He will. 3935
  • The sun in the East and his radiance are bound like captives in His chain.
  • He causes the (celestial) sphere to revolve immediately when He chants half of a cunning spell in its brain.
  • The mind which dominates another mind has (obtains) the dice (of victory) from Him: He is the Master-player.
  • He (the cup-bearer) gave him (the jurist) several cuffs on the head, saying, “Take (the cup)!” The tormented man drained it in dread of (receiving further) blows.
  • He became tipsy and merry and smiling (gay) as a garden: he began to act like a boon-companion and tell ridiculous stories and make jokes. 3940
  • He became pot-valiant and jolly and snapped his fingers: in latrinam ivit ut mingeret. [He became pot-valiant and jolly and snapped his fingers: he went to the latrine in order to urinate.]
  • Erat in latrina puella lunae similis, venustissima, una de regis ancillis. [A maiden as (lovely as) the (full) moon was in the latrine, very beautiful and one of the maidservants of the king.]
  • When he espied her, his mouth gaped in amazement, his reason fled and his body was ready for violence.
  • Per aeva coelebs vixerat: extemplo cupidine et furore accensus puellae manus injecit. [He had been a bachelor (for) ages: passionate and drunk (with lust), he immediately grabbed the maidservant (with his) two hands.]
  • Valde trepidavit puella et clamorem sustulit: ei non poterat resistere, operam perdidit. [The maiden trembled greatly and raised a clamor: she could not oppose him and (her resistance) had no benefit.] 3945
  • Femina viro in manus tempore congressus tradita is like dough in the hands of a baker. [A woman in the hands of a man at the moment of (such an) encounter is like dough in the hands of a baker.]
  • He kneads it now gently, now roughly, and makes it groan under (the thumps of) his fist;
  • Now he draws it out flat on a board (rolling-pin), now for a bit he rolls it up;
  • Now he pours water on it and now salt: he puts it to the ordeal of oven and fire.
  • Thus are the sought and the seeker intertwined: (both) the conquered and the conqueror are (engaged) in this sport. 3950
  • This sport is not between husband and wife only: this is the practice of everything that is loved and loves.
  • A mutual embracing, like (that of) Wís and Rámín, is obligatory (Divinely ordained) between eternal and non-eternal and between substance and accident;
  • But the sport is of a different character in each case: the embracing is for a different reason in each instance.
  • This is said as a parable for husband and wife, meaning, “O husband, do not dismiss thy wife unkindly.
  • On thy wedding-night did not the bridesmaid place her (the wife's) hand in thy hand as a goodly trust? 3955
  • For the evil or good which thou doest unto her, O man worthy of confidence, God will do (the same) unto thee.”
  • To resume, on this occasion this jurist was so beside himself that neither continence nor asceticism remained to him.
  • The  jurist threw himself on the nymph: his fire caught hold of her cotton.
  • Anima cum anima conjuncta est, corpora mutuo amplexu implicata tanquam duae aves abscissis capitibus tremebant. [Soul was joined to soul and (their) bodies strove (in mutual embrace), trembling like two decapitated birds.]
  • What (to them) was the wine-party or the king or Arslán (the Turkish slave)? What (to them) was modesty or religion or fear and dread of (losing) their lives? 3960
  • Their eyes were contorted like (the letters) ‘ayn and ghayn: here neither Hasan nor Husayn is seen distinctly.
  • It (the jurist's absence) became protracted, and how could he return (to the party)? The king's expectancy too passed beyond (all) bounds.
  • The king came to see what had happened: he beheld there (what resembled) the commotion (on the Day) of Calamity.
  • The jurist sprang up in terror and fled to the banquet-hall and hastily seized the wine-cup.
  • The king, full of fire and fury like Hell, was thirsting for the blood of the guilty pair. 3965
  • When the jurist saw his enraged and wrathful countenance, which had become bitter and murderous as a cup of poison,
  • He shouted to his cup-bearer, “O solicitous (attendant), why do you sit (there) dumbfounded? Give (him wine) and put him in good humour!”
  • The  king laughed and said, “O sir, I am restored to my good humour: the girl is thine.
  • I am the king: my business is (to show) justice and bounty: I drink of that which my munificence bestowed on my friend.
  • How should I give friend and kinsman for food and drink what I (myself) would not (eat and) drink as (gladly as) honey? 3970
  • I let my pages eat and drink of that which I eat and drink at my own private table.
  • I give my slaves the same food, cooked or raw, as I eat myself.
  • When I put on a robe of silk or satin, I clothe my retainers in the same (fabric), not in coarse woollen garments.
  • I feel reverence for the all-accomplished Prophet, who said, ‘Clothe them in that wherewith ye clothe yourselves.’
  • Mustafá (Mohammed) gave his (spiritual) sons this injunction —Feed your dependents with what ye eat (yourselves).’” 3975