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1 1, 1 | the garment of Yusuf;~And said, "For the sake of our ancient
2 1, 1 | Spirit, a hundredfold."~I said, "O thou who art far from '
3 1, 1 | till another season."~He said, " Feed me, for I am an
4 1, 1 | lost by giving credit."~I said, "'Tis best to veil the
5 1, 1 | the talk of strangers."~He said, "Without veil or covering
6 1, 1 | coverlet as the Beloved?"~I said, "If the Beloved were exposed
7 1, 1 | the 'Sun of Tabriz.'"~He said, "Thy words are endless.
8 1, 3 | the Khalifa.~The Khalifa said to Laila, "Art thou really
9 1, 3 | right devotion.~In one 'twas said, "Abstinence profits not;~
10 1, 3 | but charity."~In one 'twas said, "Thy fasting and thy charity~
11 1, 3 | and snares."~In one 'twas said, "Works are the one thing
12 1, 3 | delusion."~In one 'twas said, "Commands and prohibitions
13 1 (4) | Said of the Seven Sleepers in
14 1, 3 | s power." 5~In one 'twas said, "Reference to thine own
15 1, 3 | tis of Him."~In one 'twas said, "Leave power and weakness
16 1, 3 | is an idol."~In one 'twas said, "Quench not thy earthy
17 1, 3 | of union."~In one 'twas said, "Quench that torch without
18 1, 3 | and behind."~In one 'twas said, "Whatsoever God has given
19 1, 3 | abstinence."~In one 'twas said, "Give up all thou possessest,~
20 1, 3 | hit on it!)~In one 'twas said, "The right road is attainable,~
21 1, 3 | and that."~In one 'twas said, "Choose ye a wise Director,~
22 1, 3 | have arisen.~In one 'twas said, "Thyself art thy master,~
23 1, 3 | thy head!"~In one 'twas said, "All we see is One.~Whoever
24 1, 3 | double vision."~In one 'twas said, "A hundred are even as
25 1, 5 | human exertions.~The beasts said, "O enlightened sage,~Lay
26 1, 5 | Lord of all creatures."~He said, "True; but though trust
27 1, 5 | objects, ye are fools."~They said, "What is gained from the
28 1, 5 | sucking babes.~The Prophet said, 'The people are God's family;'~
29 1, 5 | our daily bread?"~The lion said, "True; yet the Lord of
30 1, 5 | often times to the weak.~He said, "O friends, God has given
31 1 (5) | The angels said, "We have no knowledge but
32 1 (14)| Koran vii. 139: "He said, 'Thou shalt not see me.'" ~
33 1, 6 | freewill.~The ambassador said, "O Commander of the faithful,~
34 1, 6 | confined in a cage?"~He said, "God speaks words of power
35 1, 7 | midst of fever.~The prophet said, "O disciple, though you
36 1, 7 | if He willed it;~I only said, "Is it right? " and He
37 1, 8 | moment's respite.~But He said, "Speak on, 'tis no fault,~'
38 1, 8 | Wherefore the sages have said not idly,~" The bodies of
39 1, 8 | bewailing the past.~Then 'Omar said to him, "This wailing of
40 1, 9 | her that the Prophet had said, "Poverty is my glory,"
41 1, 9 | his failing.~The Prophet said that women hold dominion~
42 1 (3) | Muhammad said these words to his wife,
43 1, 9 | in wisdom and honour.~He said, "By Allah, who knoweth
44 1, 9 | not enough."~The Prophet said that God has declared,~"
45 1, 9 | search in such hearts!"~He said also, "Enter the hearts
46 1, 9 | diffused joy upon us; He said,~'What are ye saying at
47 1 (10)| present and instant," as said above. ~
48 1, 10 | he roared with pain, and said to the artist, "What part
49 1, 10 | chastisements patiently.~The Prophet said to 'Ali, "O 'Ali,~Thou art
50 1, 11 | of his friend.~His friend said, "who art thou. O faithful
51 1, 11 | thou. O faithful one?"~He said, "'Tis I." He answered, "
52 1, 11 | O Beloved!"~The friend said, "Since 'tis I, let me come
53 1, 15 | Zaid.~At dawn the Prophet said to Zaid,~"How is it with
54 1, 15 | faithful slave am I." Again he said,~"If the garden of faith
55 1, 15 | heaven or hell. The body, he said, is as a mother, and the
56 1, 15 | of "Reserve".~The Prophet said, "My companions are as the
57 1, 16 | that great crime; but 'Ali said he always refused to do
58 1, 16 | at God's instrument?"~He said, "If this be so, why is
59 2, 1 | by God?~The Friend of God said, "I love not them that set?" 2~
60 2, 1 | Into that body's night, it said, "He hath not forsaken thee;"~
61 2 (2) | he beheld a star, and he said, 'This is my Lord;' but
62 2 (2) | Lord;' but when it set he said, 'I love not Gods which
63 2, 1 | being a wise man."~The Sufi said, "They were all singing
64 2, 2 | in the world.~The pauper said, "Your beneficence is my
65 2, 2 | affliction."~Just so Iblis said to Allah, "O have compassion;~
66 2 (7) | Zakhariah the prophet is said to have taken refuge from
67 2, 4 | outward appearances. He said, "It is true I am not homogeneous
68 2, 5 | shot not when ye shot," was said by God;~God's action has
69 2, 6 | ascended above the heavens,~And said, "I love not Gods that set;" 5~
70 2, 7 | state of the wicked.~Moses said, "O beneficent Creator,~
71 2, 8 | is brought to them;~God said, "Call on God;" continue
72 2, 8 | worshipper of the calf.~Moses said to one of those full of
73 2, 8 | perfume of Muhammad,~He said, 'This is no false one.'~
74 2, 10 | following conversation:~The Sage said, "Whither are you going,
75 2, 10 | corner of my cloak."~The Sage said, "Circumambulate me seven
76 2, 10 | Ka'ba 'My house,'~But has said to me 'O my servant' seventy
77 2, 10 | adversity.~ ~~The sick man said, "Sickness has brought me
78 2, 10 | for the good.~The Prophet said to that sick man,~"Pray
79 2, 10 | rich requital. ~Have ye not said, "We are victims, ~Mere
80 2, 11 | mysteries.~"Whither go you," said he, "O foolish one,~Seeing
81 2, 11 | who came from the mosque, said to him,~"Give me that sigh,
82 2, 11 | prayers instead."~The first said, "I give it, and take your
83 2, 12 | do so." Then the second said to the speaker, "Ah! you
84 2, 12 | Last of all, the fourth said, "God be praised that I
85 2, 12 | discovered their object, and said, "O noble sirs, kill my
86 2, 13 | old man, losing patience, said, "O fool, know you not that
87 2, 14 | him on his camel. Then he said, "As you possess such great
88 2, 14 | loaf of bread." The Arab said, "In that case get, off
89 2, 15 | answer to him.~That person said in the time of Shu'aib (
90 2, 15 | thereto,~"Why hast thou said I have sinned so much,~And
91 2, 15 | revelations of heaven;~He said, "If He has punished me,
92 2, 15 | the sign of it?"~Shu'aib said, "O Lord, he repels my arguments,~
93 2, 16 | mean is relative.~ ~~He said, "Though the path of the
94 2, 16 | with energy.~The Prophet said, 'Mine eyes sleep,~But my
95 2, 17 | The Shaikh laughed, and said to him, "O friend,~This
96 2, 17 | of a dirhem. The Persian said he would buy "angur" with
97 2, 17 | angur" with it, the Arab said he would buy "inab," while
98 2 (3) | Koran xxvii. 16: "Solomon said, O men, we have been taught
99 3, 1 | come hither!" ~At last men said, "O Prophet, this call is
100 3, 1 | Prophet boiled up, and he said ~(Uttering one or two secrets
101 3, 1 | not such a mouth." ~God said, "Call upon me with another
102 3, 1 | sweetened thereby, ~And Satan said to him, "Be quiet, O austere
103 3, 1 | before him in a vision, ~Who said to him, "Ah! thou hast ceased
104 3, 1 | calling upon Him?" ~The man said, "The answer 'Here am I'
105 3, 2 | the darkness; and God has said, 'No criminality is imputed
106 3, 5 | another felt its ear, and said it must be a large fan;
107 3, 5 | when he was swimming, ~Who said, "I desire not to enter
108 3, 5 | O weak one." 1 ~Canaan said, "Nay! I have learned to
109 3, 5 | whose words are as a seal, ~Said, 'Acquiescence in infidelity
110 3, 5 | from this dilemma? " ~I said to him, "This infidelity
111 3, 5 | treachery. ~The striker said, "Let me first ask you a
112 3, 6 | at length. His mistress said to him, "You are now in
113 3, 8 | Accordingly, when he entered, one said, "O master, how pale you
114 3, 8 | are looking!" and another said, "You are looking very ill
115 3, 9 | bearer of the firewood, said it was heavy. ~No eye but
116 3, 10 | He turned to his wife and said, "O dame,~The harvest of
117 3, 11 | Darvesh replied as follows:~He said, "This at least is notorious
118 3, 12 | days in one village.~He said, "If I tarry in one house
119 3, 12 | than a father.~The Prophet said, "To you, O blessed ones,~
120 3, 12 | mercy of God be upon him!) ~Said, "I journeyed long time
121 3, 13 | Compulsionists.~The men of Saba said, "O preachers, enough!~What
122 3 (5) | God said, "Come ye either in obedience,
123 3, 13 | the prophets.~The prophets said, "How long, in our benevolence,~
124 3, 14 | preserve him from harm.~'Tis said, "Mourn not for your slaughtered
125 3, 15 | language of animals, for, he said, men used their language
126 3, 15 | The cock, to appease him, said that on the morrow the master'
127 3, 15 | freewill is good for man.~God said, "Do thou grant his earnest
128 3 (2) | Koran viii. 17. Said of the sand cast into the
129 3, 17 | in his sight.~~A damsel said to her lover, "O fond youth,~
130 3, 17 | himself up to his lord.~He said, "I am a drawer of water;
131 3, 17 | Prince by the Vakil.~~He said, "O phoenix of God and goal
132 3, 17 | departed outside thee, ~I said it was like the Christian
133 3, 17 | the last day. ~Then Heaven said to Earth, ~"If you never
134 3, 18 | sleep a night and live. Some said it was haunted by malevolent
135 3, 18 | was naught, and God has said, "Wish for death if you
136 3, 18 | sleeping in the mosque. He said that he was as one of the
137 4, 1 | modest woman or not. He said he of course knew beforehand
138 4, 1 | is exalted above" what is said by evil men. 4~I knew you
139 4, 2 | For this cause Mustafa said, "Adam and all prophets~
140 4, 2 | the roof of his palace.~He said to himself, "Whose heavy
141 4, 2 | the rounds in search."~He said, "What seek ye?" They said "
142 4, 2 | said, "What seek ye?" They said "Our camels" 12~He said, "
143 4, 2 | said "Our camels" 12~He said, "Who ever searched for
144 4, 2 | camels on a housetop?"~They said, "We follow thy example,~
145 4, 2 | Sufi fashion. His friends said to him, in the words of
146 4, 2 | of our father Adam,~Who said of yore, "O Lord, we have
147 4 (28)| He said, "That thou hast caused
148 4, 2 | conceit of cleverness.~He said, "I will escape to the top
149 4 (33)| and cut their hands, and said, 'God keep us, this is no
150 4, 3 | the light of God, as it is said by the Prophet, "I pass
151 4, 3 | secret fear within him. We said 'Fear not, for thou shalt
152 4, 3 | s magicians) '". 4~Moses said, "Their sorcery confuses
153 4, 3 | have no discernment."~God said, "I will generate in them
154 4, 4 | hearing what Bayazid had said, used to frequent his tomb.
155 4, 4 | visibly beside himself;~Said, "There is no God beside
156 4, 4 | ecstatic state had passed,~They said, "You said so and so, which
157 4, 4 | passed,~They said, "You said so and so, which was impious."~
158 4, 4 | Whatever he says is really said by that spirit,~Though it
159 4, 4 | his seniors.~The Prophet said, "O ye who regard only the
160 4, 4 | tokens. ~For his sake I said that if ye desire counsel ~
161 4, 5 | wiles and snares;~The bird said to him, "O noble sir,~In
162 4, 5 | entirely free.~Then he said, "Do not grieve for what
163 4, 5 | lamentations and weeping.~The bird said to him, "Did I not counsel
164 4, 5 | man recovered himself and said, "Well then,~Tell me now
165 4, 6 | him to do so, but Pharaoh said he would first consult his
166 4, 6 | falcon's appearance, and said to it, "What was your mother
167 4, 6 | one another. Thus it is said that when holy men pray
168 4, 6 | sported with playthings.~Well said the famous Hakim Sanai,~'
169 4, 6 | fire.~Last night a Sunni said, "The world is transitory; ~
170 4, 6 | in idle talk."~The Sunni said, "One day I saw two persons ~
171 4, 6 | of their discourse. ~One said, 'This sky will pass away; ~
172 4, 6 | had a builder.' ~The other said, 'It is eternal and without
173 4, 6 | own builder.' ~The first said, 'Do you then deny the Creator, ~
174 4, 6 | heavens. ~Then the first said, 'O friend, within me is
175 4, 6 | my beloved.' ~The other said, "I take not these for a
176 4, 6 | common people." ~The Sunni said, "When genuine and base
177 4, 7 | to destroy them?" 5~Moses said, "O Lord of the day of account,~
178 4, 7 | one from the other."~God said, "From whom learnest thou
179 4, 7 | threshing-floor?"~Moses said, "O Lord, Thou hast given
180 4, 7 | given me discernment."~God said, "Then have not I also discernment?~
181 4, 8 | ruins of Jerusalem, and he said, "How shall God give life
182 4, 8 | raised him again to life, and said to him, "How long hast thou
183 4, 8 | long hast thou waited?" He said, "I have waited a day."
184 4, 8 | have waited a day." God said, "Nay, thou hast waited
185 4, 9 | Mule and the Camel.~A mule said to a camel, "How is it that
186 4, 9 | are filled with wonder.~He said, "Thou mighty hill, what
187 4, 9 | lilies and roses.'~The other said, 'The finger is the real
188 4, 9 | its working.'~A third ant said, ' No; the action proceeds
189 4, 9 | the ants, who had some wit~Said, 'Ye regard only the outward
190 4, 9 | Prophet Muhammad.~Mustafa said to the angel Gabriel,~"O
191 4, 9 | thee with my eyes."~Gabriel said, "Thou canst not do so,
192 4, 9 | weak and frail."~Muhammad said, "Show it, that this body
193 5, 1 | Prophet made light of it, and said he would clean it up himself.
194 5, 2 | had in his hand. The Arab said that he had collected this
195 5, 3 | abstain.~Again, "Eat ye," is said recognising the snares of
196 5, 3 | them their prey. Thus it is said, "Before them have we set
197 5, 4 | creatures with these."~Iblis said, "Bravo!" but at the same
198 5, 4 | O cursed one."~But Iblis said, "Give me more, O blessed
199 5, 4 | silken garments.~But Iblis said, " O Lord, I want more aids
200 5, 5 | him rave as he did, and he said if he lived on mere earthly
201 5, 5 | more opposed to them. God said, "What thinkest thou of
202 5, 5 | prayeth? " 2~The king then said to him, "What is this inspiration
203 5, 6 | and imitates all that is said by the trainer behind the
204 5, 7 | the handful of earth, God said he would make him the angel
205 5, 7 | hateful to men; but God said 'Izrail would operate by
206 5, 7 | into good things." 5~One said, "The world would be a pleasant
207 5, 7 | they really are!" 6~It is said in the Hadis that on the
208 5, 8 | be lord over me?" This he said because he was one of the
209 5, 8 | union with God.~A loved one said to her lover to try him,~
210 5, 8 | and nothingness."~Pharaoh said, "I am the Truth," and was
211 5, 8 | laid low.~Mansur Hallaj said, "I am the Truth," and escaped
212 5, 10 | dagger to protect as he said, his honor, though his every
213 5, 10 | of thy street."~The man said, " That is proved false
214 5, 10 | and relented,~Wise men said, "He ought to have become
215 5, 10 | worldly illusions.~The fox said, "In my pure wine there
216 5, 10 | very mountain of wisdom,~He said of the star, " This is my
217 5, 10 | mountain as Abraham,~So that he said of the star, "This is my
218 5, 10 | before they uttered them. He said the reason of this preternatural
219 5, 10 | with men to find, as he said, a man.~The monk's search
220 5, 10 | search for a man.~The monk said, "I am searching everywhere
221 5, 10 | breath of God."~The other said, "Here are men; the bazaar
222 5, 10 | enlightened sage!"~The monk said, "I seek a man who walks
223 5, 10 | other, who was a fatalist, said, "What you seek is rare.~
224 5, 10 | the fire beneath them.~God said to Job, 'Out of my clemency~
225 5 (4) | The Prophet said, "Sit not with a disputer
226 5, 12 | got there?" The servant said, "Wine, belonging to such
227 5, 12 | such a noble." The devotee said, "What! does a follower
228 5, 12 | salutation, and Ziayi Dalaq said to him, "You seem to think
229 5, 12 | ropemakers of the village, He said to himself, "To tell an
230 5, 12 | earthly pleasures. The Prophet said, "The world is carrion,
231 5, 13 | her heart; but the dwarf said that if her heart had been
232 5, 13 | admonish the courtiers, for he said that the beauty of true
233 5, 13 | time of Bayazid. The Gueber said that he admired and envied
234 5, 13 | azzin with gifts. The Gueber said the missionary had cured
235 5, 13 | azzin's harsh voice. But he said he still retained his reverence
236 5, 13 | his wife for it, and she said the cat had eaten it. The
237 5, 13 | only half a man. Then he said to his wife, "If this half-man
238 5, 13 | is the cat?" The Gueber said this was exactly the difficulty
239 5, 13 | the "lesser warfare".~I said, "O foul and faithless passion,~
240 5, 13 | valor and self-devotion."~I said, "O bad passion, you live
241 5, 13 | sage touched his ear and said, "This is false,~But the
242 5, 13 | apostles in that city, they said, "O that my people knew
243 5, 13 | the sense in which Pharaoh said it. Fakhru-'d-Din Razi 16
244 6, Prol| the cave of silence.~He said, "At the barking and howling
245 6, Prol| scared him from the faith.~He said, "What will the Arabs say
246 6, Prol| from my religion!"~Muhammad said, "O uncle, confess the faith
247 6, Prol| strive with God for thee!"~He said, "Nay; it will be published
248 6 (4) | We said unto the angels, 'Prostrate
249 6, 1 | was best to be done. He said, "Keep the affair quiet,
250 6, 1 | girl and her mother, and said he would have no more to
251 6, 1 | And elsewhere it is said, "Whosoever shall have wrought
252 6, 2 | his business. The fowler said he was a hermit who had
253 6, 2 | health of his soul. The bird said he was surprised to see
254 6, 2 | trickery, but the fowler said he had only himself to blame
255 6, 2 | trap shook with grief.~He said, "My back is broken by the
256 6, 3 | retire on which the Prophet said, "The man is blind and cannot
257 6, 3 | of sacred history, and he said, "This martyrdom happened
258 6, 3 | the empty house.~You have said your say; now hear my answer,~
259 6, 4 | heard of this purchase he said to Abu Bakr, "Give me a
260 6, 5 | facts of the case the Qazi said, "This Faqir is sick to
261 6, 5 | case of another. The Qazi said that, for his part, he recognized
262 6, 5 | opportunities in life.~Well said that Leader of mankind,~
263 6, 5 | to be overcome.~The Sufi said, "The Great Helper is able~
264 6, 5 | temptations of Iblis?"~The Qazi said, "If there were no bitter
265 6, 5 | by veils without color.~I said "born," but in reality they
266 6, 6 | with all your might;~It said, 'Adjust an arrow,' not '
267 6, 7 | dream was the best. The Jew said that he had dreamed that
268 6, 7 | the angels. The Christian said he had dreamed that 'Isa
269 6, 7 | heavens. Finally the Mosalman said that the Prophet Muhammad
270 6, 7 | knowledge of God.~The Mosalman said, "O my friends,~My lord,
271 6, 7 | Muhammad, appeared to me~And said, 'The Jew has hurried to
272 6, 7 | the divine sweets!"~They said to him, "Then you have been
273 6, 7 | uses of chastisements.~He said, "Alms of mercy repel calamity, 4~
274 6, 7 | it. The raven's friends said to him, "How is it you managed
275 6, 7 | with one another.~The mouse said, "One end must be tied to
276 6, 7 | talent. Accordingly one said he could hear what the dogs
277 6, 7 | could hear what the dogs said when they barked; another
278 6, 7 | without fail next day; another said his talent lay in the strength
279 6, 7 | walls of houses another said he could divine by his sense
280 6, 7 | gold was hidden; another said his wrist was so strong
281 6, 7 | night at once knew him, and said to the others, "This is
282 6, 7 | others, "This is the man who said his talent lay in his beard!"
283 6, 8 | he recovered himself he said, "O God,~I have sinned in
284 6, 9 | broken reed. The Prophet said, "Two there are who are
285 6, 9 | her confidants.~When she said, "The wax is melted by the
286 6, 9 | wroth with me."~So when she said, "See, the moon is risen!"~
287 6, 9 | forth leaves;"~Or if she said, "The leaves quiver in the
288 6, 9 | as it burns;"~Or if she said, "The rose tells her tale
289 6, 9 | love-strain;"~Or if she said, "Ah! what a blessed lot!"~
290 6, 9 | heart's repose?"~Or if she said, "The water-carrier hath
291 6, 9 | from the clouds;"~Or if she said, "Last night the victuals
292 6, 9 | perfectly cooked;"~Or if she said, "My bread is without savor"~
293 6, 9 | the wrong way;~Or if she said, "My head aches with pain,"~
294 6, 9 | believed him, and one of them said, "You must be a fool to
295 6, 9 | Him, even as the Prophet said, "My servant is a lute which
296 6, 9 | poor, and one day the dwarf said to his wife, "God has given
297 6, 9 | Qazi a second time; but he said, "Begone; I have escaped
298 6, 9 | Spiritual Beloved.~Then he said, "Though she lacks clothes
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