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1 1, Prol| plaintive notes have moved men and women to tears.~I burst
2 1 (3) | and "Ripe" are terms for "Men of externals" and "Men of
3 1 (3) | Men of externals" and "Men of heart" or Mystics. ~
4 1, 2 | there are many demons with men's faces,~It is wrong to
5 1, 3 | teacher. Only a few discerning men divined his treachery ;
6 1, 4 | than these second causes.~Men's minds recognize these
7 1, 5 | Though ye count yourselves men, see, ye are women.~The
8 1, 5 | heaven.~The knowledge of men of external sense is a muzzle~
9 1, 5 | is not seen ; reasoning men are seen;~But our forms (
10 1 (10)| II. Story XII., infra.). Men seek wisdom, and do not
11 1, 6 | pearls, big and little.~These men also resemble the musk deer'
12 1, 6 | no actions proceeded from men,~How could you say, 'Why
13 1, 7 | Are very pearls, though men deem them mere tears.~'Tis "
14 1, 7 | pervadest the spirits of all men and women;~When man and
15 1, 7 | the condition of common men,~Stumble not at severity
16 1 (8) | referred to in the text: "O men, fear your Lord, who hath
17 1, 9 | no beginning and no end.~Men subdued by women's wiles.~
18 1, 9 | them "fair in the sight of men;" 1~From her whom God has
19 1, 9 | dominion~Over sages and over men of heart,~But that fools,
20 1, 9 | and kings beat drums,~And men beat cymbals because of
21 1, 9 | exceeding diligence,~That men may think him drunk with
22 1, 9 | For the vain babble (of men)?'~The commands of God then
23 1, 9 | the thorn's shame,~That men may not see the bloom of
24 1, 10 | It was the custom of the men of Qazwin to have various
25 1, 10 | sky,~For from his light men and angels draw life.~That
26 1, 10 | aid of the might of holy men.~The hand of the Director
27 1, 12 | that Not-being,~Wealthy men show their liberality on
28 1, 13 | Is audible by the ears of men of heart!~Tho philosopher,
29 1, 13 | says that the flashes of men's morbid imaginations~Instil
30 1, 13 | Instil many vain fancies into men's minds.~But, on the contrary, '
31 1, 14 | schools.~The knowledge of men of heart bears them up,~
32 1, 14 | them up,~The knowledge of men of the body weighs them
33 1, 15 | and the destinies of all men, whether bound to heaven
34 1, 15 | will be manifest to all men whether a soul belongs to
35 1, 15 | knowledge of his to all men, or hold his peace. The
36 1, 15 | instructed him that all men are masters of their own
37 1, 15 | last day, in order to leave men till then under the stimulus
38 1, 15 | compared to the dark souls of men.~Therefore is my light weak,
39 2, 1 | unprofitable conduct~Is that men cast away honor for a morsel
40 2, 1 | would be as deceitful as we men are. 6~If a pair of scales
41 2, 2 | you are at peace with all men. In answer to an objection
42 2, 2 | themselves, just as sick men quarrel with the physician
43 2, 2 | test the dispositions of men, that the good may be severed
44 2, 2 | of saints, and of holy men are ordained, as so many
45 2, 5 | abasement of the body brings men nearer to union with the
46 2, 6 | angel on the left hand,~Men hope for the bliss of the
47 2 (4) | which are needed to guide men's religious flight (see
48 2, 7 | words, but a burning heart. Men's ways of showing devotion
49 2, 7 | Thou hast come to draw men to union with me,~Not to
50 2, 7 | my people.~I created not men to gain a profit from them,~
51 2, 7 | beneficence upon them.~In the men of Hind the usages of Hind
52 2, 7 | are praiseworthy,~In the men of Sind those of Sind.~I
53 2, 8 | game and quarry of good men,~A good man seeks in the
54 2, 8 | of the Red Sea before all men,~That ye might escape the
55 2, 8 | What is it that charms vain men but vanity?~What else pleases
56 2, 11 | saying how hard it was that men and women should blame him
57 2, 11 | desire of right that makes men buy wrong;~Let poison be
58 2, 13 | they strive to oppress holy men of heart.~But the former
59 2, 13 | they took them for ordinary men.~In you also abide the morals
60 2, 13 | abide the morals of those men of old;~How can you avoid
61 2, 13 | that you are one with those men, how can you escape?~
62 2, 16 | he eats more than twenty men and when he sleeps he is
63 2, 16 | recognized for truth by men of clear wit. ~The nearness
64 2, 17 | essence of religion, leads men into error and delusion.
65 2 (3) | xxvii. 16: "Solomon said, O men, we have been taught the
66 3, 1 | bleed."~Evil deeds give men's prayers an ill savour
67 3, 1 | come hither!" ~At last men said, "O Prophet, this call
68 3, 2 | Isa was the banquet of men of heart,~Ho! afflicted
69 3, 2 | wound the hearts of the men of heart.~Quick! clasp them
70 3, 2 | How can it be right in men?~God Almighty Himself makes
71 3, 2 | led astray by faithless men, ~Turn now from thy evil
72 3, 2 | pillory. ~If all the evil men were not tested, ~Every
73 3, 3 | charms of the daughters of men. 2~:~
74 3, 4 | faithful!~But how can base men attain this wish?~It requires
75 3, 4 | And a hundred thousand men were slain by his serpent, ~
76 3, 5 | occur not to a man in pain."~Men in pain have no time for
77 3, 7 | different from the praises of men, and those of a Sunni different
78 3, 8 | the innate capacities of men vary very greatly.~
79 3, 9 | reassured him, saying that men were not to blame, as God
80 3, 11 | least is notorious to all men,~That the world obeys the
81 3, 12 | lights never before seen of men, for "God directs whom He
82 3, 12 | assumed the likeness of seven men. Afterwards these seven
83 3, 12 | Afterwards these seven men changed into seven trees;
84 3, 12 | again changed into seven men, and Daquqi was appointed
85 3, 12 | any fault,~Severed from men and women, though not for
86 3, 12 | benedictions of righteous men ~The praises of all the
87 3, 12 | figures are borrowed from it. ~Men never address praises but
88 3, 12 | of hell in sight of all men."~Thus, even here, in the
89 3, 12 | Saying, "Disclose us to men, O hand and foot!"~And since
90 3, 12 | proclaim thy sins, ~All men are cognizant of thy sin-burnt
91 3, 13 | fools comes the story of the men of Saba. "A sign there was
92 3, 13 | their ingratitude." 1 The men of Saba were all fools,
93 3, 13 | lose. In fact, all these men of Saba were afflicted with
94 3, 13 | were not listened to, the men of Saba questioning their
95 3, 13 | at the effrontery of the men of Saba in misapplying parables
96 3, 13 | reminded them that wicked men had flouted the prophet
97 3, 13 | demonstrated at length how the men of Saba had misapplied the
98 3, 13 | them to believe. But the men of Saba continued refractory,
99 3, 13 | Fatalists or Compulsionists.~The men of Saba said, "O preachers,
100 3, 13 | earnestly you find them."~The men of Saba replied, "O men,
101 3, 13 | men of Saba replied, "O men, these pains of ours ~Are
102 3, 13 | disapproving His works."~The men of Saba replied, "If ye
103 3, 13 | O our Lord!" ~For base men are purified when they suffer
104 3, 13 | have not created Jinns and men but to worship me." ~The
105 3, 13 | Though the object of all men's being is wisdom, ~Yet
106 3, 13 | blowing into a lattice?~Men are moved by God's decree
107 3, 13 | Proclaim' we must obey. 11~O men, ye know not to which party
108 3, 15 | of animals, for, he said, men used their language only
109 3, 15 | according to their food."~Men inspired of God are the
110 3, 15 | are the fountain of life;~Men of delusions are a synonym
111 3, 15 | prudence.~If all dissolute men were shut up in prison,~
112 3, 16 | go out to battle like the men. On looking again, the woman
113 3, 16 | Though common to ordinary men, is not universal; ~Because
114 3 (2) | cast into the eyes of the men of Mecca at Beder. ~
115 3, 17 | Satan's treachery to the men of Mecca at the battle of
116 3, 17 | toiling through ages, ~Just as men labor to provide food for
117 3, 17 | weeping sadly, smiling sadly, ~Men and women, small and great,
118 3, 17 | wept in concert with him; ~Men and women mingled together
119 3, 18 | you are sincere." 1 The men of the city warned him again
120 3, 18 | destruction, as he tempted the men of Mecca at the battle of
121 3, 18 | potherbs become the food of men, ~They rise above the grade
122 3, 18 | mysteries, ~Whereto holy men direct their attention; ~
123 3, 18 | several state, ~Whereto the men of heart ascend in their
124 4, 1 | him to reflect how often men "hate the things that are
125 4, 1 | saying, that though no men 'were present, yet the wind
126 4, 1 | yourself in the sight of men, but have no scruple to
127 4, 1 | They were poison to most men, but sweets to him,~Because
128 4, 1 | above" what is said by evil men. 4~I knew you before I met
129 4, 2 | In like manner the more men grasp at the transitory
130 4, 2 | their revolutions~Is what men sing with lute and voice.~
131 4, 2 | fairies are invisible to men.~His substance was hid from
132 4, 2 | His substance was hid from men, though he was with them,~
133 4, 2 | with them,~For what can men see save the outward aspect
134 4 (15)| There is a Hadis, "Speak to men according to the amount
135 4, 2 | treasure and thy kingdom?~How men and demons helped Solomon
136 4, 2 | foundations of the temple,~Men and Jinns came and lent
137 4, 2 | follow the road of devotion.~Men are as demons, and lust
138 4, 2 | anxieties.~Deem not that these men have no chain upon them.~
139 4, 2 | You battle like twenty men against those~Who give you
140 4, 2 | dissuades me from it but men of no account?"~Does a man
141 4, 2 | cause, O son, the Prince of men declared,~"The majority
142 4, 2 | to be found where He is. ~Men of wisdom direct their reason
143 4, 4 | to Bayazid, thousands of men and women, ~Saying, "The
144 4, 4 | gold, ~And sold as gold to men of slender wits. ~We who
145 4, 4 | straightway dubbed faithful by men of externals. ~Therefore
146 4, 6 | truth. On the other hand, men of spiritual insight, whose
147 4, 6 | it is said that when holy men pray to be delivered from
148 4, 6 | In this stable asses and men alike ~Are deprived of peace
149 4, 6 | night, the Sustainer of men?' ~He answered, 'Without
150 4, 7 | vengeance' only express men's partial and weak views
151 4, 7 | not such names as ordinary men use, clad in the dress of
152 4, 7 | links to connect ordinary men with God, but he who hears
153 4, 7 | Almighty, "Why hast Thou made men to destroy them?" 5~Moses
154 4, 7 | makest charming forms, both men and women;~Wherefore, then,
155 4, 8 | is stopped with doubt.~To men of illusions these tales
156 4, 8 | are mere good tidings,~But men of knowledge deem them not
157 4, 8 | then, of course, very old men. They met him, and asked
158 4, 8 | mere good tidings to the men of opinion was the "ready
159 4, 8 | money of their state" to men of real knowledge.~:~
160 4, 9 | this world. For this cause, men having only partial reason
161 5, 1 | with you."~Each of these men lavishes his wealth or pains,~
162 5, 1 | And giving a bad name to men who fast and are liberal;~
163 5, 1 | bounty all partake, both men and women,~Thou art ungrudging
164 5, 1 | compared to the bewilderment of men in the dark looking in all
165 5, 1 | discourse on the thesis that all men can recognize the mercies
166 5, 1 | vice versa, and it is only men of deep spiritual discernment
167 5, 1 | concealment is to try and test men's dispositions; according
168 5, 2 | tazilites, 1 mentioned, that all men's intellects are alike and
169 5, 2 | order to make probation of men, as already explained, God
170 5, 2 | salutary. On the other hand, if men try to deceive God, they
171 5, 3 | itself caught by a cat. Men are so intent on their own
172 5, 3 | bread again into the life of men;~Thou who madest the erring
173 5, 3 | the erring soul a guide to men,~And him that erred from
174 5, 3 | Thou makest some earth-born men as heaven,~And muitipliest
175 5, 4 | despised and rejected of men, and the king is God Almighty,
176 5, 4 | true heart amongst evil men.~Satan's snares for mankind.~
177 5, 4 | these,~In order to bind men in my twisted rope~So firmly
178 5, 4 | adorers, who are valiant men~May not, man-like, break
179 5, 4 | of women,~Which bereaves men of reason and self-control,~
180 5, 5 | entirely thrown away on worldly men, who only desire to hear
181 5, 5 | and when they see pious men prospering they envy them,
182 5, 5 | people~Burn up wealth and men through envy!~See the kings
183 5, 6 | mirrors whereby to instruct men, being Himself all the time
184 5, 6 | saints and prophets; and men, when they hear the words
185 5, 6 | road know the thoughts of men?~How far its fancies are
186 5, 6 | these whelps were like the men who have not emerged into
187 5, 7 | make him very hateful to men; but God said 'Izrail would
188 5, 7 | disease and sickness, and men would not look for any cause
189 5, 10 | saying that God had given men hands to use and not to
190 5, 10 | speedily met his doom.~.~Men who make professions of
191 5, 10 | magicians) 5 and relented,~Wise men said, "He ought to have
192 5, 10 | shown himself so stupid. Men without understanding are
193 5, 10 | understanding are not really men at all, but only simulacra
194 5, 10 | only simulacra or forms of men. For lack of understanding
195 5, 10 | through a bazaar crowded with men to find, as he said, a man.~
196 5, 10 | The other said, "Here are men; the bazaar is full;~These
197 5, 10 | is full;~These are surely men, O enlightened sage!"~The
198 5, 10 | but ignore the root.~We men are but branches, God's
199 5, 11 | hold that God is pulling men one way and Satan another
200 5, 12 | a very Satan, and steals men's wits. Your wits are not
201 5, 13 | not deserve the name of men. When anger or lust takes
202 5, 13 | make a fair show before men.~Its movements and its rest
203 5 (5) | endure the sight of the sun, men cannot at once endure the
204 5 (7) | Ideas and types lead men on to actual sight when
205 5, 13 | beauty of the Beloved.~To all men whose creed is lust and
206 5, 13 | mercifully, for He created men "for their own benefit,
207 6, Prol| does before soul.~Fear of men's censure the greatest obstacle
208 6, Prol| triest me; O give me aid!~For men are as women through this
209 6, Prol| from self-consciousness,~Men incur the reproach of wine
210 6, 1 | equalled those of thirty men. The courtiers replied that
211 6, 3 | occupations veils the Truth from men's eyes, and they ought to
212 6, 3 | intoxication which makes men beside themselves and lifts
213 6, 3 | between their worth is great.~Men's bodies are like pitchers
214 6, 3 | the body overtakes you. Men who put off repentance till
215 6, 3 | its disposal. Spiritual men must continue urging the
216 6, 4 | great contrast to ordinary men, who are ever giving way
217 6, 4 | These guests are a type of men who lower themselves from
218 6, 5 | point out that when wise men recognize the true relative
219 6, 5 | temperate, gentle, or liberal men~If there were no cursed
220 6, 6 | these spiritual states in men, philosophers and learned
221 6, 6 | philosophers and learned men, wise in their own conceit,
222 6, 6 | than your neck-vein.' "2 Men overlook the spiritual treasures
223 6, 6 | Hud or Heber.~God rules men by alternations of hope
224 6, 6 | sun's heat;"~Till those men hasted to listen to the
225 6, 7 | Those two clever and learned men have ascended,~And read
226 6, 8 | the corollary that often men whose outward forms are
227 6, 8 | the poor and helpless than men still living in the body.
228 6, 9 | follow troubles," 16 and how "Men hate what is good for them," 17
229 6, 9 | answer to prayer, and allows men to remain poor and hungry
230 6, 9 | the guide and support of men at sea.~This Silence which
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