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1 1, Prol| fire be accounted dead!~'Tis the fire of love that inspires
2 1, Prol| that inspires the flute, 1~'Tis the ferment of love that
3 1, Prol| though my days vanish thus, 'tis no matter,~Do thou abide,
4 1, 1 | giving credit."~I said, "'Tis best to veil the secrets
5 1, 3 | to be God's grace, for 'tis of Him."~In one 'twas said, "
6 1, 3 | see is One.~Whoever says 'tis two is suffering from double
7 1, 4 | flint fire leaps forth;~But 'tis by God's command it thus
8 1, 4 | air will absorb it, for 'tis its supporter;~It sets it
9 1, 5 | lacking in that empty form.~'Tis life that is lacking to
10 1, 5 | master?"~He says, "True, 'tis a steed; but where is mine?"~
11 1, 5 | student of this mystery,~Lo! 'tis Husamu-'d-Din, the most
12 1, 6 | preference of one alternative;~'Tis from God's impulsion that
13 1, 6 | impatient for love's sake;~'Tis he who loves not who is
14 1, 6 | Or, if it be compulsion, 'tis not common compulsion,~It
15 1, 6 | not in the table's heart,~'Tis soul effects this transmutation
16 1 (1) | man of heart eats poison, 'tis as honey." ~
17 1, 7 | men deem them mere tears.~'Tis "The Soul of souls" of whom
18 1, 7 | God is heir of all." 7~"Tis dawn! O Protector and Asylum
19 1, 8 | But He said, "Speak on, 'tis no fault,~'Tis naught but
20 1, 8 | Speak on, 'tis no fault,~'Tis naught but the necessary
21 1, 8 | result of the hidden decree,~'Tis a fault only to him who
22 1, 8 | among a hundred beauties~'Tis as one dry stick in a garden
23 1, 8 | as a reed has partitions 'tis not privy to secrets,~Nor
24 1, 9 | discernment accrues to the sense?~'Tis when sense "sees by the
25 1, 9 | eternity,~Nor ending, for 'tis akin to world without end.~
26 1, 9 | story is not a vain fable,~'Tis the ready money of your
27 1, 11 | faithful one?"~He said, "'Tis I." He answered, "There
28 1, 11 | the door?"~He answered, "'Tis Thou who art at the door.
29 1, 11 | The friend said, "Since 'tis I, let me come in,~There
30 1, 12 | made by a good tailor,~'Tis an evidence of the tailor'
31 1, 13 | But, on the contrary, 'tis his perverseness and want
32 1, 14 | weighs them down.~When 'tis knowledge of the heart,
33 1, 15 | not to seek notoriety?~'Tis not wise to publish these
34 1, 15 | When night returns and 'tis the time of the sky's levee,~
35 1, 16 | retaliation?" 1~I answered, "'Tis from God, and 'tis God's
36 1, 16 | answered, "'Tis from God, and 'tis God's secret;~If He shows
37 1, 17 | eat it nourishes us;~When 'tis empty "form," it profits
38 1, 17 | as a green thorn;~When 'tis "form," 'tis as the dry
39 1, 17 | thorn;~When 'tis "form," 'tis as the dry and coarse thorn.~
40 2, 5 | were God's not yours". 1~'Tis God's light that illumines
41 2, 7 | purified by their praises,~'Tis they who become pure and
42 2, 8 | withhold the truth, still 'tis not hidden from him;~But
43 2, 10 | in your own death!~Since 'tis bad, whatever lust says
44 2, 10 | are drunkards or madmen, ~'Tis that Cup-bearer and that
45 2, 11 | plausibility from truth.~'Tis the desire of right that
46 2, 16 | to the seventh heaven. ~'Tis not I who companion with
47 2, 16 | who companion with you, 'tis my shadow; ~My exaltation
48 2, 16 | he eats, say ' Eat on;' 'tis lawful to him."~To the spiritual
49 2, 17 | lake, and sometimes cloud.~'Tis one, though it has thousands
50 2, 17 | is eternal life!~Though 'tis one, it has a thousand manifestations,~
51 3, 1 | azzin of better talent. ~'Tis an error at the beginning
52 3, 5 | Make not light of it, for 'tis the flood of destruction, ~
53 3, 9 | which ho seeks an exit? ~'Tis the bond of God's purpose
54 3, 9 | exists in concealment; ~'Tis more stringent than prison
55 3, 11 | Whether it be life or death, 'tis all one to him.~He lives
56 3, 12 | again joined to its whole,~'Tis a dead thing, and a stranger
57 3, 12 | what is meat untoiled for?~'Tis the food of spirits and
58 3, 13 | kindness to a generous man, 'tis fitting, ~For each kindness
59 3, 13 | caused by heat of belly.~'Tis Primal Soul that dominates
60 3, 13 | is precluded from gain; ~'Tis the lamp that takes fire
61 3, 14 | misfortune.~What is Sufiism? 'Tis to find joy in the heart~
62 3, 14 | preserve him from harm.~'Tis said, "Mourn not for your
63 3, 15 | punishment were needless,~For 'tis freewill that has merit
64 3, 16 | if he says, "I know it," 'tis not far wrong~And if he
65 3, 16 | says, "I know it not," 'tis not wrong.~Should one say, "
66 3, 16 | Thou castest not, since 'tis God who affords the strength. ~
67 3, 17 | as the eye of a needle, 'tis a wide plain;~Wherever her
68 3, 17 | be the bottom of a well, 'tis Paradise.~With thee, my
69 3, 17 | is not like that torch, ~'Tis light, light in the midst
70 3, 17 | in the midst of light, ~'Tis the reverse of torches of
71 3, 17 | the roads, ~Trace it, and 'tis tears of blood from my eyes. ~
72 3, 18 | Masnavi, is childish; ~'Tis but a story of the prophets,
73 3, 18 | the prophets, and so on. ~'Tis not an account of the arguments
74 3, 18 | seek redress is the Wind, ~'Tis he who has emitted the smoke
75 4, 1 | the qualities implied, 'tis wrong;~'Twould be jesting
76 4, 1 | to inflammation,~I know 'tis so from the pain, though
77 4, 2 | to us like a caravan. 6~'Tis not a long road that this
78 4, 2 | window, "Who goes there?~'Tis no man's step; surely 'tis
79 4, 2 | Tis no man's step; surely 'tis a fairy."~His guards, filled
80 4, 2 | swimming in the ocean; 29~'Tis no river or small stream; '
81 4, 2 | river or small stream; 'tis the mighty ocean.~Away with
82 4, 4 | see an ugly face in it, 'tis your own, ~And if you see
83 4, 4 | that he is void of form; ~'Tis your own form which is reflected
84 4, 5 | counsel on your wrist, 'tis this.~'Believe not foolish
85 4, 5 | is past and gone?'~When 'tis past and gone, why sorrow
86 4, 6 | house on lease or hired it;~'Tis not your own property to
87 4, 6 | teeth, ~So that you say, "Tis a hell and serpent's bite.' ~
88 4, 6 | honey, ~So that you say, ''Tis heaven and wine of Paradise.' ~
89 4, 6 | listen ~To what you say; 'tis only based on blind belief. ~
90 4, 7 | useless in the wheat-barn.~'Tis wrong to mix these two,~
91 5, 5 | but their love as well.~'Tis God alone who agitates these
92 5, 6 | the Shaikh's, not his.~'Tis like water in a vessel,
93 5, 8 | afterwards it holds itself dear~'Tis the same as holding the
94 5, 8 | sun dear in its heart,~'Tis clearly the same as holding
95 5, 8 | two separate 'I's,'~For 'tis then darkened and purblind,~
96 5, 8 | the mighty Sun.~Wherefore 'tis unlawful for the stone then
97 5, 10 | ever tossed to and fro.~'Tis at home on the land, but
98 5, 10 | you roughly to try you,~'Tis contrary to reason to distrust
99 5, 13 | reason, we like the tongue;~'Tis reason that teaches the
100 5, 13 | the murky night.~Just so 'tis your idea of your terrible
101 6, Prol| say it in plain words,~'Tis reason, sense, perception,
102 6, Prol| old women.~What is soul? 'Tis acquainted with good and
103 6, 7 | and inordinate science,~'Tis service of God and good
104 6, 7 | conduct that gains its end.~'Tis for this that God created
105 6, 7 | cure thy sickness, O son~'Tis not charitable to burn up
106 6, 9 | clothes of silk and wool,~'Tis sweeter to embrace her without
107 6, 9 | hundred ways to express it,~'Tis useless; the mystery becomes
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