Part, Chapter

 1    1, 1 |          thou who art far from ' The Friend,'~Like a sick man who has
 2    1, 1 |         sensible?~Can I explain 'The Friend' to one to whom He is no
 3    1, 1 |              to one to whom He is no Friend?~Verily my singing His praise
 4    1, 1 |             veil the secrets of 'The Friend.'~So give good heed to the
 5    1, 1 |             that the secrets of 'The Friend'~Should be noised abroad
 6    1, 2 |              of the latter from "The Friend."~The health of the former
 7    1, 5 |            adage, 'The worker is the friend of God;'2~Through trust
 8    1, 6 |    recompense is either hell or 'The Friend.'"~:~
 9    1, 10|              the shadow of that dear friend of God!~Every man takes
10    1, 10|               but an eternal soul.~A friend is needed; travel not the
11    1, 11|        destroys "self" he is no true friend of God.~Once a man came
12    1, 11|           knocked at the door of his friend.~His friend said, "who art
13    1, 11|              door of his friend.~His friend said, "who art thou. O faithful
14    1, 11|           burning with grief for his friend's absence.~His heart burned
15    1, 11|             near to the house of his friend.~He knocked at the door
16    1, 11|              fall from his lips.~His friend shouted, "Who is that at
17    1, 11|            the door. O Beloved!"~The friend said, "Since 'tis I, let
18    1, 12|              a‚Žd the Mirror.~An old friend came to pay his respects
19    1, 12|             to show his respect. The friend replied that he had long
20    1, 14|      knowledge of the heart, it is a friend;~When knowledge of the body,
21    1, 16|        warned by inspiration me, his friend,~That the hand of my servant
22    2, 1 |          forth his condition.~But, O friend, think not this Sufi a mere
23    2, 1 |             that daylight means "The Friend,"~It is also a reflection
24    2, 1 |          being spoken of by God?~The Friend of God said, "I love not
25    2, 1 |             wages? The vision of The Friend.~Abu Bakr indeed offered
26    2, 2 |              his Beloved hidden.~The Friend is absent, the distraction
27    2, 6 |           fastens a door.~Since the "Friend of God" ascended above the
28    2, 8 |        wolf-like nature it becomes a friend;~Even as the dog of the
29    2, 10|           unto you. ~Abide with your Friend, since you have gone astray, ~
30    2, 16|            the voice proceeds from a friend who is near. ~The sweetness
31    2, 16|           voice of a stranger from a friend's,~To him the friend's saying
32    2, 16|          from a friend's,~To him the friend's saying seems a vain pretension, ~
33    2, 17|         laughed, and said to him, "O friend,~This is the tree of knowledge,
34    3, 2 |             have recognized me, your friend of ten years' standing,
35    3, 2 |             they are gone. ~The good friend goes up to highest heaven, ~
36    3, 2 |           departed caravan."~O brave friend, grasp His skirt, ~Who is
37    3, 4 |      necessity worked destruction, O friend;~Yea, many more mischiefs
38    3, 5 |            now as grass; ~Except the Friend none can save thee." ~He
39    3, 5 |         haste ~To a barber who was a friend of his, ~Saying, "Pluck
40    3, 12|            see the splendour of "The Friend" in human shape, the Ocean
41    3, 12|          form the splendours of 'The Friend,' ~To witness the Ocean
42    3, 13|             bite your heads, ~A kind friend will inform you of your
43    3, 18|              grow when warmed by the Friend's love. ~If vengeance follows
44    4, 2 |            of reason to love of "The Friend," ~True reason is to be
45    4, 2 |              halt on earth where no "Friend" is. ~If through bewilderment
46    4, 6 |              Then the first said, 'O friend, within me is a proof ~Which
47    4, 7 |      Courtier who quarreled with his Friend for saving his Life.~A king
48    4, 9 |             to the angel Gabriel,~"O friend, show me thy form as it
49    5, 6 |          religious exercises.~When a friend tells a joke to his friend,~
50    5, 6 |           friend tells a joke to his friend,~The deaf man who listens
51    5, 7 |             poison;~If He makes me a friend, I serve my friends.~I am
52    5, 8 |             enemy of light, Mansur a friend.~O prattler, Mansur's "I
53    5, 10|              of friends.~If a tender friend treats you roughly to try
54    5, 12|            gained no reward from his Friend;~He has done the work, but
55    5, 12|            right.~The vision of "The Friend" is far from his course,~
56    6, 7 |              to communicate with his friend at all times, he fastened
57    6, 9 |          sand was made meal for "The Friend of God," 3~Know, O master,
58    6, 9 |              love and devotion.~"The Friend" is to the lover as day
59    6, 9 | distinguishes not the veil from "The Friend's" face~Is a worshipper
60    6, 9 |              such a one beware!~"The Friend" is the real day, and daily
61    6, 9 |              his body only,~And as a friend he now goes, free of pain,
62    6, 9 |           goes, free of pain, to his Friend.~Thus at first he clung