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1 1 (1)| The poet's insistence on the doctrine
2 1, 9 | and the angels, and the poet, apropos of its disconnectedness,
3 2, 1 | for his creditors.~Why the poet veils his doctrines in fables.~
4 2, 11 | Apropos of the same theme, the poet next relates the story of "
5 2, 17 | questioners of this anecdote, the poet says we must look at its
6 3 (1)| ascribes this saying to the poet, Aqzam bin zaid. ~
7 3, 3 | pretences were exposed. The poet takes occasion to point
8 3, 8 | devised this trick, the poet takes occasion to controvert
9 3, 12 | will just described, the poet tells the story of the visions
10 4, 2 | Husamu-'d-Din, in which the poet says that his object in
11 4, 2 | Then follows a story of a poet who recited a panegyric
12 4, 2 | gave him ten thousand. The poet went to his home well contented,
13 4, 2 | sustain them in existence. The poet, therefore, again presented
14 4, 2 | large outlay, and kept the poet waiting so long for his
15 5, 1 | Beginning with gluttony, the poet tells the following story
16 5, 2 | again controverted, and the poet dwells on the essential
17 5, 3 | care to molest him. The poet proceeds to point out that
18 5, 4 | to which family both the poet's mother and grandmother
19 5, 4 | 1209, the year in which the poet's father fled from Balkh,
20 5, 4 | In this parable, says the poet, Sabzawar is the world,
21 5, 5 | hanifa, to whose school the poet belonged, that weeping,
22 5, 5 | the name Abu Hanifa, the poet recalls the text, "They
23 5, 10 | prove his faith. [Here the poet apologizes for the trivial
24 5, 10 | ass then suggests to the poet another train of reflections.
25 5, 11 | as when they began. The poet remarks that the contest
26 5, 13 | continued). Mahmud and Ayaz.~The poet now returns to the story
27 5, 13 | final revision when the poet died. The king showed to
28 6, 1 | of itself. This leads the poet again to dwell on his favorite
29 6, 2 | of the raging lion?"~The poet then passes on to the subject
30 6, 3 | even as the great saint and poet Faridu-'d-Din 'Attar cast
31 6, 3 | were thus engaged, a Sunni poet arrived at the city, and
32 6, 5 | existing present. Here the poet digresses to point out that
33 6, 5 | the Qazi replied with the poet's favorite argument that
34 6, 7 | from death and decay, the poet tells an anecdote of Sultan
35 6, 8 | compared to spirit lead the poet to the corollary that often
36 6 (2)| Realist philosophy. Here the poet runs through nearly all
37 6, 9 | freeing the Qazi reminds the poet of the saying of the Prophet, "
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