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1 1, Prol| neither soul from body,~Yet no man hath ever seen a soul."~
2 1 (5) | All phenomenal existences (man included) are but "veils"
3 1, 1 | The Friend,'~Like a sick man who has strayed from his
4 1, 1 | Speak out, and vex me not, O man of many words!~Strip off
5 1, 2 | parrot saw a bald-headed man passing the shop, and recovering
6 1, 3 | awake is treason.~The more a man is awake, the more he sleeps (
7 1, 3 | is enjoyed by the carnal man~Yields no fruit, even as
8 1, 3 | the Master of all;~Be a man, and not another man's beast
9 1, 3 | Be a man, and not another man's beast of burden!~Follow
10 1, 4 | will generate more, like man and woman.~The flint and
11 1, 4 | First Cause, O righteous man!~For that Cause precedes
12 1, 5 | they related a story of a man who got Solomon to transport
13 1, 5 | into conflict with thee.~Man should be as dead before
14 1, 5 | snake and meet a dragon.~Man plans a stratagem, and thereby
15 1, 5 | in forms.~If the form of man were all that made man,~
16 1, 5 | of man were all that made man,~Ahmad and Abu Jahl would
17 1, 5 | painting on a wall resembles a man,~But see what it is lacking
18 1, 5 | to that mere semblance of man.~Go! seek for that pearl
19 1, 5 | Reason!~Yea, the Reason of man is a boundless ocean.~O
20 1 (9) | Koran viii. 17); i.e., Man's reason proceeds from God,
21 1 (11)| which God "breathed into man" (Koran xv. 29). "In yourselves
22 1, 6 | s agency reconciled with man's freewill.~The ambassador
23 1, 6 | from God's impulsion that man chooses one of the two.~
24 1 (1) | freewill and compulsion of man's will (see Gulshan i Raz,
25 1, 6 | opens the eyes of the inner man.~Things hidden and things
26 1 (3) | independently of sense and reason, man possesses an inward sense,
27 1, 6 | the power of the soul, O man of right views!~Then what
28 1, 6 | soul, O son?~Flesh-born man by force of soul~Cleaves
29 1, 6 | then, God's action and man's action;~Know, action does
30 1, 7 | from all harm 1.~As to a "man of heart," he takes no hurt,~
31 1 (1) | d-Din Attar, "Thou art a man of lusts, O fool! In dust
32 1 (1) | dust eat blood! but if a man of heart eats poison, 'tis
33 1, 7 | is folly.~Whatever a sick man eats is a source of sickness,~
34 1, 7 | to a grain of wheat,~But man's jealousy is but empty
35 1, 7 | jealousy is in God,~And man's jealousy is only an offshoot
36 1 (3) | Verily Sa'd is a jealous man, and I am more jealous than
37 1, 7 | all men and women;~When man and woman become one, Thou
38 1, 7 | behold Thee?~Can mind of man conceive Thy frowns and
39 1, 8 | burial-ground, and relieve an old man whom he should find there. '
40 1, 9 | in the heart of that poor man.~Since the man was the slave
41 1, 9 | that poor man.~Since the man was the slave of her fair
42 1, 9 | God has adorned how can man escape?~Since He created
43 1, 9 | Such is the peculiarity of man,~He cannot withstand animal
44 1, 9 | crooked things straight!"~Man and wife types of the spirit
45 1, 9 | Allah illumes his senses,~A man is no longer a slave to
46 1, 9 | kindles a flame in the inward man,~He burns, and is freed
47 1 (9) | embodied in Adam, the "Perfect Man," or Microcosm. ~
48 1, 9 | dependents and parasites, O man!~He is the perfect world,
49 1, 10 | STORY X. The Man who was Tattooed.~It was
50 1, 10 | under the shadow of the Man of Reason, 1~Thou canst
51 1, 10 | the traditionists.~That man enjoys close proximity to
52 1, 10 | hidden in the form of a man,~Understand me! Allah knows
53 1, 10 | dear friend of God!~Every man takes refuge in some form
54 1, 10 | in the shadow of the wise man,~That thou mayest escape
55 1, 10 | Though he slay a young man, heave not a sigh.~God declares
56 1, 11 | a fox, but myself."~Till man destroys "self" he is no
57 1, 11 | true friend of God.~Once a man came and knocked at the
58 1, 11 | fiery flames."~The poor man went away, and for one whole
59 1, 13 | mark, as those of the deaf man who went to condole with
60 1, 13 | Because thou art a fine man in thy own sight;~But when
61 1, 15 | against Satan.~If every man had strength of eyesight~
62 1, 15 | clouds and shadows,~' I am a man, yet it hath been revealed
63 2, 1 | Beast~After anecdotes of the man, in the time of 'Omar, who
64 2, 1 | angels as to the creation of man, of a king who lost his
65 2, 1 | the house of a poor old man, and of Shaikh Ahmad Khizrawiya
66 2, 1 | and raisins;~If you are a man, cast away these things.~
67 2, 1 | taught not to that foolish man~The words of power whereby
68 2, 1 | strokes of the King's hand.~O man of double vision, 5 hearken
69 2, 1 | averts its face from you, O man of sin,~Wisdom breaks away
70 2, 1 | transaction, being a wise man."~The Sufi said, "They were
71 2, 1 | closes up the ears.~Every man subject to greed is a miser.~
72 2, 2 | Fancies that some other man bears him ill-will;~Saying
73 2, 2 | follows an anecdote of a man who slew his mother because
74 2, 3 | with the tradition, "Every man is hidden under his own
75 2, 3 | vileness. "The safety of a man lies in holding his tongue."~
76 2, 5 | STORY V. The Thirsty Man who threw Bricks into the
77 2, 5 | into the Water.~A thirsty man discovered a tank of water,
78 2, 5 | comes an anecdote of a dirty man who refused to bathe because
79 2, 7 | by the true inner reason, man sees that the body is only
80 2, 7 | does not take a drunken man as a guide on the way,~Nor
81 2, 7 | is not banished from the man who is subject to it.~O
82 2, 8 | STORY VIII. The Man who made a Pet of a Bear. 1~
83 2, 8 | Pet of a Bear. 1~A kind man, seeing a serpent overcoming
84 2, 8 | sensible of the kindness the man had done him that he followed
85 2, 8 | might annoy him. One day the man was lying asleep, and the
86 2, 8 | occur anecdotes of a blind man, of Moses rebuking the worshippers
87 2, 8 | quarry of good men,~A good man seeks in the world only
88 2, 8 | me,~But where is the base man who accepts the truth?~What
89 2, 8 | the cave became a son of man. 6~When good Abu Bakr saw
90 2, 10 | of adversity.~ ~~The sick man said, "Sickness has brought
91 2, 10 | Prophet said to that sick man,~"Pray in this wise and
92 2, 10 | blandishments, ~How, O wise man, can you get relief from
93 2, 11 | was awakened by a strange man. Mo'avia asked him who he
94 2, 11 | value of sighs.~A certain man was going into the mosque,~
95 2, 11 | there were no faults, one man could judge as well as another.~
96 2, 12 | concealed, when the doomed man discovered their object,
97 2, 13 | STORY XIII. The Old Man and the Physician.~ ~~An
98 2, 13 | the Physician.~ ~~An old man complained to his physician
99 2, 13 | caused by old age." The old man next complained of a defect
100 2, 13 | due to old age. The old man went on to say that he suffered
101 2, 13 | caused by old age. The old man, losing patience, said, "
102 2, 14 | contrary. I am a very poor man; all the riches my learning
103 2, 15 | STORY XV. The Man who boasted that God did
104 2, 15 | with the smoke.~But if a man of Rum does blacksmith's
105 2, 16 | relative, what is excess in one man being moderation in another,
106 2, 16 | to him."~To the spiritual man the "inner voice" is its ~
107 2, 16 | When you say to a thirsty man, 'Come quickly; ~This is
108 2, 16 | drink it,' ~Does the thirsty man say, 'This is a vain pretension; ~
109 2, 16 | soul's ear ~Heard from any man the like of that cry. ~That
110 2, 16 | of that cry. ~That poor man in that strange sweet voice ~
111 2, 17 | of life. A certain wise man related that in Hindustan
112 2, 17 | seeks names, if he is a man of credulity,~Like thee,
113 2, 17 | between them. At last a wise man who knew all their languages
114 2, 18 | to outward view "He is a man like you," 2~While to his
115 2 (2) | Say, in sooth I am only a man like you. It hath been revealed
116 3, 1 | stink like onions when a man speaks.~Though thou swearest,
117 3, 1 | impure mouth remain!"~The man whose calling "O Allah"
118 3, 1 | long wilt thou babble, O man of many words? ~No answer
119 3, 1 | calling upon Him?" ~The man said, "The answer 'Here
120 3, 2 | seek of him a sign. ~When a man makes pretension to be a
121 3, 3 | pretenders, follows. A proud man who lacked food procured
122 3, 3 | skin of fat, and so the man's false pretences were exposed.
123 3, 4 | and combat,~Like a valiant man will God requite you with
124 3, 4 | you with union.~When that man cherished that snake,~That
125 3, 5 | and argument 3.~A certain man whose hair was half gray
126 3, 5 | do you choose, ~For the man of faith knows not how to
127 3, 5 | thoughts occur not to a man in pain."~Men in pain have
128 3, 5 | to your imagination. ~The man in pain cares only for the
129 3, 5 | faith, ~He is aware only of man and his work. ~He set's
130 3, 6 | religious raptures is but a man;~Sometimes his rapture is
131 3, 7 | STORY VII. The Man who prayed earnestly to
132 3, 7 | prophet David there was a man who used to pray day and
133 3, 7 | but the truly spiritual man knows the truth.~Knowledge
134 3, 7 | any one but the spiritual man,~Who has in his heart a
135 3, 9 | disgrace. ~If he sees a pious man he cries, "O sir, ~Aid me,
136 3, 10 | STORY X. The Old Man who made no Lamentation
137 3, 10 | comes the story of the old man who wept not for the death
138 3, 10 | death of his sons.~An old man who was noted for sanctity,
139 3, 11 | replied, "I fare like a man who directs the course of
140 3, 11 | becomes the pleasure of man,~Then man desires the fulfillment
141 3, 11 | the pleasure of man,~Then man desires the fulfillment
142 3, 11 | the will~And commands of a man rejoicing in this disposition?~
143 3, 11 | of self-pity ~Make that man to be endued with salvation. ~
144 3, 12 | circumstances. ~That well-meaning man goes wrong through his mistake; ~
145 3, 12 | lusts to their sorrow.~The Man in the time of the Prophet
146 3, 12 | David was staggered at the man's assurance, and finally
147 3, 12 | the day of judgment. 4~O man whose only handiwork is
148 3, 12 | fire, ~Which say, "See me a man destined to the fire; ~I
149 3, 13 | others; the sharp-eared deaf man hears death approaching
150 3, 13 | and the long-robed naked man is he who fears robbers,
151 3, 13 | upon our hearts,' 3~And no man can overcome the Creator.~
152 3, 13 | a kindness to a generous man, 'tis fitting, ~For each
153 3, 13 | When you treat a base man with scorn and contumely, ~
154 3, 13 | Whereas the object of man's being is to worship God, ~
155 3, 13 | worship for the proud; 5~Man has the power to engage
156 3, 13 | being is wisdom, ~Yet each man has a different place of
157 3 (13)| Nothing shall be reckoned to a man save that for which he hath
158 3, 15 | STORY XV. The Man who asked Moses to teach
159 3, 15 | language of animals.~A certain man came to Moses and desired
160 3, 15 | and dogs. Next morning the man went amongst the fowls,
161 3, 15 | Why freewill is good for man.~God said, "Do thou grant
162 3, 16 | of the Prophet advising a man who complained of being
163 3, 16 | an army? ~The sand was in man's hands, the casting was
164 3, 17 | of life. ~That murdered man leapt up from his deadness ~
165 3, 17 | as an animal and arose a man. ~Why then should I fear
166 3, 17 | shall die once again as a man ~To rise an angel perfect
167 3, 17 | passes the conception of man! ~Let me then become non-existent,
168 3 (5) | like manner animal becomes man. See the passage of Milton
169 3, 17 | towards him.~The heart of man is like the root of a tree, ~
170 3, 17 | unaided by the other hand ~The man athirst cries, "Where is
171 3, 17 | and magnet." ~Heaven is man and earth woman in character; ~
172 3, 17 | they creep together like man and wife? ~Without the earth
173 3, 17 | instilled mutual love into man and woman,~That the world
174 3, 18 | become sweet food to revive man's life; ~Yea, become his
175 3 (8) | Flow'rs and their fruit, ~Man's nourishment, by gradual
176 4, 1 | fatal.~In the same way, O man, reckon up with intelligence~
177 4, 1 | variety.~In relation to this man Zaid is as Satan,~In relation
178 4, 1 | impudent" for a modest man,~Or "beautiful" for an ugly
179 4, 2 | voice, because he had been a man of blood. But, it was added,
180 4, 2 | Though philosophers call man the microcosm, divines call
181 4 (4) | Logos) and the "Perfect man," who is "the sum of all
182 4, 2 | Persian earth for a weight. A man came to him to buy sugar-candy,
183 4 (6) | divine grace is conveyed to man. The "change of the body"
184 4, 2 | Who goes there?~'Tis no man's step; surely 'tis a fairy."~
185 4, 2 | throne."~This was all, and no man ever saw him again,~Just
186 4, 2 | the story of the thirsty man who threw bricks into the
187 4, 2 | the peoples,~As a liberal man encompassed by the contumely
188 4, 2 | cur who attacked a blind man (Kur) in the street, rather
189 4 (20)| And every man's work have we fastened
190 4, 2 | but the supernatural in man reveals Him." 26~On cleansing
191 4 (26)| reason of the supernatural in man, which alone reveals him
192 4, 2 | engaging in those sins?~Does a man feel such pleasure in acting
193 4, 2 | men of no account?"~Does a man acting on compulsion talk
194 4 (33)| God keep us, this is no man!'" (Koran xii. 31). ~
195 4, 2 | the brutes with lust, but man he created with both reason
196 4, 2 | both reason and lust; the man who follows reason is higher
197 4, 2 | than the angels, and the man who follows lust is lower
198 4, 3 | fools are enemies to God and man, and that he who has any
199 4, 4 | myself am God Almighty."~That man of spiritual gifts being
200 4, 4 | shadow before the sun?~When a man is possessed by an evil
201 4, 4 | seems to proceed from the man's mouth.~When the spirit
202 4, 4 | is lord of spirits and of man, ~How can He be inferior
203 4, 4 | stroke took effect on that man of spiritual gifts, ~But
204 4, 4 | of thine were that of a man, ~It would have perished
205 4, 4 | of sword-wounds, like a man's." ~The man in his senses
206 4, 4 | sword-wounds, like a man's." ~The man in his senses fought with
207 4, 4 | to make choice of an old man. ~He who has emerged from
208 4, 5 | fishermen.~The marks of the wise man, of the half wise, and of
209 4, 5 | and of the fool.~The wise man is he who possesses a torch
210 4, 5 | half wise,~Knows the wise man to be the light of his eyes.~
211 4, 5 | eyes.~He clings to the wise man like a blind man to his
212 4, 5 | the wise man like a blind man to his guide,~So as to become
213 4, 5 | become possessed of the wise man's sight.~But the fool, who
214 4, 5 | own, and quits the wise man.~He knows nothing of the
215 4, 5 | counsels of the bird.~A man captured a bird by wiles
216 4, 5 | be found."~Thereupon the man, like a woman in her travail,~
217 4, 5 | drachms be within me?"~The man recovered himself and said, "
218 4, 6 | the One sole real Being. Man's body, it is true, is formed
219 4, 6 | treasure, so does the wise man, full of years and experience,
220 4, 6 | its fellow. The spirit of man is of like genus with the
221 4, 6 | with the holy prophets, but man's animal lust with the demons.
222 4, 6 | work he gets no wages;~"Man gets nothing he has not
223 4, 7 | life to the king when this man intervened. It was a moment
224 4, 7 | along with me,' 2 and this man intruded between us. I desired
225 4, 7 | mercy and vengeance. Of a man raised to this exalted state
226 4, 8 | became to him a day "when a man flees from his brethren," 2
227 4, 8 | creatures of reason.~When a man acts basely towards Universal
228 4, 8 | from the dead as a young man, whereas his sons were then,
229 4, 9 | she declared there was no man with her, and that the pear-tree
230 4, 9 | previously.~The evolution of man.~First he appeared in the
231 4, 9 | Creator, as you know,~Drew man out of the animal into the
232 4, 9 | into the human state.~Thus man passed from one order of
233 4, 9 | reasonable souls.~Though man fell asleep and forgot his
234 4, 9 | frail and impotent.~True, man's bodily senses are frail,~
235 5, 1 | there was one big and coarse man, a very giant Og, whom no
236 5, 1 | had happened, but let the man escape, so as not to put
237 5, 1 | water voided by the sick man.~Acts and words resemble
238 5, 1 | words resemble the sick man's water,~Which serves as
239 5, 1 | And thence ascertains the man's faith.~Such an one needs
240 5, 3 | accomplishments and wealth endanger man's spiritual life, like the
241 5, 3 | of lust is impossible~No man can display bravery against
242 5, 3 | Prophet, "Pity the pious man who falls into sin, and
243 5, 3 | falls into sin, and the rich man who falls into poverty,
244 5, 3 | into poverty, and the wise man who falls into the company
245 5, 4 | produced from Sabzawar a man bearing the name Abu Bakr.
246 5, 4 | the whole city a single man bearing a name so hateful
247 5, 4 | world, the poor Sunni the man of God, despised and rejected
248 5, 4 | goodliest fabric we created man, and then brought him down
249 5, 5 | STORY V. The Man who claimed to be a Prophet.~
250 5, 5 | claimed to be a Prophet.~A man cried out to the people, "
251 5, 5 | where his home was. The man replied, "O king, my home
252 5, 5 | you derive from it?" The man answered, "What profit is
253 5, 5 | accounted an enemy to God and man."~The Prophet's prayer for
254 5, 6 | behaved just like a deaf man who sees those around him
255 5, 6 | to his friend,~The deaf man who listens laughs twice
256 5, 6 | imitator is like a deaf man,~In regard to the joy he
257 5, 6 | difficult questions.~Ah! man of imitation, come out of
258 5, 6 | favors upon him;~Know this, O man pledged to vain illusions!~
259 5 (3) | Koran xvii. 72. The man of "external knowledge"
260 5, 6 | take no heed of them, O man poor in spirit!~The letters
261 5, 6 | signification.~If an ordinary man 'take a staff and try it,~
262 5, 6 | flesh and skin,~Although no man is of the same genus as
263 5, 6 | skin and bones,~Although no man resembles him in composition;~
264 5, 6 | follows an anecdote of a man who heard whelps barking
265 5, 6 | comes an anecdote of a pious man of Zarwan, who made a point
266 5, 7 | being apprehensive that the man so created would rebel against
267 5, 8 | accordance with the text, "Let man reflect out of what he was
268 5 (7) | descent of the Deity into man (Halul), or incarnation,
269 5, 9 | the day of resurrection man's hands and eyes and feet
270 5, 9 | conduct, and be went to a holy man and besought him to pray
271 5, 9 | to pray for him. The holy man, imitating the long-suffering
272 5, 9 | The prayer of that holy man was accepted, because the
273 5, 9 | the bath a truly repentant man; but soon afterwards one
274 5, 9 | path to destruction." 2~Man's members will bear witness
275 5, 9 | to evil talk."~Thus the man will be shown to be a liar
276 5, 10 | account of the weakness of man's faith. The fox replied
277 5, 10 | the Scripture, as no pious man who trusted in God was ever
278 5, 10 | resolved to seek no aid of man, and not to exert himself
279 5, 10 | words and their deeds.~A man asked a camel, saying, "
280 5, 10 | bath of thy street."~The man said, " That is proved false
281 5, 10 | lust is like a resolute man!~Of a certainty his reason
282 5, 10 | And his imitation of a man will only lead him to ruin.~
283 5, 10 | and oats like asses.~That man of cant has at his tongue'
284 5, 10 | order to gain true wisdom man must shake off worldly illusions.~
285 5, 10 | stars, ~Yea, he, that great man who threaded jewels of interpretation,~
286 5, 10 | seventy-two sects.~But the man of conviction escapes illusion;~
287 5, 10 | carnal lusts which lead man to destruction; and two
288 5, 10 | men to find, as he said, a man.~The monk's search for a
289 5, 10 | The monk's search for a man.~The monk said, "I am searching
290 5, 10 | searching everywhere for a man~Who lives by the life of
291 5, 10 | The monk said, "I seek a man who walks straight~As well
292 5, 10 | one who shows himself a man in anger and lust?~In search
293 5, 10 | there be one who is a true man in these two states,~I will
294 5, 11 | from God's sovereignty. Man cannot help moving in the
295 5, 11 | consequent responsibility of man for his actions. He urged
296 5, 11 | his actions. He urged that man's free agency and consequent
297 5, 11 | parlance, as when we order a man to act in a certain way,-
298 5, 11 | that God expressly assumes man to be a free agent by addressing
299 5, 11 | then told an anecdote of a man caught robbing a garden
300 5, 11 | existence of freewill in man. They are not intended to
301 5, 11 | Compulsionists" and the advocates of man's free agency will endure
302 5, 12 | Ziayi Dalaq, a very tall man, who had a dwarfish brother.
303 5, 12 | himself, "To tell an angry man of his faults one needs
304 5, 13 | illustration of his meaning. A man brought home a piece of
305 5, 13 | meat weighing over half a man, to provide a meal for a
306 5, 13 | all up secretly. When the man missed his meat he asked
307 5, 13 | the cat had eaten it. The man took the cat and weighed
308 5, 13 | she weighed only half a man. Then he said to his wife, "
309 5, 13 | benefit the hearers. The wise man is as a guest-house, and
310 5, 13 | praises Ayaz for being a true man who can control both lust
311 5, 13 | or lust takes hold of a man reason departs from him.
312 5, 13 | state of reason,~Does the man of reason therefore forsake
313 5, 13 | forsake reason?~And if the man of reason sees not the state
314 5, 13 | concupiscence,~And showed himself a man of the lineage of the prophets.~
315 5, 13 | mind much.~What sort of man dost thou think him who
316 5, 13 | His honored ones!" 15 A man can only say "I" with truth
317 6, Prol| sometimes not.~The worth of a man depends on the objects of
318 6, Prol| its nest,~The wings of a man are his aspiration and aim.~
319 6, Prol| knowledge is lacking in a man s nature,~His soul is like
320 6 (3) | they refused the burden. Man undertook to bear it, but
321 6, Prol| and earth, but accepted by man to his own. 6~This flux
322 6, 1 | Master's Daughter.~A certain man had a Hindu slave, whom
323 6, 1 | illustrated by an anecdote of a man who heard a footstep in
324 6, 1 | being observed, and the man remained under the impression
325 6, 1 | them by pointing out that man's responsibility and merit,
326 6, 2 | inanimate seed became a living man.~O Light on high! what is
327 6, 3 | minstrel was a spiritual man, and proceeded to improve
328 6, 3 | O God! when a spiritual man talks of wine,~How can a
329 6, 3 | How can a fellow spiritual man mistake his meaning?~Thus
330 6 (4) | cannot see it."~I.e., When man is united with God he can
331 6, 3 | without her veil, when a blind man came in. Ayisha, knowing
332 6, 3 | which the Prophet said, "The man is blind and cannot see
333 6, 3 | by signs that though the man could not see her she could
334 6, 3 | him. Just so the spiritual man is jealous of exposing his
335 6, 3 | rejoicing, not for wailing. The man who is engrossed with the
336 6, 3 | illustrated by an anecdote of a man who knocked at the door
337 6, 4 | story of Hilal, another holy man who, like Bilal and Luqman
338 6, 5 | Sufi and the Qazi.~A sick man laboring under an incurable
339 6, 5 | your doings." 1 The sick man blessed the physician for
340 6, 6 | heaven would not revolve, O man!~The abasement and exaltation
341 6, 6 | too far off.~The further a man shoots, the further off
342 6, 6 | misfortune.~Because the ignorant man is ashamed of a master,~
343 6, 7 | that this proverb meant the man who divides his allegiance
344 6, 7 | as the staff of a blind man,~Which prove only the blindness
345 6, 7 | impurity.~Strike the poor man timely blows,~Which may
346 6, 7 | good that when he saw a man at night he could recognize
347 6, 7 | the others, "This is the man who said his talent lay
348 6, 7 | illustrated by an anecdote of a man named 'Abdu'l Ghaus, who
349 6, 7 | though only an ordinary man to outward appearance.~
350 6, 8 | STORY VIII. The Man who received a Pension from
351 6, 8 | illustrated by the story of the man who was maintained by the
352 6, 8 | Prefect of Tabriz. This man incurred heavy debts on
353 6, 8 | creditors became pressing the man journeyed to Tabriz to seek
354 6, 8 | illustrated by anecdotes of a man buying bread at Kashan,
355 6, 8 | raise funds for the poor man, and appealed to the citizens
356 6, 8 | this treasure to the poor man. Thus the dead Prefect proved
357 6, 8 | were still living.~The poor man's regrets for having placed
358 6, 8 | having placed his trust in man and not in God.~When he
359 6, 8 | in the water and clay of man,~And drew forth from Not-being
360 6, 8 | heaven's dome and earth.~Man is the astrolabe of those
361 6, 8 | attributes,~The attribute of man is to manifest God's signs.~
362 6, 8 | signs.~Whatever is seen in man is the reflection of God,~
363 6, 8 | his hopes of release in man and not in God.~In like
364 6, 8 | because Joseph had looked to man for aid,~He remained in
365 6, 8 | years.~The Devil caused the man to forget Joseph,~And blotted
366 6, 8 | this fault of that holy man~God left him in the prison
367 6, 9 | according to the saying, "Man hankers after what is forbidden,"
368 6, 9 | the form be blessing, the man is thankful;~If it be suffering,
369 6, 9 | the language,~The "raw" man is ignorant of the birds'
370 6, 9 | an anecdote is told of a man of Baghdad who was in great
371 6, 9 | than the house of the poor man of Baghdad, and he straightway
372 6, 9 | spiritual pleasures than a man lacking the sense of smell
373 6, 9 | go and ensnare some rich man, so that we may extract
374 6, 9 | How strange the spiritual man is silent!"~He answers, "
375 6, 9 | my cries."~The spiritual man, as it were, cries in his
376 6, 9 | comfort;~While the carnal man at his side hears nothing
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