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501 2, 6 | love a prison seems a rose bower,~Without love a grate full
502 1, 5 | forms~Float about, like bowls on the surface of water;~
503 6, 6 | Go! abandon this strong bowmanship,~Fix an arrow on the string,
504 6, 6 | did not bid you draw the bowstring to the utmost;~It did not
505 5 (2) | Cp. Bp. Butler, "On a state of
506 2, 4 | The lamp of reason in the brains of the head;~Smell in the
507 6, 6 | incur the penalty of "being branded on the nostrils," 1 adjudged
508 1, 9 | Rustum, son of Zal, and braver than Hamza,~Yet he is submissive
509 5, 4 | with these."~Iblis said, "Bravo!" but at the same time hung
510 6, Prol| consummation.~Bread-giver and bread-eater and bread itself~Are purified
511 6, Prol| ghost in that consummation.~Bread-giver and bread-eater and bread
512 1, 3 | discernment.~In their inmost breasts they planted love of him,~
513 5, 13 | this old pair of shoes?~And breathe your oft-told secrets into
514 1, 8 | vocal in response to lip and breathing.~While circumambulating
515 6, Prol| eyes and malice-empoisoned breaths~Already have I suffered
516 2, 11 | answered, "Remember that I was bred up as an angel of light,
517 2, 6 | this world of the body is a breeder of misconceptions~In all
518 4, 2 | lovers' style.~When the breeze bore Solomon's words to
519 6, 1 | with the result that the bridegroom passed the night in quarrelling
520 4, 7 | scorns the brightness of the brightest festal day. He who beholds
521 4, 6 | then deny the Creator, ~The Bringer of day and night, the Sustainer
522 4 (8) | The Dervishes," by J.P. Brown, p. 197. ~
523 6 (4) | Because, as Sir T. Browne says, "God is all things." ~
524 6, 9 | God has given you arched brows and arrowy glances and all
525 6, 9 | he is cheerful;~If it be bruising, he is full of lamentation!~
526 3, 4 | that snake,~That stubborn brute was happy in the luxury
527 3, 9 | the back of the wife of Bu Lahab, ~And she, the bearer
528 2, Prol| absence of his spring the buds blossomed not,~But when
529 6, 8 | reason).~Ah! many are the buildings visible and invisible~Which
530 1, 9 | cooing is a part of that Bulbuls music.~But if I engage in
531 3, 6 | it. I am, as it were, in Bulgaria, and the object of your
532 6, 1 | lasting impression on the bulk of mankind. When bitter
533 1, 2 | with a hundred towers and bulwarks.~Who can describe the unique
534 4, 2 | God, and straightway his bundle of firewood was changed
535 6, 7 | king, after witnessing the burglary, withdrew from them secretly,
536 1, 14 | house from all filth, and burnishing them till they were as clear
537 4, 2 | art of digging graves and burying corpses, as told in Koran
538 1 (6) | of self-denial) under a bushel. ~
539 1, 12 | A mirror is what Beauty busies itself with.~Since Not-being
540 2, 16 | to you is a garden to me.~Busiest occupation is rest to me.~
541 2, 1 | prophesying; 7~I am a guide; God buyeth my guidance for you,~God
542 4, 7 | his sword to slay him. The bystanders were all afraid to interfere,
543 5, 6 | others,~Yet the disk of a cake differs much from the moon'
544 1, 10 | difference between them is beyond calculation;~One sees the light, the
545 4, 2 | of this earth.~What thou callest a throne is only a prison;~
546 2, 5 | story of his being mad was a calumny. Zu'l Nun jumped up and
547 6 (2) | wine cup tempered at the camphor fountain shall the just
548 6, 6 | Abraham,~And their opposing camps warred and fought one another.~
549 4, 6 | crawled to the brink of a canal, where it persisted in remaining,
550 1, 16 | mystery of 'whatever verses we cancel,~Or cause you to forget,
551 1, 1 | It is not the rule of his canon to say, 'To-morrow.'~Can
552 5, 7 | remarking that, according to the canons of theological interpretation,
553 6, 8 | Thy bounty.~He gave me a cap, but Thou my head full of
554 3, 8 | Sunnis, that the innate capacities of men vary very greatly.~
555 2, 2 | instead of many eyes of caprice,~One eye may be opened through
556 1, 9 | another united;~In one aspect capricious, in another serious.~The
557 6, 8 | Ja'far Sadiq was able to capture a strong fort single-handed
558 5 (4) | reflected in the resulting caput mortuum or Not-being, as
559 6, 4 | Hilal fell sick; but no one cared for him, till the Prophet
560 3, 5 | Christian church. ~Your carelessness and injustice suggest thoughts ~
561 3, 17 | my supplications ~Is as a caress to my misguided soul. ~The
562 6, 5 | their troubles God is ever caring for His servants, and they
563 6, 8 | dome,~And spread out the carpet of the earth?~Of the stars
564 1, 5 | its father's back for its carriage.~But when it becomes independent
565 2, 14 | STORY XIV. The Arab Carrier and the Scholar.~An Arab
566 6, 6 | as is illustrated by the cases of the saint Abu-'l-Hasan
567 6, Prol| It will cause me to lose caste with them.~Yet, had the
568 3, 16 | was in man's hands, the casting was God's. ~Owing to the
569 1, 15 | given to the warder of a castle who faithfully executes
570 4, 9 | quarrels,~There it is as castration or circumcision.~~But this
571 3, 2 | were not tested, ~Every catamite would through fraud pass
572 1, 13 | leaf from fear of such a catastrophe.~Thou makest a mock of Iblis
573 5, 7 | reasoning to evade a plain and categorical injunction. He added, that
574 6 (10)| extraordinaire qui reside au Caucase," as M. Garcin de Tassy
575 2, 17 | reply to matter of fact cavillers and questioners of this
576 2, 7 | who was struck blind for cavilling at the verse, "What think
577 3, 6 | is drowned in the light cc that is not begotten,"~"
578 3, 1 | said to him, "Ah! thou hast ceased to call on God, ~Wherefore
579 3, 17 | If I speak, my weeping ceases; ~If I weep, I cease to
580 6, 6 | When he was hopeless and ceasing to pray in weariness~He
581 1, 5 | the wild ass.~It fills its cells with liquid sweets,~For
582 2, 12 | The Four Hindustanis who censured one another.~Four Hindustanis
583 2, 11 | his propositions.~A third censures both of them;~A fourth spends
584 5, 13 | God." 18 God is at once center and circumference of the
585 2 (14)| in the second and third centuries of the Flight. ~
586 2 (3) | cf. Gulshan i Raz, p. 86. ~
587 3, 10 | spirit.~Spirit unlooses the chained hands of reason; ~Yea, it
588 3, 18 | confronted his unseen foe, challenging him to show himself and
589 5, 3 | aspirations.~O Thou that changest earth into gold,~And out
590 4, 2 | Prophet Muhammed, are the channels. Thus physicians and herbalists
591 6, 2 | And began to recite the chapters "Yasin" and "An'am."~Then
592 5, 8 | things hidden in it. It is a characteristic of evildoers to think evil
593 5, 2 | essential differences which characterize the intellects akin to Universal
594 2, 3 | laid his head in the golden charger in ardour for it.~When Jethro
595 5, 10 | longer, as the money for his charities would be supplied to him
596 2, 8 | folly?~Because each kind is charmed by its own kind,~Does a
597 4, 7 | destroyest Thou them?~Thou makest charming forms, both men and women;~
598 4, 2 | engage in labor and the chase,~It forces them to toil
599 5, 3 | eunuch, 3 not a monk,~Because chastity is mortgaged to lust.~Without
600 2, 11 | sweet and good for food,~The cheat who shows wheat and sells
601 3, 16 | who complained of being cheated in his bargains to take
602 3, 13 | similitudes of curl and cheek?~Moses took his staff to
603 6, 9 | name,~She became filled and cheered by his nourishment.~Her
604 3, 17 | Whatever heaven sends it, earth cherishes. ~When earth lacks heat,
605 2, 7 | Having left Jesus, thou cherishest an ass (lust),~And art perforce
606 6, 9 | he is patient;~If it be cherishing, he is cheerful;~If it be
607 5, 12 | into a rage and threw the chessboard at his courtier's head.
608 4, 6 | he is lord of Moses, and chides Moses for his want of gratitude
609 3, 18 | at the bidding of their chiefs, and that the terrors of
610 3, 18 | This poem, the Masnavi, is childish; ~'Tis but a story of the
611 4, 1 | aware whether that wind is chill or mild, ~He is not ignorant
612 5, 4 | Balkh, and was defeated by Chingiz Khan a year or two later.
613 6, 6 | bread,~That same bread will choke you like a halter.~This
614 2, 13 | answered, "This passion and choler are also symptoms of old
615 2, 1 | feast, and joined in the chorus sung by the others, "The
616 4, 8 | secured. Accordingly he chose the daughter of a pious
617 1, 3 | fancied him to be the Vicar of Christ;~Yea, him, that one-eyed
618 3, 5 | enter mosque or Christian church. ~Your carelessness and
619 3, 15 | So that, like bees, their chyle yields life-giving food,~
620 5 (4) | Koran ci. 5. ~
621 3 (5) | eye of certainty" (Koran cii.) ~
622 3, 17 | people of Bokhara formed a circle round him. ~Talking sadly,
623 2, 10 | cloak."~The Sage said, "Circumambulate me seven times;~Count this
624 2, 10 | have seen God,~And have circumambulated the veritable Ka'ba.~To
625 4, 9 | There it is as castration or circumcision.~~But this discourse is
626 5, 13 | God is at once center and circumference of the universe, and the
627 2, 17 | very water of life from the circumfluent ocean.~Thou hast run after
628 1, 9 | springs the root of this circumstance,~From this, that the Whole
629 3, 18 | account of this in the chapter cited,~How knowledge of certainty
630 1, 9 | can they yield wine?~Till citrons be pounded up with drugs,~
631 5 (10)| Koran cix. 6. ~
632 3, 12 | reduce it to servitude.~That claimant of the cow is thy lust;
633 1, 3 | him, and to slay all other claimants of the apostolic office.
634 5, 4 | obnoxious to a Sunni prince claiming descent from the first Khahif
635 1 (6) | So Bernard of Clairvaux. See Gulshan i Raz, I. 435.~
636 5, 13 | the eyes of Majnun, made clairvoyant by love, seemed to strangers
637 5, 4 | self-control,~Then Iblis clapped his hands and began to dance,~
638 3, 2 | the men of heart.~Quick! clasp them and ask pardon of them;~
639 4, 9 | swooning with fear,~He came and clasped him in his arms.~Address
640 4 (8) | philosophers into three classes: Dahriyun, Tabayiun, and
641 4, 2 | by King Solomon when he classified the plants that grew in
642 4, 1 | dwell in the bath and in cleanliness. ~The rich are as those
643 1, 2 | dammed up the stream and cleansed the channel,~And then turned
644 3, 18 | sweetmeats,~I am become clear-sighted, and see him face to face!~
645 3, 13 | earth will to assume the clearness of pure wine?~That Person
646 1, 3 | succeed, as one faithful band cleaved to the name of "Ahmad,"
647 3, 17 | arrogant and proud; ~All clemencies are as naught to thy clemency. ~
648 4, 9 | intrigue with her paramour, climbed up a pear-tree to gather
649 5, 12 | that it is necessary to clip off somewhat of your height."
650 4, 1 | of moving, to another a clog;~To one a poison, to another
651 6, Prol| told,~In a discourse more closely approximating to the facts~
652 6, 1 | seductive at a distance, closer acquaintance with her had
653 4, 8 | we will raise them and clothe them with flesh." Ezra was
654 2, 11 | treachery of wolves in sheep's clothing, - of Satans rebuking sin
655 6, 7 | palace, and, each of them co-operating by the exercise of his peculiar
656 3, 16 | out to battle without his coat-of-mail, of the Prophet advising
657 2, 18 | the water will make us coats-of-mail.~That Solomon is present
658 1, 9 | she pleaded with gentle coaxing,~The while her tears fell
659 1, 6 | of His,~That you may be cognisant of that open secret.~Then
660 3, 2 | the common willow has no cognizance. ~The dry branch and the
661 2, 11 | in the world,~How could coiners succeed in passing false
662 4, 2 | Your good angels must place collars on their necks.~If your
663 6, 8 | him, but only succeeded in collecting a very small sum. He then
664 5 (2) | first and most esteemed collection of traditions. ~
665 6, 9 | Even as those affected by color-blindness.~Now at last our hidden
666 1, 14 | all kinds of paints, and coloured their house in the most
667 2, 7 | will clean Thy shoes and comb Thy hair, and sew Thy clothes,
668 5, 10 | camel, saying, "Ho! whence comest thou,~Thou beast of auspicious
669 1 (2) | John xiv. 26: "But the Comforter (parakletos) shall teach
670 4, 2 | messengers back with a letter commanding her to abandon the worship
671 5, 13 | tale of the sweetness of my commandments,~That the meaning of this
672 6, 6 | before the Faqir had time to commence the search the rumor of
673 4, 1 | and his mistress, already commenced in the third book. A certain
674 2, Prol| the day of "Opening."~The commencement date of this precious work~
675 6, 1 | to err," 4 and Adam was commended or saying, "We have blackened
676 6, 7 | him in person, and after commending him for his piety in saying
677 6, 4 | came to visit him, and commiserated his wretched condition.
678 1, 16 | and thus save him from the commission of that great crime; but '
679 6, Prol| matters.~Mysteries are not communicable, save to those who know;~
680 6, 7 | ardent lovers desire to be in communication with the object of their
681 3, 17 | seventy-and-two diseases; ~It is ill compacted owing to the struggle of
682 2, 9 | he who desires to hold companionship with God must not forsake
683 Note | but this is known to be a comparatively recent forgery. Haji Khalfa
684 6, 5 | this life will be amply compensated for in the life to come.
685 3, 5 | smitten part of your back, O complainer?" ~Zaid replied, "Through
686 6, 3 | There is no God," finds its complement and purpose in the affirmation "
687 3, 16 | bargains to take time before completing them, and of the death of
688 5, 7 | there were no death,~The complicated world would be worth not
689 1, 1 | importunes Jalalu-'d-Din~to compose the Masnavi.~The sun (Shams)
690 3, 17 | That it may dissolve these composite bodies of ours, ~The bird
691 5, 6 | Because from these mysterious compositions comes life,~Even as utter
692 6, 6 | abasement and exaltation of this compound body~Is now health and now
693 1, 3 | to last,~As if each was compounded of poison and antidotes.~:~
694 5, 6 | far exalted above ordinary compounds of letters;~Because from
695 1, Prol| very long;~So the "Raw" comprehend not the state of the "Ripe;" 3~
696 5, 13 | as a boy,~But who has no comprehension of these chief matters?~
697 3, 12 | up into a drop, ~The Sun compressed into a single atom; ~And
698 6, 2 | it under Thy coverlet!~O comrades, our Beloved has closed
699 2, 11 | reply, reproached him with concealing the truth, and ultimately
700 1, 13 | last this scribe became so conceited that he imagined all this
701 1, 1 | similitudes of HIM should be conceivable?~Shamsu-'d-Din of Tabriz
702 4, 8 | of a devotee who had so concentrated his thoughts on things above
703 5, 13 | O Thou who art above our conceptions and descriptions,~Dust be
704 5, 6 | grieves, but by the deep concerns of the spirit. You cannot
705 4, 8 | before you. 4~I am ever in concord with this father of ours,~
706 4, 2 | turns white without thy concurrence,~Take shame to thyself for
707 5, 13 | That priest is unable to condemn or to absolve;~But faith
708 1, 9 | coquetry makes thy heart bleed~Condescends to entreaties, how is it
709 3, 18 | that ye knew!"~Knowledge conducts you to sight, O knower!~"
710 6, 7 | and eat the sweetmeats and confections!~Those two clever and learned
711 2, 11 | stratagem of the thief's confederate, who cried that he had got
712 1, 10 | Allah!~If absent saints can confer such protection,~Doubtless
713 4, 2 | bird that reaches Mount Qaf~Confers glory on the whole family
714 4, 2 | O teach me,"~Such open confession is better than false pride.~
715 1, Prol| the wine.~The flute is the confidant of all unhappy lovers;~Yea,
716 6, 9 | her secret meaning to her confidants.~When she said, "The wax
717 1, 10 | a hero most valiant;~Yet confide not in thy lion-like valour,~
718 1, 3 | instructions in the volume secretly confided to him, and to slay all
719 3, 9 | situation.~Why, then, are you confident about the heart's purposes?~
720 1, 7 | this way of escaping from confinement in a cage.~Saints are preserved
721 1, 15 | of King Solomon, and of a conflagration in the days of the Khalifa '
722 6, 4 | not stop till I reach the confluence of the two seas, and for
723 1 (2) | 35: "Herein is divinity conformant unto philosophy, and not
724 1, 2 | the parrot's mistake in confounding baldness caused by age with
725 1, 9 | me! The people's clamour~Confounds my boast, 'I am Lord Supreme!' 5~
726 3, 18 | and thy footmen," 3 and confronted his unseen foe, challenging
727 4, 3 | Moses said, "Their sorcery confuses them;~What can I do? These
728 5, 9 | actions done by him, thus confuting his pretences to piety.
729 1, 17 | warm life of reason was congealed.~A grain of wheat eclipsed
730 3, 11 | because his very nature is congruous therewith.~He desires not
731 5, 6 | a mistake!~My feeble wit conjured up vain imaginations."~How
732 4, 7 | apostles are needed as links to connect ordinary men with God, but
733 3, 12 | a wall, ~That wall is a connecting-link between all its beams; ~
734 2, 4 | courage in the heart.~These connections are not without a why and
735 5, 13 | hast seen the delight of my connnandments,~And risked thy life to
736 3, 4 | frost you become its prey.~Conquer it and save yourself from
737 3, 4 | save yourself from being conquered,~Pity it not, it is not
738 1, 16 | resulted from those wars.~That conqueror of hearts cut off a thousand
739 5, 9 | in weighing the pros and cons in regard to pardoning the
740 6, 7 | the other two refused to consent, alleging that the Mosalman
741 1, 17 | mouth without pity,~As if conserve of roses should turn to
742 6, 3 | Thus the whole of his song consisted of repetitions of the words, "
743 4, 6 | Haman, and Asiya was fain to console herself with the reflection
744 1, Prol| hath seen a sympathetic consoler like the flute?~The flute
745 6, 7 | the frog over his folly in consorting with an animal of a different
746 4, 6 | Yet look at the Serpent (constellation) in heaven. ~This staff
747 3, 17 | And to drag apart its constituent elements. ~The four elements
748 2 (1) | the world of phenomena is constituted (see Gulshan i Raz, p. 21,
749 1, 4 | Glory.~Therefore are we constrained to utter these praises~That
750 4, 7 | knowledge~Whereby thou hast constructed a threshing-floor?"~Moses
751 6, 1 | unfortunate accident, and consulted her husband as to what was
752 1, 6 | It kindles a fire that consumes the world.~Behold, then,
753 1, 4 | s servant, and that its consuming properties were not to be
754 6, 5 | self-abnegation," and a treasury containing only the doctrines of "Unity;"
755 2, 10 | spill the water of life.~Contemn whatever praises you,~Lend
756 3, 11 | times he laughs when he contemplates God's pleasure,~God's decrees
757 3, 16 | What know I of Noah~As his contemporaries knew him?~I am a poor ant
758 5, 3 | whom he had no strength to contend against; and he had accordingly
759 6, 6 | after age these two parties contended,~Even till the time of Pharaoh
760 1, 7 | becomes faith.~Ah! footman who contendest with horsemen,~Thou wilt
761 1, Prol| not with pearls till it is content;~Only he whose garment is
762 4, 6 | place of one of enmity and contention.~(4) Perpetual youth.~Pharaoh
763 5, 10 | because the Prophet describes contentment as a treasure, and treasure
764 3, 16 | this declaration with its context, ~Remembering how you know
765 1, 5 | cease to annoy them by his continual forays. The lion was at
766 Note | Muhammad Ilahi Bakhsh, giving a continuation of the story of the third
767 1, 5 | swiftly,~It seems to the eye a continuous line of fire.~This apparent
768 5, 9 | faith and penitence when contradicted by acts are worthless, according
769 1 (2) | only generation founded on contrarieties, but also creation. God,
770 6, 2 | a Mosalman doing this in contravention of the Prophet's precept, "
771 2, 9 | they remained united, he contrived by tricks to separate them,
772 5, 13 | being a true man who can control both lust and anger. Those
773 6, 1 | other words, that he who controls and restrains himself from
774 4, 6 | question, ~Yea, in dispute and controversy and argument. ~At last a
775 3, 8 | the poet takes occasion to controvert the opinion of the Mu'tazalites,
776 5, 2 | equal at birth, is again controverted, and the poet dwells on
777 2, 16 | Gluttonous Sufi.~In a certain convent there lived a Sufi whose
778 2, 10 | whom he held the following conversation:~The Sage said, "Whither
779 5, 3 | temperate and meek.~O Thou that convertest salt earth into bread,~And
780 1, 5 | speech from the thought they convey.~The sound and speech arise
781 6, 9 | land,~It is the special conveyance of voyagers by sea.~Silence
782 1 (3) | sense, or intuition, which conveys to him a knowledge of God
783 5, 9 | every guilty one will be convicted by himself.~Hand and foot
784 3, 12 | to thee,~"Tell forth thy convictions, withhold them not;"~Especially
785 3, 8 | looking pale, and offered to convince him by bringing a mirror;
786 1, 9 | beauty,~But the turtle-dove's cooing is a part of that Bulbuls
787 3, 17 | boil on the fire like a cooking-pot, ~From morn till eve I drink
788 1, 4 | power to burn me; it is as cool as water!" Hearing this,
789 3, 18 | pops his head out of his coop, ~And displays himself as
790 3, 2 | lover of God, ~But thou hast coquetted with the evil demon. ~The
791 6, Prol| bright and fresh sprays of coral,~And the princely fruits
792 6, 8 | spirit lead the poet to the corollary that often men whose outward
793 4, 2 | digging graves and burying corpses, as told in Koran v. 34.
794 2, 14 | read his thoughts, and thus corrected his false impressions. He
795 4, 6 | staff for the purpose of correcting ~Every ass who does not
796 6, 1 | to supply the necessary corrective of this doctrine, another
797 3, 13 | Our evil presages ~Are corroborated by the state of your souls. ~
798 5, 4 | succulent and sweet and costly wines,~And also store of
799 5, 13 | ought to be obeyed at all costs, and therefore broke the
800 1, 15 | raise its head from its couch;~To the unconscious God
801 5, 11 | breath and repress your coughs,~So as not to scare that
802 4, 5 | ignorance cannot be patched.~O counselors, waste not the seed of counsel
803 2, 11 | in the sight of God, have counted for as many as two hundred
804 4, 2 | placing on his throne a false counterpart of him. His miracle working
805 6, 8 | but Thou my hand which counts it;~He gave me a horse,
806 3 (4) | The four last couplets are omitted in the Bulaq
807 6, 5 | temperate or O meek one!'~Or, 'O courageous one, or O wise one?'~How
808 4, 8 | having been beguiled by~a Courtesan, returned to his True Love.~
809 3, 1 | fear and thy love are the cove,rt of my mercy, ~Each 'O
810 1, 1 | He said, "Without veil or covering or deception,~Speak out,
811 3, 12 | sinning,~Themselves rend the coverings of their crimes.~Their sins
812 6, 6 | the city to the dome which covers the tomb of the martyr;
813 5, 13 | Then comes an anecdote of a cowardly Sufi who boasted of his
814 6, 5 | would be all the same as cowards;~Wisdom and knowledge would
815 6, 9 | the Sun of the Truth, a cradle for babes, but too small
816 2, 2 | at the impotence of that crafty one~All the while was secretly
817 3 (1) | cp. Cranmer. ~
818 6, 9 | aware of the troubles and cravings of his sheep. He knew that
819 4, 2 | from the "right way,"~You crawl crookedly, like infants
820 4, 6 | a woman whose infant had crawled to the brink of a canal,
821 2, 10 | lack art, ~And therefore He creates Guebers as well as Moslems. ~
822 2, 11 | answered, "What you say is not credible. Your words are like the
823 2, 17 | names, if he is a man of credulity,~Like thee, remains hopeless
824 2, 11 | not, then, that all these creeds are false,~The false ones
825 3, 17 | other, ~Why should they creep together like man and wife? ~
826 3, 7 | grovelling on his face or creeping." 1~He flies up on two wings
827 3, 16 | death of Bilal, Muhammad's crier, and by illustrations of
828 3, 12 | heart's secrets,~Yet the criminal himself exposes them to
829 3, 2 | darkness; and God has said, 'No criminality is imputed to the blind.'2
830 1, 3 | he sleeps (to love);~His (critical) wakefulness is worse than
831 1, 1 | is therefore beyond human criticism.~Description of Love.~A
832 4, 2 | without mouth or palate. ~No crocodile of sorrow will attack thy
833 4, 2 | the "right way,"~You crawl crookedly, like infants unable to
834 3, 1 | thy meaning straight, ~Thy crookedness of words will be accepted
835 3, 12 | strange to say, although crowds of people were passing by,
836 1, 16 | plans all events.~If He crushes His own instruments,~He
837 1, 9 | dust;~In the form, three cubits high, which he gave him,~
838 6, 6 | the darts of hunger like a cuirass,~When God instils wrath
839 4, 6 | retorts that in order to cultivate a waste field it is necessary
840 2, 1 | cobbler in the hand of a cultivator~Are as grass before a dog
841 4, 1 | has instilled into them cupidity, ~That the bath may be warmed
842 4, 2 | Next a story is told of a cur who attacked a blind man (
843 4, 7 | not from negation or vain curiosity.~Otherwise I should chastise
844 3, 13 | should use similitudes of curl and cheek?~Moses took his
845 3, 18 | Accounts of Yusuf and his curled locks, ~Accounts of Jacob,
846 4, 3 | dish of sorcery leaves only cursing;~The noise of the dish of
847 1, 10 | be too many nor admit of curtailment,~He is the sun of the spirit,
848 2, 2 | Workman His work spreads a curtain,~You cannot see Him outside
849 2, 2 | are ordained, as so many curtains of the light of God, to
850 3 (5) | See Koran cxi.: Abu Labab, at the instigation
851 1, 9 | beat drums,~And men beat cymbals because of my eclipse, 4~
852 5 (10)| Ishraqin (Platonists)." Dabistan i Muzahib, by Shea and Troyer,
853 Note | appearance, put forth by Ismail Dadah, the commentator. He also
854 4, 6 | Sunni and a Materialist 8 (Dahri) decided by the arbitrament
855 4 (8) | philosophers into three classes: Dahriyun, Tabayiun, and Ilahiyun.
856 5, 10 | and liver, which are the daintiest parts. When the lion returned
857 3, 5 | as it were, called it "Dal" and another "Alif."~Comparison
858 1, 2 | rebuilt it in fairer sort;~Has dammed up the stream and cleansed
859 1, 5 | In the book of Kalila and Damna a story is told of a lion
860 4, 5 | from the book of Kalila and Damnah, 1 is as follows. There
861 5, 11 | of speech,~It no longer dares to utter what passes;~For
862 5, 13 | his words only serve to darken counsel. 17 But here Ayaz
863 2 (4) | and by the night when it darkeneth, thy Lord hath not forsaken
864 3, 2 | for a wolf, even on the darkest night. The townsman replied, "
865 2, 7 | on the way,~Nor speak of darns to torn garments.~The sect
866 6, 6 | your body~And wards off the darts of hunger like a cuirass,~
867 Note | in a copy of the Masnavi dated 814 A.H. He bought it and
868 4, 2 | To the cock the signs of dawning day. ~In this way deal with
869 1, 16 | cancels the business of the daytime,~When the reason that lights
870 1, 5 | of all?~When thy sight is dazzled by colors,~These colors
871 1, 15 | strong enough to bear the dazzling Sun.~I have, as it were,
872 3, 17 | murdered man leapt up from his deadness ~At the words, ' Strike
873 2, 13 | of breath, from nervous debility, from inability to walk,
874 3, 2 | bounteous One, made her debtor for thy embryo.~He gave
875 6, 8 | This man incurred heavy debts on the credit of his pension,
876 2, 1 | That mirror would be as deceitful as we men are. 6~If a pair
877 5, 7 | salt ground.~Carnal reason deceives us; do thou contradict it,~
878 3, 10 | O dame,~The harvest of December is not as that of July;~
879 5, 2 | God fills the world with deceptions, 2 making apparent blessings
880 2, 15 | not plain, reading it is deceptive;~For that black is written
881 3, 12 | for consideration before deciding the case. After private
882 3, 12 | accused. The reason for this decision was, that David discovered
883 4, 4 | externals ~And base their decisions on outward appearances, ~
884 3, 16 | experience. ~Therefore take this declaration with its context, ~Remembering
885 1, 16 | crooked,~If Thou shouldst declare the highest heaven base,~
886 5, 3 | union recedes;~As they decrease, the unction of union increases.~
887 2, 11 | and invited the Prophet to dedicate it. The Prophet, however,
888 1, 7 | true prayer is revealed~Deems it shameful to turn back
889 5, 13 | repented her discourtesy so deeply that she put on mourning
890 5, 4 | fled from Balkh, and was defeated by Chingiz Khan a year or
891 5, 11 | caught robbing a garden and defending himself with the fatalist
892 6, 9 | at last fell sick of hope deferred, and gave up the ghost.
893 3, 6 | is excessive, sometimes deficient.~The Sufi is, as it were,
894 5, 1 | Finally, he was very sick, and defiled his bedding. In the morning
895 2 (3) | The law defining the right course. ~
896 3, 18 | God; ~An explanation and definition of each several state, ~
897 4, 6 | despicable fellow? 2 Who is he to degrade Pharaoh from his 'supreme
898 5, 11 | designed for a mosque but degraded into a fire-temple, or a
899 5, 10 | last attained to such a degree of spiritual insight that
900 1, 5 | proceeded on his way after delaying long,~In order to have a
901 6, 9 | for them," 17 and how God delays the answer to prayer, and
902 2, 6 | that he never received any delicacy without giving Luqman a
903 3, 17 | athirst cries, "Where is delicious water?" ~Water too cries, "
904 5, 13 | religion. Her father was so delighted at this that he ran out
905 2, 16 | speaking to excess. But the delinquent excused himself on the grounds
906 4, 2 | Can the desert stop the deliverer?~The heart travels to the
907 3, 15 | fountain of life;~Men of delusions are a synonym for death.~
908 2, 2 | When evening came the Kurd demanded payment, but the pauper
909 3, 13 | their divine mission and demanding a miracle as a sign. They
910 6, 1 | responsibility and merit, or demerit, for his actions are recognized
911 2 (2) | i.e., the Logos as Demiurge. ~
912 1, 3 | Not for observance, but to demonstrate our weakness,~That we may
913 1, 5 | owing to the quick motion,~Demonstrates the rapidity with which
914 4, 1 | he wished to have ocular demonstration of the fact. His mistress
915 1, 13 | in his heart~Is a secret denier and philosopher.~Now and
916 6, 5 | to it, "O sorrow, who now deniest~Thy portion of bounty given
917 4 (4) | the two horns," and here denotes Alexander the Great. ~
918 2, 5 | senses' light is gross and dense,~It lies hidden in the black
919 1, 5 | predestined to punish him for denying God's ruling providence.
920 1, 9 | and the rest~Are all His dependents and parasites, O man!~He
921 3, 6 | your own amorous raptures, depending on the varying states of
922 6, 9 | ascertained the name of the lady depicted in the fort from an old
923 5, 11 | Shortly after the Chief was deposed, and his slaves were put
924 6, 2 | an orphan, which had been deposited with him in consequence
925 3, 9 | for breaking his vow 'by depriving him of the hand which had
926 6, 7 | was swallowed up in the depths of the earth.~Abu-l Jahl,
927 3, 7 | work for it." The people derided him for making such a foolish
928 5, 11 | and Satan another is to derogate from God's sovereignty.
929 4 (8) | Jalalu -d-Din Rumi. See "The Dervishes," by J.P. Brown, p. 197. ~
930 3, 17 | affection towards him, and descended from his throne and graciously
931 5, 10 | saints, because the Prophet describes contentment as a treasure,
932 3, 6 | sonnets and read them to her, describing her perfections and charms
933 6, 2 | afflicted, afflicted!~Sleep has deserted my eyes~Through my longing
934 2, 9 | acted very foolishly in deserting his friends.~:~
935 5, 1 | Verily that light fills deserts and wastes.~That witness
936 5, 13 | anecdote is told, do not deserve the name of men. When anger
937 6, 6 | between them,~That the one who deserved preeminence should endure.~
938 4, 1 | former calls him a Gueber deserving to be killed.~Zaid, one
939 6, 9 | Divine art without form designs forms (ideals), 4~Those
940 3, 5 | to thy advice? ~For thou desirest to make me one of thy flock. ~
941 5, 1 | and again, "God only desireth to put away filthiness from
942 3, 2 | United mother to father also, despise Him not!~O Lord, O Ancient
943 2, 8 | are in a strait,~You speak despitefully of my prophethood.~I brought
944 1, 15 | the seven hells, and the destinies of all men, whether bound
945 6, 5 | or war or fraud,~Pray, O destroyer of virtue, by what name
946 4, 7 | forms; wherefore, then, destroyest Thou them?~Thou makest charming
947 5, 13 | die, and naught but time destroyeth us." 8~To return; that prince
948 1, 9 | light up to heaven.~Other details are wanting to complete
949 3, 2 | the gate," ~If the vulgar detect not such an one by tests, ~
950 1, 13 | lurks in you too;~You may develop innumerable states of mind.~
951 4, 2 | O beloved, this weed is deviation from the "right way,"~You
952 3, 1 | called to prayer, ~Would devoutly cry, "Come hither, come
953 3, 17 | When it lacks moisture and dew, heaven sends them. ~The
954 2, 5 | and the senses' light a dewdrop.~But that light which is "
955 1, 1 | case, and by a very skilful diagnosis, discovered that the real
956 6, 5 | of the Faqir had not been dictated by impulse, but by inspiration. 4
957 5 (7) | of philosophy (trans. by Dieterici). ~
958 3, 16 | lawful; ~When the aspects differ the relation is double. ~"
959 5, 6 | Yet the disk of a cake differs much from the moon's disk.~
960 2, 4 | form may not mislead you,~Digest my sweet advice before copying
961 3, 12 | is gained by digging, O digger of treasure!~:~
962 1, 3 | results is not found in dignities."~(Each sect looked to results
963 6, 5 | existing present. Here the poet digresses to point out that when wise
964 1, 9 | The story contains several digressions, on Pharaoh, on the prophet
965 5, 1 | bewildered by these thoughts,~And digs for hidden treasure in hope
966 1, 9 | fasts~Displays exceeding diligence,~That men may think him
967 2, 11 | lost your camel and seek it diligently;~Yet how will you find it
968 4, 4 | morrow those disciples, diminished in number, ~Raised lamentations
969 5, 8 | this did not betoken any diminution of his love for Ayaz, because
970 6, 6 | carefully;~Your eyes are dimmed and closed with fat.~The
971 6, 9 | the chest for one hundred Dinars, and thus the Qazi escaped.
972 3, 3 | observe how luxuriously he had dined. But his belly was vexed
973 3, 3 | chance of being invited to dinner by his friends. So the belly
974 5, 10 | follows a story of a monk (Diogenes) who took a lantern and
975 2, 10 | your own knowledge,~And dip your hand in the dish of
976 2, 17 | received a present of a dirhem. The Persian said he would
977 2, 11 | give a reward of so many dirhems."~You go on seeking news
978 4, 9 | and polytheism and duality disappear,~And Unity abide in the
979 3, 13 | to do with approving or disapproving His works."~The men of Saba
980 2, 1 | to me,~'Such and such a disastrous affair has occurred?'"~The
981 6, 9 | What, then, means their disavowal of their Sustainer?~This
982 2, 16 | the material cause of his disbelief. ~To the wise, whose hearts
983 5, 11 | is just as sophistical to disbelieve the declarations of the
984 6, 9 | on the tribe of 'Ad for disbelieving the Prophet Hud. 20 Earthly
985 5 (1) | sects. See Sale, Prelim. Disc., p. 112. ~
986 1, 9 | single rosebud,~The spring in disclosing him is his foe.~But he who
987 5, 8 | then returned to the king discomfited and shamefaced, even as
988 3, 17 | counting the very toils and discomforts of the road sweet and delightful,
989 6, 1 | marrying her. She was much discomposed at this unfortunate accident,
990 1, 9 | the poet, apropos of its disconnectedness, compares it to eternity,
991 3, 14 | when he saw the viper his discontent was turned into thankfulness
992 4, 6 | faith. Then Moses was much discouraged, but he was consoled by
993 5, 13 | afterwards repented her discourtesy so deeply that she put on
994 2, 6 | Master examines him and discovers his Acuteness.~Luqman the
995 3, 13 | misapplying parables to discredit their divine mission, and
996 2, 2 | there; whence, then, this disgust at it?~Ah! lover, consider
997 2, 6 | look for pleasures after disgusts?~While ye fear the doom
998 4, 3 | and reproached him with dishonoring his master by his stinginess.
999 6, 8 | Khwarazm Shah deluded into disliking a fine horse by the interested
1000 3, 18 | him. But instead of being dismayed, he bethought himself of
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