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1001 1, 9 | variety of letters there seems disorder,~Though in fact they agree
1002 5, 12 | lived under the Christian dispensation when wine was allowed, sent
1003 6, 9 | master, the form of wheat was dispensed with.~Form proceeds from
1004 4, 6 | spiritual truths which Moses was displaying before him. The door of
1005 6, 3 | wheat are already at its disposal. Spiritual men must continue
1006 1, 1 | singing His praise were dispraise,~For 'twould prove me existent,
1007 5, 11 | result of leaving both the disputants of the same opinion as when
1008 1, 14 | The Chinese and the Greeks disputed before the Sultan which
1009 5 (4) | Prophet said, "Sit not with a disputer about fate, nor converse
1010 4, 5 | fishermen and were sorely disquieted. The very wise fish, without
1011 1, 13 | Whosoever has a doubt or disquietude in his heart~Is a secret
1012 4, 4 | We look at the heart and disregard the outside. ~The judges
1013 1, 7 | presence-chamber~Would show disrespect by tarrying at the doorway.~
1014 3 (12)| Akbar's minister) once spoke disrespectfully of the Koran and the Masnavi,
1015 1, 9 | spirit and the flesh.~The dissension of this husband and wife
1016 1, 3 | Christians, and stir up mutual dissensions amongst them. The Vazir'
1017 2, 7 | possible, engage not in dissevering;~'The thing most repugnant
1018 3, 18 | these words the spell was dissipated, and showers of gold fell
1019 3, 15 | used with prudence.~If all dissolute men were shut up in prison,~
1020 3, 17 | foot! ~Again when I suffer dissolution as an angel, ~I shall become
1021 3, 17 | our bodies. ~That it may dissolve these composite bodies of
1022 1, 7 | One!~When their union is dissolved, lo! Thou abidest!~Thou
1023 4, 2 | right and quite proper;~Who dissuades me from it but men of no
1024 2, 2 | The Friend is absent, the distraction he causes present.~Renounce
1025 2, 3 | inquiry.~When Zu-1-Ntin became distraught with care for it,~Egypt (
1026 4, 2 | temple, and he was greatly distressed because he thought it portended
1027 5, 10 | Tis contrary to reason to distrust him.~Though I bear a bad
1028 6, 6 | the field.~But at times he distrusted the efficacy of his prayers,~
1029 3, 13 | miserable and annoy and disturb us. ~Our souls were void
1030 6, 7 | him for making all this disturbance about nothing, and threatened
1031 1, 5 | requires, as it were, a diver. 8~On this fair ocean our
1032 1, 3 | grievous sin."~(Ah! how many diverse roads are pointed out,~And
1033 1, 3 | him. The Christians were divided into twelve legions, and
1034 6, 7 | quoted the proverb, "The divider is in hell" The Mosalman
1035 1, 3 | Only a few discerning men divined his treachery ; the majority
1036 4, 2 | call man the microcosm, divines call him the macrocosm.~
1037 1, 11 | ordered him to make the division. The fox, rendered wary
1038 3, 12 | many more governors ~To divulge thy secret sins on the day
1039 3, 12 | secret sins are manifest; no divulging is needed. ~There is no
1040 1, 9 | Moses and Pharaoh, alike doers of God's will, ~as Light
1041 6, 5 | God's eye is on all your doings." 1 The sick man blessed
1042 2, 3 | Lion of God" in the soul's domain.~When his two sons were
1043 4, 4 | spirit has this rule and dominance over him,~The agent is the
1044 1, 5 | indeed are they whom God dooms to doubt!~The devotee of
1045 6, 1 | kindle a beacon-fire for war doth God quench it." 3 This is
1046 4, 2 | Not with the folly that doubles itself by vain babble,~But
1047 6, 4 | age; and if they answered doubtfully, saying, "Perhaps eighteen,
1048 5 (9) | punishment, as they wait for thy downfall (Rodwell). ~
1049 1, 9 | concluded, with its ups and downs,~Like lovers' musings, without
1050 6, 3 | know not wherefore thou art dragging me,~Now embracing me, and
1051 4 (10)| trumpet blast, that shall be a dreadful day" (Koran lxxiv. 7). ~
1052 2, 16 | state resembles a dream,~My dreaming seems to them infidelity.~
1053 4, 2 | water in the ocean, not in a dried-up channel.~The next anecdote
1054 2, 8 | was sitting by him and driving off the flies. The flies
1055 1, 16 | vengeance on him, at once dropped his sword, to the Magian'
1056 6, 6 | world are in this wise,~Drought, famine, peace, war, and
1057 3, 18 | birds could appal the great drum-bearing camel that used to march
1058 6, 9 | your real self, quit this dual self.~Your last self attains
1059 4, 4 | faith, 3 ~Are straightway dubbed faithful by men of externals. ~
1060 2, 18 | have taken thee,~Who art a duckling, under her wing and nurtured
1061 6, 7 | of his arms, whereby he dug holes through the walls
1062 4 (4) | Zu'l Qarnain, Chaucer's Dulkarn, means "He of the two horns,"
1063 3, 1 | those free from pain are dull and cold, ~The cries of
1064 5, 12 | need to render them still duller by drink." In illustration
1065 1, 17 | Like as the Dragon's tail 2 dulls the brightness of the moon.~
1066 3, 18 | Whereat the highest wit is dumbfoundered. ~The fourth meaning has
1067 4, 6 | A mere worm buried in a dung-heap,~How can it know the origin
1068 4, 6 | was in so many respects a duplicate of himself. To illustrate
1069 5, 1 | are arrested and kept in durance.~They enter into conflict
1070 6, 5 | by wind?~When you see the dust-cloud, see the wind too!~When
1071 1, 3 | a preacher of religious duties,~But within a decoy call
1072 5, 12 | very tall man, who had a dwarfish brother. This brother one
1073 3, 13 | there was to Saba in their dwelling-places two gardens, the one on
1074 3, 3 | Peacock.~A jackal fell into a dye-pit, and his skin was dyed of
1075 3, 3 | dye-pit, and his skin was dyed of various colors. Proud
1076 4, 2 | owing to Thee; Thou art my dyer;~Thou hast caused my sin
1077 5, 4 | but one of the Khwarazm dynasty of Balkh, to which family
1078 2, 13 | from pain in the back, from dyspepsia, from shortness of breath,
1079 1 (1) | i,e., why is the rule "an eye
1080 5, 10 | praised the water, but was not eager to drink;~He rent his garments
1081 5, 3 | says, "Expend;" 4 wherefore earn money.~Since expenditure
1082 5, 3 | prophet; 10~Thou makest some earth-born men as heaven,~And muitipliest
1083 4, 9 | reason imagine~That these earthquakes proceed from earth's vapors."~~
1084 2, 5 | The senses' light draws us earthwards,~God's light carries us
1085 6, 9 | recognized how "God causes ease to follow troubles," 16
1086 1, 3 | If the right road were easily attainable,~Every Jew and
1087 2, 6 | sight which regards the ebb and flow of good and ill~
1088 1, 9 | beat cymbals because of my eclipse, 4~They beat their brass
1089 1, 6 | darkened as by a hundred eclipses.~What is it that God says
1090 4 (8) | and Ilahiyun. Schmolders, Ecoles Philosophiques, p. 29. ~
1091 2, 10 | down our heads before His edict and ordinance, ~We stake
1092 4, 3 | the dish of faith leaves edification.~When the touchstone is
1093 4, 2 | stones for your spiritual edifice.~Be like Solomon, free from
1094 6, 5 | ripe,~And ask this only to edify the ignorant.~The ills of
1095 Note | found in any of the other editions.~The Bulaq edition adds
1096 3, 4 | him in his infancy, of his education in Pharaoh's house, of his
1097 3, 11 | totality of actions~Is not effected without God's direction,~
1098 6, 6 | times he distrusted the efficacy of his prayers,~On account
1099 3 (13)| that for which he hath made effort" (Koran liii. 40). ~
1100 3, 13 | naturally indignant at the effrontery of the men of Saba in misapplying
1101 3, 6 | really love is your own effusions and ecstatic raptures. I
1102 2, 2 | his face towards Being (egoism),~And was perforce blind
1103 6, 4 | doubtfully, saying, "Perhaps eighteen, or seventeen, or sixteen,
1104 1, 14 | their house in the most elaborate way. The Greeks, on the
1105 3, 16 | children in their schools,~And elders in their mosques,~All read
1106 3, 9 | also the doomed from the elect? ~Yea, he knows them, yet
1107 6, 6 | Draw the bow fully.'~You elevated the bow to excess,~You magnified
1108 4, 2 | writing the Masnavi was to elicit words from Husam, as his
1109 4, 6 | Save by the pallor and emaciation of my face. ~When the tears
1110 1 (9) | whole material creation emanates. ~
1111 3 (10)| The Logos or first Emanation produced the second or "
1112 2 (1) | figurative account of the emanations of Absolute Being, whereby
1113 1, 8 | heart of the harper was emancipated.~Like a soul he was freed
1114 1, 6 | you desire sanity in this embarrassment,~Stuff not the ear of your
1115 2, 16 | sorrowful. ~I send myself on an embassy to thought, ~And, at will,
1116 1 (9) | created beings, was afterwards embodied in Adam, the "Perfect Man,"
1117 1, 8 | of the lute,~At another embracest wailing and weeping."~While
1118 2, 11 | Another says, "Its cloth was embroidered."~Another that it had only
1119 4, 9 | it was formed of a bright emerald,~Forming as it were a ring
1120 4, 1 | That his good fortune may emerge from adversity.~Whatsoever
1121 6, 9 | water,"~Or, "Lo! the sun emerges from the clouds;"~Or if
1122 3, 2 | common to all, ~But only eminent saints enjoy inspired love. ~
1123 1, 6 | ambassador who was sent by the Emperor of Rum to the Khalifa 'Omar.
1124 1, 8 | broke, and no one would employ him any longer. In despair
1125 5, 9 | female attire and obtained employment as attendant at the women'
1126 3, 12 | stream, ~All the vessels are emptied into one ewer. ~Because
1127 4, 8 | and he recognized the emptiness of this idle sport, and
1128 3, 8 | Mu'tazalites, that all m en are born with equal ability,
1129 5, 13 | First the hearing of the ear enables you to form ideas,~Then
1130 1, 7 | sacrifice to my Beloved.~I am enamoured of my own grief and pain,~
1131 4, 6 | forms and pictures;~I was enchanted with that house so fleetin!~
1132 5, 13 | faith and love are a mighty enchantment!~God's dealings visible
1133 5, 3 | that reward!~A reward that enchants the heart and charms the
1134 1, 4 | in rain.~Though water be enclosed in a reservoir,~Yet air
1135 4, 2 | peoples,~As a liberal man encompassed by the contumely of the
1136 6, 9 | of the perils they would encounter on their journey to China,
1137 5, 10 | Wherefore the blind imitator encounters great perils,~Perils of
1138 5 (7) | wrote, about 980 AD., an encyc1opedia of philosophy (trans. by
1139 5, 3 | accomplishments and wealth endanger man's spiritual life, like
1140 3, 1 | not absent when they are endangered,~For He is jealous for their
1141 6, 8 | charitable person of Tabriz endeavoured to raise funds for the poor
1142 3 (12)| presented itself. ~The book ends with the beginning of a
1143 3, 17 | But his love made the pain endurable; ~And as his burning sighs
1144 5, 3 | not possible. 7~When thou endurest not the pains of abstinence~
1145 1, 5 | Mustafa saith, "The world endureth only a moment."~So, thought
1146 2, 16 | torpid, is instinct with energy.~The Prophet said, 'Mine
1147 4, 2 | commentaries on the text, "O thou enfolded in thy mantle;" 34 on the
1148 1, 5 | some time to perform their engagement. One day it came to the
1149 4, 2 | such pleasure~And pride in engaging in those sins?~Does a man
1150 6, 6 | evidence of God's bounty, engendering these spiritual states in
1151 6, 3 | wailing. The man who is engrossed with the trifling pleasures
1152 4, 6 | let the ones through and engulphed the others. ~God's mercy
1153 1, 10 | traditionists.~That man enjoys close proximity to Allah;~
1154 3, 15 | grant his earnest request,~Enlarge his faculty according to
1155 5, 1 | Prayers for spiritual enlightenment.~O God, who hast no peer,
1156 6, 3 | and called his minstrel to enliven him. The minstrel was a
1157 4, 2 | with bodies,~Bodies are ennobled by union with souls.~Arise,
1158 2, 3 | witness."~When 'Omar was enraptured with that beauty,~Like a
1159 4, 2 | from the spiritual creation enshrined in his heart. For God says, "
1160 1, 7 | and demons,~Because he is ensnared in falsity and fraud.~If
1161 6, 9 | the risk of whatever might ensue. He added that he was convinced
1162 6, 6 | these two mighty armies~Ensued war and battle and all we
1163 5, 11 | good actions will always entail good consequences, and bad
1164 1, 8 | art a stranger;~When thou enterest in thou art at home.~Thou
1165 4, 1 | wife. This wife was one day entertaining a paramour, when she was
1166 4, 2 | prison;~Thou thinkest thyself enthroned, but art outside the door.~
1167 5, 10 | fox, and bade him go and entice some animal to come near
1168 5, 10 | ass yielded to the fox's enticement, and accompanied him to
1169 5, 13 | light.~This subject in its entirety is endless,~But to the unbeliever
1170 1, 7 | When Thou shalt become one entity with "Us" and "You."~Then
1171 1, 9 | preaching the world was entranced~Was he who spake the two
1172 5, 1 | still~In fasting only to entrap unwary birds;~Making hundreds
1173 6, 8 | the king,~Remember me, and entreat the king~To release rue
1174 6, 9 | and took pity on him and entreated him kindly. He instilled
1175 6, 7 | the king listened to his entreaty, and delivered him from
1176 5, 7 | free grace.~When he thus enumerates his sins and faults,~God
1177 5, 5 | Prophet's prayer for the envious people.~O Thou that givest
1178 5, 5 | deceivers.~Redeem them from envying, O gracious One,~That through
1179 6, 8 | the text, "The infidels equalize others with their Lord." 1
1180 6, 1 | that the talents of Ayaz equalled those of thirty men. The
1181 3, 5 | painter, ~Not so, for he erases ugly pictures. ~The ability
1182 3, 18 | reaches knowledge it stands erect,~And its knowledge again
1183 2, 10 | that the fire of lust, that erst breathed flame, ~Has become
1184 2, 6 | sometimes identified with Esop, and sometimes with the
1185 1, 5 | Giver of the secret,~Till it espies that Bowman shooting from
1186 1 (2) | Laborare est orare." ~
1187 2, 2 | sense He annuls,~But He establishes that which is hidden from
1188 5, 13 | from whom they had been estranged by life on earth. Like Habib,
1189 3, 17 | reluctance, for this life of estrangement from him which I am now
1190 6, Prol| as in those states, so eternally. 1~Their form turns to dust,
1191 3 (7) | According to its etymology. Islam means self-surrender
1192 1, 3 | he slew himself. In the event each captain set himself
1193 1, 3 | profitable,~Consider the eventual value of this and that."~
1194 6, 8 | was much cast down, but eventually recognized that he had erred
1195 4, 8 | weariness vanishes at these ever-fresh sights.~I see the world
1196 5, 13 | proves the presence of the Everlasting God.~So the revolution of
1197 | everyone
1198 3, 16 | hundred tokens and a hundred evidences, ~But from envy and malice
1199 3, 9 | not to blame, as God had evidently designed to punish him for
1200 4, 6 | ought to cleanse the rust of evil-doing from his soul, and then
1201 5, 7 | left hand.~Then will the evildoer be sent to the fiery prison,~
1202 5, 8 | It is a characteristic of evildoers to think evil of the saints,
1203 4, 3 | about meat and drink, and evinced no aspirations after spiritual
1204 4, 9 | see double previously.~The evolution of man.~First he appeared
1205 1, 16 | From His displeasure He evolves a Paradise;~He feels displeasure
1206 3, 12 | vessels are emptied into one ewer. ~Because He that is praised
1207 1 (12)| But the Infinite Deity ex hypothesi includes all things;
1208 4, 7 | and chastisements serve to exalt his saints, though they
1209 6, 6 | God is an Abaser and an Exalter~Without these two processes
1210 2, 6 | STORY VI. Luqman's Master examines him and discovers his Acuteness.~
1211 6, 8 | Except one or two rare exceptions,~Whose bodies are in prison
1212 4, 2 | persuaded the king that the exchequer could not afford this large
1213 2, 1 | with the others in high excitement;~So I went away, thinking
1214 3, 13 | anxiety, ~On every side sounds exciting fears: ~On every side in
1215 5, 7 | injunction. He added, that in executing this injunction, painful
1216 5, 7 | also was diverted from the execution of it by a divine intimation.
1217 5, 1 | jewel beams forth,~It is exempted from these obligations.~
1218 5, 11 | to him, and by specially exempting some, such as the blind, 3
1219 3, 13 | have a better hope through exerting myself; ~My fear is increased
1220 3, 17 | To draw off unwholesome exhalations. ~The fiery sign (Leo) sends
1221 6, Prol| court,~Soul of souls the exhibition of God Himself.~All the
1222 1, 6 | improve the occasion by exhorting them to engage in a greater
1223 3, 9 | prison from which ho seeks an exit? ~'Tis the bond of God's
1224 2, 17 | Very high, very fine, very expansive,~The very water of life
1225 3, 2 | at his door in hope and expectation;~He spoke to them, saying, "
1226 6, 9 | if not in the way that he expected; according to the text, "
1227 2 (8) | the Prophet in aid of the expedition to Syria. ~
1228 1, 3 | mutilate the Vazir himself, and expel him from his court, with
1229 4, 9 | Saying, " What mattered my experiences when asleep?~When I had
1230 3, 6 | turn to me only in hope of experiencing raptures.~Whoso is now defective,
1231 2, 3 | brilliant sun,~He became so expert as he was in interpreting
1232 6, 9 | slayer and my mourner!"~That expiring martyr also gave thanks,~
1233 4, 6 | reason, with Pharaoh, the exponent of mere opinion or illusion.
1234 5, 1 | thoughts and mind,~Both of them expose to view the veiled secret.~
1235 3, 12 | Yet the criminal himself exposes them to view,~Saying, "Behold
1236 4, 6 | Pharaoh then prayed him to expound the four advantages he had
1237 2, 1 | What is it hinders me from expounding my doctrines~But this, that
1238 2, 11 | hidden subject.~A philosopher expounds it in one way,~And a critic
1239 5, 11 | a certain way,-that God expressly assumes man to be a free
1240 1, 5 | line of fire.~This apparent extension, owing to the quick motion,~
1241 5, 13 | them with God, and that extinction of the phenomenal self,
1242 3, 5 | the torch of God, all are extinguished." ~He answered "Nay! I am
1243 4, 2 | their needs.~Every prophet extols this prescription,~"Seek
1244 6, 5 | without injury to any.~He who extracts the rose from the thorn~
1245 6 (10)| Simurgh, "Oiseau extraordinaire qui reside au Caucase,"
1246 4, 1 | that her pretensions to extraordinary modesty and humility were
1247 5, 6 | and rebuked him for his extravagance. There is no limit to the
1248 3, 9 | I may escape hence, ~And extricate myself from this deep slough." ~
1249 1, 8 | Immersion wherefrom was no extrication,~As it were identification
1250 2, 1 | the mystery of the saints,~Eye-closing night that of their hidden
1251 5, 10 | then that this world of eye-fascinating illusion~Seduced from the
1252 5, 12 | reason enough to discover the eye-salve.~He strives earnestly with
1253 1, 15 | every man had strength of eyesight~To look straight at the
1254 1, 9 | This story is not a vain fable,~'Tis the ready money of
1255 5, 4 | the text, "Of goodliest fabric we created man, and then
1256 4, 2 | ye beheld forty mansions faced with gold,~And how ye were
1257 4, 2 | from thee and will soon fade, ~Thou wilt be left like
1258 1, Prol| dumb.~When the rose has faded and the garden is withered,~
1259 4, 3 | touchstone of his boasts.~Sorcery fades away, but the miracles of
1260 3, 2 | large head-dress," ~And failure in the test leads him to
1261 4, 6 | consulting Haman, and Asiya was fain to console herself with
1262 3, 13 | remaining idle." ~Why then, O faint-hearted one, in the matter of religion ~
1263 4, 8 | more dearly, knew him and fainted with joy. What was mere
1264 2, 16 | the Ka'ba,~Whilst another faints with going to the mosque."~
1265 5, 1 | reason;~Write on, O skilful Fair-writer!~Imprinting every moment
1266 3, 2 | free from error and all faithlessness; ~Thou must come to me and
1267 3 (12)| Lucknow commentator says that Faizi (brother of Abul Fazl Akbar'
1268 5, 13 | in which Pharaoh said it. Fakhru-'d-Din Razi 16 discoursed
1269 4, 6 | falcon for all purposes of falconry. Pharaoh, however, would
1270 3, 13 | refused to be convinced of the fallacy of their reasoning. So at
1271 4, 1 | I less than a lamb or a fallow deer, ~That I should have
1272 5, 13 | What ear has told you falsely eye will tell truly.~Then
1273 3, 16 | him, for that moon~Is more famed than the sun and moon of
1274 4, 2 | nor their works, nor their families;~Nor their manners, nor
1275 3, 5 | said it must be a large fan; another its leg, and thought
1276 5, 13 | unbeliever it is a mere fanciful idea.~The only realities
1277 1, 12 | No sickness worse than fancying thyself perfect~Can infect
1278 2, 5 | who is this tailor?~He fans and kindles the flame; who
1279 6, 6 | protecting mountain.~His far-shooting learning veiled his eyes,~
1280 3, 11 | The Darvesh replied, "I fare like a man who directs the
1281 3, 11 | Darvesh, and asked him how he fared. The Darvesh replied, "I
1282 4 (13)| to the well-known poem of Faridu-d-Din 'Attar the "Mantiqu-t-Tair." ~
1283 6, 7 | that he could throw a rope farther than any one. At last it
1284 4, 3 | destroy the glamour of thy fascinations. ~Behold them that have
1285 2, 6 | not below, as a ring that fastens a door.~Since the "Friend
1286 4, 5 | lost it, as it, was not fated you should get it,~That
1287 1, 16 | thee,~How can I balk the fateful decree?"~He fell at my feet
1288 1, 16 | the evil written in our fates,~Repel us not from the tables
1289 2, 11 | retain the love of your fatherland. I still retain my love
1290 1, Prol| own feelings,~But not one fathoms the secrets of my heart.~
1291 4, 9 | their grazing!~Let them fatten themselves with the food
1292 1, 1 | decay, and he then lost favour with the maiden, and she
1293 4, 1 | They have supposed the fawn to have no shepherd, ~They
1294 2, 3 | wit and acute of genius.~Fazil from a highway robber became
1295 3 (12)| that Faizi (brother of Abul Fazl Akbar's minister) once spoke
1296 2, 11 | prayer was come, and he feared Mo'avia would be late. Mo'
1297 1, 9 | paradise of beholding Me, O fearer of God."~Highest heaven,
1298 6, 9 | according to the text, "Whoso feareth God, to him will he grant
1299 2, 13 | of old;~How can you avoid fearing that you will act like them?~
1300 2, 7 | what matters it?~Love is fearless in the midst of the sea
1301 1, 8 | in great request at all feasts. But he grew old, and his
1302 3, 9 | tradition, "The heart is like a feather~In the desert, which is
1303 4, 2 | fish in the seas,~And all feathered fowl in the air above,~All
1304 5, 10 | who, like the musk-deer, feeds on saffron of Khoten~Must
1305 1, 9 | a-quaking,~When she weeps, how feelest thou then?~When she whose
1306 5, 6 | In regard to the joy he feigns to feel.~The light is the
1307 4, 4 | knew better that lord of felicity, ~Who had not courage enough
1308 4, 8 | besieging a mimic fort with his fellows, and succeeded in capturing
1309 5, 10 | masculine,~And his ugly lust feminine and under subjection!~Though
1310 1, 6 | and mines.~The might of Ferhad's soul cleft a hill;~The
1311 1, 9 | sour whey;~He who drinks fermented whey displays drunkenness,~
1312 1, 7 | alternating states?~The fertile garden of love, as it is
1313 3, 12 | was journeying in pious fervor, and in hope to see the
1314 4, 7 | brightness of the brightest festal day. He who beholds the
1315 3 (3) | is also called "The Cow Festival." ~
1316 1, 3 | slumbering.~Our wakefulness fetters our spirits,~Then our souls
1317 3, 17 | Like the earth or like a fetus I devour blood, ~Since I
1318 4, 2 | necks is a rope of palm fibre," 18~And "Verily on their
1319 3, 16 | sweetmeats?~Nevertheless the fiction produces a relation~Between
1320 4, 1 | modesty and humility were also fictitious. The lover then proceeded
1321 6, 4 | seventeen, or sixteen, or even fifteen," he would rebuke them,
1322 1, 10 | desired that it might be the figure of a lion. But when he felt
1323 2, 14 | his camel with two sacks, filling one with wheat and the second
1324 1, 12 | Because Not-being is a clear filtered essence,~Wherein all these
1325 5, 1 | only desireth to put away filthiness from you as His household,
1326 5, 1 | tears, and bewailed his own filthy conduct. The Prophet consoled
1327 6, 6 | contained directions for finding a hidden treasure. The directions
1328 5, 7 | I am as the pen in the fingers of the writer,~I am not
1329 1, 9 | are perplexed by Whole and finite parts,~Have patience, for
1330 5, 11 | mosque but degraded into a fire-temple, or a piece of cloth designed
1331 5, 13 | Ahmad, say little to an old Fire-worshipper!"~"We distribute among them," 11
1332 1, 1 | of the soul, beyond this firmament,~No like thereof is seen
1333 1, 9 | her cheeks.~How could his firmness and endurance abide~When
1334 4, 6 | illusions, like a fish from the fish-hook which has caught him. Pharaoh
1335 4, 5 | pretending to be dead, and the fisherman took him up and threw him
1336 3, 5 | Eve what time~God Almighty fitted the string to His bow?~The
1337 6, 9 | and inappropriate,~But no fitter ones are obtainable from
1338 1, 10 | forms of service this is fittest for thee;~Thou shalt surpass
1339 3, 13 | to a generous man, 'tis fitting, ~For each kindness he will
1340 6, Prol| worthless.~And if an owl fixes his affection on the king,~
1341 6, 6 | He commanded fire and its flaming torment~To settle the matter
1342 3, 4 | And that bat of vileness flaps its wings.~Slay it in sacred
1343 1, 9 | That rain brought forth a flash of lightning~Which kindled
1344 1, 13 | saints.~He says that the flashes of men's morbid imaginations~
1345 5, 13 | divine eye it appeared a flashing light.~This subject in its
1346 6, 1 | He directed his wife to flatter the slave with the hope
1347 2, 7 | Hell is attached to things flattering our lusts.~The branch full
1348 2, 11 | one,~And every lewd fellow flatters you with a fresh rumor,~
1349 4, 2 | is derived from "Alah" (fleeing for refuge) and thus we
1350 4, 6 | enchanted with that house so fleetin!~I was ignorant of the treasure
1351 1, 6 | food of the soul, O son?~Flesh-born man by force of soul~Cleaves
1352 3, 12 | feet I trod upon thorns and flints, ~Seeing I was bewildered,
1353 1, 5 | fair ocean our human forms~Float about, like bowls on the
1354 4, 5 | with their nets. He then floated upon the surface of the
1355 4, 6 | Are you not a mere mote floating in the sunbeams? ~How know
1356 3, 14 | a wolf has harried your flocks;"~For that calamity may
1357 5, 8 | the door, and searched the floor and the walls, but found
1358 5, 7 | one will be verdant and flourish, saying, "We are the pious;"~
1359 6, 5 | For no member grows and flourishes without pleasure,~And each
1360 2, 18 | ocean!~Thou art a duck, and flourishest on land and water,~And dost
1361 2, 7 | as to the reason of ~the flourishing state of the wicked.~Moses
1362 3, 13 | them that wicked men had flouted the prophet Noah in the
1363 6, 9 | love of Yusuf,~And there flowed out of her jar what it contained.~
1364 6, Prol| Knowledge is the effect flowing from soul;~He who has most
1365 6, Prol| by man to his own. 6~This flux and reflux of resolves came
1366 5, 11 | scare that phoenix into flying away.~And if one say a word
1367 4, 2 | trying to run home to her foal.~:~
1368 6, 5 | When the Ocean casts its foam-drops to land,~Go to the graveyard
1369 2, 1 | him plenty of litter and fodder. The servant assured him
1370 5, 11 | recompense;" 6 yea, seven hundred fold.~When those Egyptian women
1371 4, 2 | protection;~The whole is folded up in that right hand of
1372 3, 2 | He viewed those impotent folk, troop by troop,~Sitting
1373 3, 13 | Saba were afflicted with follies and self-delusions of this
1374 5, 12 | devotee said, "What! does a follower of God indulge in wine?
1375 4, 2 | Ibrahim bin Adham aud his fondness for music. 8~~Haste to renounce
1376 3, 17 | blaze of the light, ~And fool-like has plunged therein and
1377 3, 18 | and rebuked him for his foolhardiness, reminding him that not
1378 5, 6 | time from imitation and foolishness,~Because he sees all the
1379 3, 5 | same form, O son. ~You are footbound like the grass in the ground, ~
1380 3, 18 | with thy horsemen and thy footmen," 3 and confronted his unseen
1381 5, 8 | crooked foot makes a crooked footprint, and as the spider sees
1382 5, 13 | always, "My life is Thy footstool!"~Like that shepherd who
1383 1, 5 | annoy them by his continual forays. The lion was at first unwilling
1384 4, 2 | In reality I am his first forefather,~Because the angels worshipped
1385 2, 13 | destroys the nation.~Our forefathers lifted their hands against
1386 6, 3 | the "tokens of it on their foreheads," 6 death is an occasion
1387 3, 17 | s wisdom in His eternal foreknowledge and decree ~Made us to be
1388 5, 3 | face which is bright as the forenoon sun,~To disfigure it were
1389 3, 15 | the mule. Then the cock foretold the death of a slave, and
1390 6, 9 | gratitude,~Because they forewarn us of our ultimate lot,~
1391 Note | be a comparatively recent forgery. Haji Khalfa says: "It is
1392 5, 13 | be reminded of it, for He forgets nothing; nor to be urged
1393 6, 5 | principles of mercy and forgiveness which he had proposed in
1394 3, 2 | left alone in the midst, forlorn, ~Even as the fires left
1395 1, 5 | long regard ye mere form, O form-worshippers?~Your souls, void of substance,
1396 1 (1) | minutes without hearing the formula, "In sha Allah Ta'alla,"
1397 5, 13 | His past year's sins of fornication, fraud, and deceit;~In order
1398 1, 7 | Is it right? " and He forsook me.~Why dost Thou flee from
1399 4, 6 | not destructive by mere fortuitous chance." ~Thus you know
1400 4, 3 | any dealings with a fool fouls his own nest. Fools only
1401 4, 2 | temple.~When Solomon laid the foundations of the temple,~Men and Jinns
1402 4, 8 | ever welling up from new fountains.~The sound of those waters
1403 3, 17 | the Christian Trinity. 11~Fourthly, when my harvest was burned
1404 2, 10 | full moon; you are now a fragment thereof. ~Wherefore this
1405 4, 2 | looking about and enjoying the fragrance of the flowers and fruits,
1406 3, 3 | were very severe on the frailties of mankind, and whom God
1407 5, 13 | Its very dread of the sun frames an idea of the sun,~And
1408 1, 5 | shows up opposite, as a Frank a Negro.~The opposite of
1409 6, 9 | wild rue and ending with frankincense.~She veiled his name under
1410 1, 15 | given by the Prophet to his Freedman Zaid.~At dawn the Prophet
1411 5, 11 | Mutazilites, to prove the freedom of the will and consequent
1412 6, 9 | action of the Deputy in freeing the Qazi reminds the poet
1413 1, 6 | Nevertheless our actions are freely willed by us,~Whence our
1414 1, 3 | awakening.~Every night Thou freest our spirits from the body~
1415 4, 4 | Bayazid had said, used to frequent his tomb. One day he visited
1416 5, 9 | with some of the women who frequented the bath. At last, however,
1417 5, 9 | afterwards one of the women frequenting the bath lost a valuable
1418 1, 16 | and the stirrup-bearer had frequently implored 'Ali to kill him,
1419 1, 16 | agent.~How can I chide or fret at God's instrument?"~He
1420 5, 12 | valley of pain he is utterly friendless.~With sad eyes he sits in
1421 6, 9 | and the Qazi, in a great fright, hid himself in a large
1422 6, 2 | and grass, so as to avoid frightening the birds away from his
1423 6, 5 | wombs~Tell tales of love frolics in the spring.~So every
1424 1, 9 | violent and exceedingly froward.~They have no tenderness
1425 5, 4 | same time hung his lip,~And frowned sourly like a bitter orange.~
1426 5, 12 | sits in his corner,~With frowning face and downcast looks.~
1427 1, 5 | Till ye have reached that fruit-laden Tree of Life~Whose branches
1428 3, 9 | In that place were many fruit-trees, and the Darvesh made a
1429 5, 3 | he admired so much was a fruitful source of danger to its
1430 2, 17 | thee, remains hopeless and frustrated of his aim.~Why cleavest
1431 2, 7 | full of sap is the main fuel of thy fire.~'They that
1432 5, 3 | pains of abstinence~And fulfillest not the terms, thou gainest
1433 3, 9 | home, utterly disgraced, ~Fulfilling the desire of his enemies
1434 3, 11 | man,~Then man desires the fulfillment of God's decrees;~And this
1435 2, 15 | becomes grimed by the smoke fumes;~Then he quickly perceives
1436 6, 8 | Tabriz endeavoured to raise funds for the poor man, and appealed
1437 6, 8 | bread of Thy providing, and furnished to him by Thee.~Thou also
1438 6, 6 | you will cast off these furs and silks,~And seek for
1439 5, 11 | lust exist and act only in furtherance of God's will. To hold that
1440 1, 14 | plucked a rose (Gul) from Gaf and Lam?~You name His name;
1441 5, 3 | fulfillest not the terms, thou gainest no reward.~How easy those
1442 4 (16)| their traffic hath not been gainful" (Koran ii. 15). ~
1443 1, 9 | vested with darkness and a gainsayer of reason.~Learn now whence
1444 2, 5 | pen writing;~The horse is galloping, yet the rider is hid from
1445 2, 11 | Koran. 2 The tribe of Bani Ganim built a mosque, and invited
1446 3, 15 | infidels feed on filth and garbage,~And generate poison according
1447 6 (10)| reside au Caucase," as M. Garcin de Tassy calls it, means "
1448 1, 15 | honey.~When the heart is garnished and swept clear of lust,~
1449 3, 17 | Know death to be the gathering together of the people. ~
1450 5, 13 | worthless as wool, will become gems;~Yea, your whole body will
1451 3, 17 | but is all sweetness.~Love generates love. "If ye love God, God
1452 2, 6 | other, 2~One opposite state generating its opposite in exchange.~
1453 2, 16 | and evidence ~That this is generic water, and concrete water
1454 1, 9 | They have no tenderness or gentleness or amity,~Because the animal
1455 2 (6) | Jirjis or St. George is supposed by Muhammadans
1456 6, 7 | anecdote of a man named 'Abdu'l Ghaus, who was the son of a fairy
1457 4, 1 | new-born boy,~Or that of "Ghazi" applied to a noble idler.~
1458 4 (8) | Ghazzali divides the ancient Greek
1459 2, 12 | captured by the tribe of Ghuz. The Ghuzians were about
1460 2, 12 | by the tribe of Ghuz. The Ghuzians were about to put one of
1461 5, 1 | big and coarse man, a very giant Og, whom no one would receive,
1462 2, 6 | the prophet. Job, though "gifted with wisdom by God," was
1463 4, 4 | Many are the copper coins gilded with gold, ~And sold as
1464 5, 7 | body. Gabriel accordingly girded his loins and proceeded
1465 4, 3 | his eyes ~And destroy the glamour of thy fascinations. ~Behold
1466 2, 15 | is written is read at a glance;~But when you write on the
1467 6, 9 | Save thoughts which catch a glimpse thereof,~And after the vision
1468 1, 9 | the fruits display their globes?~When the blossoms are shed
1469 4, 3 | fear not!"~The magicians gloried in their own achievements,~
1470 6, 9 | dragged on life with pain and gnashing of teeth.~At last life ended
1471 2, 15 | mirror,~Rust spots begin to gnaw his iron,~The color in his
1472 1 (4) | xviii. 17; "Knower" = the Gnostic who through ecstasy beholds
1473 2, 3 | God the name "Polestar of Gnostics."~What time King Mansur
1474 5, 1 | portion of milk yielded by one goat, and steadfastly refused
1475 5, 1 | the milk of those seven goats, to say nothing of bread
1476 2, 10 | So as to fill you, like a goblet, with wine. ~Take up your
1477 6, 9 | not intoxicated with these goblets of forms,~Lest you become
1478 5, 11 | procure earthly food,~By God-given reason you may mount the
1479 6, Prol| who has most of it is most godlike.~Seeing then, beloved, that
1480 4, 6 | down himself to find the gold-mine.~While you are now smiting
1481 4, 2 | work,~Some of them with good-will, and others on compulsion,~
1482 5, 4 | comments on the text, "Of goodliest fabric we created man, and
1483 3, 13 | and give thanks to Him; goodly is the country and gracious
1484 3, 18 | to the Masnavi.~A certain goose pops his head out of his
1485 4, 2 | than hunt the wild ass (Gor) on the mountains in company
1486 3, 12 | Thy secret sins and crimes govern hand and foot,~Saying, "
1487 3, 9 | your vows. 2~Because the governance of actions is in my hands,~
1488 3 (8) | Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd, ~To vital
1489 2 (2) | passage quoted in Lumsden's Grammar, ii. 323, and is mentioned
1490 4, 2 | assisted him. Sibawayh, the grammarian of Shiraz says "Allah" is
1491 5, 4 | both the poet's mother and grandmother belonged. He was the reigning
1492 6, Prol| with God's attraction?~O Granter of aid, lend us aid~In this
1493 6, 9 | makes answer, "The delay in granting his prayer~Is intended to
1494 1, 7 | the doorway.~If the king grants him license to kiss his
1495 2, 6 | rose bower,~Without love a grate full of ashes seems a garden.~
1496 4, 2 | Cain the art of digging graves and burying corpses, as
1497 6, 5 | foam-drops to land,~Go to the graveyard and behold them,~And ask
1498 3, 5 | man whose hair was half gray came in haste ~To a barber
1499 5, 10 | musk, O disciple,~He must graze year after year in the divine
1500 5, 10 | hankering after the pleasant grazing-ground the fox told him of, and
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