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2002 3, 13 | sent upon them the flood of lram. Such was our retribution
2003 6, 8 | gave me a lamp, but Thou my lucid eyes;~He gave me sweetmeats,
2004 1 (2) | able to understand Arabic (Luck-now Commentator). ~
2005 5, 13 | is next illustrated by a ludicrous anecdote of a dwarf who
2006 2 (1) | Luke i. 41. ~
2007 3, 10 | your sleepless sense is lulled into sleep, ~That mysteries
2008 3, 16 | That prophet of God and luminary of the Spirit?"~If you say, "
2009 4, 2 | weight at hand, he used a lump of soapstone instead; but,
2010 2 (2) | Jelaludin in a passage quoted in Lumsden's Grammar, ii. 323, and
2011 2, 11 | voices of the birds, and so lure them to destruction. You
2012 1, 13 | seventy and two heresies lurk in you;~Have a care lest
2013 4, 6 | to set him free from his lust-engendered illusions, like a fish from
2014 5, 13 | rebuke to his passion, whish lusted to join in the "lesser warfare".~
2015 3, 17 | love makes hers fair and lusty. ~When in this heart the
2016 3, 3 | his friends to observe how luxuriously he had dined. But his belly
2017 6 (9) | Koran lvii. 4. ~
2018 3 (4) | Koran lxi. 5: "God led their hearts
2019 1 (5) | Koran lxxix. 24. Pharaoh's boast. ~
2020 4 (2) | Koran lxxx. 34. ~
2021 5 (2) | Koran lxxxvi. 5. ~
2022 2 (6) | Lucknow copy reads Ba sati for Ma sti. ~
2023 2, 10 | If we are drunkards or madmen, ~'Tis that Cup-bearer and
2024 3, 17 | one another as iron and magnet." ~Heaven is man and earth
2025 6, 6 | elevated the bow to excess,~You magnified unduly the bowman's art,~
2026 3, 2 | semblance of one clad in mail, ~Yet when wounded he is
2027 1, 5 | but though trust be our mainstay,~Yet the Prophet teaches
2028 6, 8 | story of the man who was maintained by the Prefect of Tabriz.
2029 2, 1 | dust makes the eyes smart.~Makers of base coin hate the daylight,~
2030 3, 7 | Nor is he vexed at their malevolence.~Nay, even if sea and mountains
2031 6, Prol| eyes.~From evil eyes and malice-empoisoned breaths~Already have I suffered
2032 1, 3 | Vazir had intended. But the malicious scheme did not, altogether
2033 1, 16 | own stirrup-bearer (Ibn Maljun), and the stirrup-bearer
2034 5, 3 | stable, and jeered at and maltreated by them. This suggests.~
2035 5, 4 | are valiant men~May not, man-like, break my bonds asunder."~
2036 2, 16 | fifty loaves,~While you can manage only six, we are not on
2037 6, 5 | idols Lat and 'Uzza and Manat, in a verse which was afterwards
2038 2, 11 | it had lost its hair from mange.~To gain the reward every
2039 6, 9 | have grown to spiritual manhood. When the prince was thus
2040 5, 13 | as he was not nearly so manly as her beloved captain.
2041 6, Prol| ecstatic states of others.~This manoeuvre is one of the devices of
2042 1 (12)| Gulshan i Raz, I. 92. Mr. Mansel (Bampton Lectures, p. 49)
2043 4 (13)| Faridu-d-Din 'Attar the "Mantiqu-t-Tair." ~
2044 4, 2 | O thou enfolded in thy mantle;" 34 on the proverb, "Silence
2045 6, 6 | Shall supersede the jar of many-colored wine (plurality),~For that
2046 3 (2) | Or "decreed, not decree" (maqzi nai qaza). I confess I do
2047 5, 3 | sin.~'Twere paganism to mar such a face as thine!~The
2048 1, 1 | fetched the goldsmith, and married him to the lovesick maiden,
2049 6, 1 | aspired to the honor of marrying her. She was much discomposed
2050 6, 9 | trance to consciousness,~His Mars-like eyes shed tears of blood.~
2051 6, 3 | incomparable and crowded mart~Sell your old goods and
2052 2, 3 | the two lights." 10~When Martaza ('Ali) shined with its reflection,~
2053 5, 13 | carpenter of Antioch, who was martyred for taking the part of '
2054 2, 7 | is better than water for martyrs,~This fault is better than
2055 5, 1 | taken. The other guests marveled much to see his gluttony
2056 5, 1 | Thy Almighty pen!~Through marveling thereat stones become as
2057 2, 14 | former subjects passed by and marvelled to see him engaged in such
2058 5, 10 | Happy is he whose reason is masculine,~And his ugly lust feminine
2059 3 (1) | away from me or from the Masjid." (Mishkat ut Masabih, ii.
2060 3, 9 | chains of iron, ~For the mason can pull down prison walls, ~
2061 6, 4 | pot by degrees and in a masterly way;~Food boiled in mad
2062 1, 15 | instructed him that all men are masters of their own wills, and
2063 6, 9 | And make boast of their mastery thereof;~But these words
2064 4, 8 | harem did not approve of the match, considering it below the
2065 6, 9 | exhortations,~And slighted his matchless intimations.~Now we have
2066 4, 6 | arguments between a Sunni and a Materialist 8 (Dahri) decided by the
2067 1, 7 | from joy or grief,~My sense mates not with illusion and fancy.~
2068 2 (1) | Cp. Matthew xxv. 40. ~
2069 2 (1) | Mishkat ul Masabih, by Matthews, i. 205. ~
2070 5, 13 | belonging to the Chief of Mausil, and conceived an ardent
2071 4 (2) | A hill in Mazandaran. ~
2072 2, 11 | your hand, and you are in a maze.~The caravan is come to
2073 6, 6 | garden and sweet watered meadows.~Not like Canaan, who, through
2074 2, 16 | exceedingly like a bell, at his meals he eats more than twenty
2075 2, 2 | pearls;~Yea, a sun that measures the heavens!~The real Workman
2076 3, 5 | its nurse, ~It eats strong meats and leaves the nurse. ~You
2077 5, 13 | one adopted and held in mechanical and parrot-like fashion.
2078 1 (2) | Cp. "Religio Medici," Sect. 35: "Herein is divinity
2079 1, 9 | Abstinence is the prince of medicines,~As scratching only aggravates
2080 3, 12 | the case. After private meditation he re-versed his former
2081 5, 6 | lost in the intervening medium.~Then follows an anecdote
2082 2, 3 | sought out that light,~He meekly laid his head beneath his
2083 2, 10 | turned the fire of wrath to meekness, ~And the darkness of ignorance
2084 1, 7 | falsity and fraud.~If folly meets him, he takes it for wisdom;~
2085 4, 2 | Can make even harsh voices melodious.~As we are all members of
2086 4, 9 | This ass's head into that melon-garden!~For when this ass is killed
2087 6, 9 | a cloud;~In order not to melt that soul-like body,~The
2088 6, 9 | When she said, "The wax is melted by the fire,"~She meant, "
2089 3, 1 | Syria is this vestige and memorial, ~Thou seest it in passing
2090 2, 2 | cries of regret.~Sometimes I menace them with poverty, 2~Sometimes
2091 5, 13 | thy garment of vermin,~And mend thy shoes, and kiss the
2092 2, 5 | is the bat?~He tears and mends; who is this tailor?~He
2093 1, 5 | light,~So it is with the mental colors within.~Outward colors
2094 2, 11 | cause of all the evil you mention. I am not God, that I should
2095 2, 2 | traffic,~Sometimes thoughts of merchandise and wealth.~Sometimes thoughts
2096 5, 13 | nor to be urged to act mercifully, for He created men "for
2097 5, 6 | not the subject of their merriment, and is obliged to have
2098 5, 1 | gone the servants saw the mess he had made, and informed
2099 2, 7 | Thine are stained with metaphors and similitudes.~Blood is
2100 4 (26)| Hamilton's Lectures on Metaphysics, vol. i. p. 40). ~
2101 6, 9 | princes at last arrived in the metropolis of China, and thereupon
2102 4 (6) | the ascension of Muhammad (Mi raj). ~
2103 5, 7 | earth. Then God deputed Michael on the same errand, and
2104 6, 4 | exposing him to the heat of the midday sun, and beating him with
2105 4, 6 | Egypt thine? Art thou not mightier than this despicable fellow? 2
2106 4, 1 | whether that wind is chill or mild, ~He is not ignorant nor
2107 4, 2 | regards not parasangs or miles.~Even on earth there is
2108 1, 15 | place or track of it in tho milky way.~Our senses and our
2109 4, 6 | must first be ground in the mill, and so on. The best return
2110 2, 2 | sweepers.~Sometimes thoughts of mills, gardens, and villas,~Sometimes
2111 4, 8 | who played at besieging a mimic fort with his fellows, and
2112 3, 18 | rise above the grade of minerals to that of animals.~Objections
2113 3 (12)| brother of Abul Fazl Akbar's minister) once spoke disrespectfully
2114 1 (1) | strict Mosalman for five minutes without hearing the formula, "
2115 5 (3) | their works are like the mirage in the desert" (Koran xxiv.
2116 3, 13 | how the men of Saba had misapplied the parable of the hare
2117 3, 13 | effrontery of the men of Saba in misapplying parables to discredit their
2118 3, 4 | O friend;~Yea, many more mischiefs than I have told.~If you
2119 5, 6 | With what blindness and misconception did I pretend.~To experience
2120 2, 6 | the body is a breeder of misconceptions~In all who have not fled
2121 4, 1 | facts. You are ashamed to misconduct yourself in the sight of
2122 2, 1 | man subject to greed is a miser.~Can eyes of hearts clouded
2123 5 (6) | Miskat ul Masabih, i. 417. ~
2124 6 (1) | See Miskkat ul Masabih, ii. 541. ~
2125 5, 10 | only for the purpose of misleading others.~Thus a woman's onset
2126 6, 3 | of the Masnavi,~The form misleads, but the inner meaning guides.~
2127 1, 15 | to them that walk aright, missiles against Satan.~If every
2128 6, 9 | of his arrow-shafts was missing.~He cried to God, "What
2129 3, 12 | looks down the well, and mistakenly praises it, ~In reality
2130 2, 1 | in the time of 'Omar, who mistook his eyelash for the new
2131 2, 2 | Sometimes of clouds and mists and jokes and jests.~Sometimes
2132 2, 1 | For he who is ignorant misuses the instrument ;~If you
2133 2, 2 | All the while was secretly mocking.~He slew a hundred thousand
2134 5, 13 | incarnation" and "union" as the modes in which the real "I" of
2135 5, 6 | without understanding the modus operandi, and by so doing
2136 4, 2 | the miracles of 'Abdullah Moghrabi, and others, of which abstracts
2137 1, 5 | with precaution is toil and moil;~Go, trust in Providence,
2138 2, 5 | makes it dry and sometimes moist.~The hand is hidden, yet
2139 5, 1 | and brow and moustache and mole!~For me, I will be a lover
2140 2, 2 | their eyes with tresses and moles."~In this prison the food
2141 5, 3 | would in future care to molest him. The poet proceeds to
2142 2, 3 | accidents "endure only two moments;" that at death the animal
2143 3 (3) | on the tenth day of the month Zul Hijja. It is also called "
2144 2, 3 | scent of his son. 5~When moonlike Joseph saw that brilliant
2145 2, 1 | saints;~One day of their moons is as whole years.~Know, "
2146 1, 13 | that the flashes of men's morbid imaginations~Instil many
2147 3, 15 | cock for picking up the morsels of bread which fell from
2148 2, 11 | destruction of hundreds of mortals, such as the people of Noah,
2149 4, 2 | derived from stones and mortar,~But from being built without
2150 5, 3 | monk,~Because chastity is mortgaged to lust.~Without lust denial
2151 5, 13 | with truth when he has mortified self and unlearnt to say "
2152 1, 2 | That of the latter from mortifying the flesh.~The kingly soul
2153 5 (4) | reflected in the resulting caput mortuum or Not-being, as in a mirror (
2154 4, 6 | cloud? ~Are you not a mere mote floating in the sunbeams? ~
2155 2 (6) | annihilation of self in God, as a moth in the flame. ~
2156 3, 17 | him or hang him, ~Saying, "Moth-like he has seen the blaze of
2157 3, 16 | What knows a fly of the motions of the elephant?"~This statement
2158 6, 9 | incense of sinners' groans~Mounts up above the lofty roof
2159 3, 14 | him from harm.~'Tis said, "Mourn not for your slaughtered
2160 6, 9 | is both my slayer and my mourner!"~That expiring martyr also
2161 5, 1 | To wit, eye and brow and moustache and mole!~For me, I will
2162 5, 13 | fair show before men.~Its movements and its rest in the privacy
2163 4, 1 | that showed that God, the mover of the wind, was also present.
2164 | Mr
2165 3, 1 | Go to him and say, 'O much-tried one, ~Did not I engage thee
2166 1, 17 | earth;~The water is become muddy; close the mouth of the
2167 4, 2 | Reason," or the Prophet Muhammed, are the channels. Thus
2168 6, 3 | Ashura, or tenth day of Muharram, meet at the Antioch gate
2169 5, 3 | earth-born men as heaven,~And muitipliest heaven-born saints on earth!~
2170 2, 8 | done by me,~Yet they only multiply your doubts and cavils.~
2171 6, 3 | see Thee not~Through the multitude of intervening obstacles?~
2172 3, 13 | We used to be as parrots munching sugar, ~Ye have made us
2173 3, 12 | in the desert where the murder had been perpetrated, and
2174 3, 17 | a source of life. ~That murdered man leapt up from his deadness ~
2175 2, 2 | He committed a thousand murders in the land.~He did all
2176 6 (10)| means "thirty birds" (Si murgh), and is used as a type
2177 5, 13 | And makes it cling to the murky night.~Just so 'tis your
2178 5 (4) | I.e., he has no director (Murshid i kamil) to instruct him
2179 1, 2 | title of Muhammad to false Musailima.~But Musailma retained the
2180 1, 2 | to false Musailima.~But Musailma retained the name of "Liar,"~
2181 1, 9 | and downs,~Like lovers' musings, without beginning or ending.~
2182 5, 10 | pasture.~For he who, like the musk-deer, feeds on saffron of Khoten~
2183 5, 1 | Withhold not from me that musky wine, O Lord of faith~Of
2184 4, 1 | latter calls Zaid a sincere Mussulman,~The former calls him a
2185 1, 3 | a stratagem, namely, to mutilate the Vazir himself, and expel
2186 5, 3 | peacock to forbear from mutilating himself and spoiling his
2187 4, 2 | his grandfather, Abd ul Muttalib, prayed to God that he might
2188 5 (10)| Platonists)." Dabistan i Muzahib, by Shea and Troyer, iii.
2189 1, 5 | That jealous king slew a myriad babes,~While Moses, whom
2190 1 (3) | leading principle of all mysticism is that, independently of
2191 2 (15)| the introduction to the Nafahatu-'l Uns, Jami says there are
2192 3 (2) | decreed, not decree" (maqzi nai qaza). I confess I do not
2193 6, 9 | name the one is the same as naming the other.~Zulaikha was
2194 3 (5) | Bahau-'d-Din Amili, in his Nan wa Halwa, chap. iv., compares
2195 3, 5 | interested in the foregoing narrative, ~Saying, "The Prophet,
2196 2, 13 | God never destroys the nation.~Our forefathers lifted
2197 Note (1) | surnamed Anguravi, from his native place Anguri, in Anatolia.
2198 5 (12)| Bulaq translator renders An naward thus. ~
2199 5, 3 | is to annihilate self, a,nd to be absorbed in the eternity
2200 4, 8 | been carried captive by Nebuchadnezzar, Ezra beheld the ruins of
2201 6, 5 | probation, and such a state necessarily involves trials and difficulties
2202 4 (20)| open. Read thy book; there needeth none but thyself to make
2203 6, 9 | your needs~To one who is as needy as yourself?~Since forms
2204 1, 3 | lighten mankind.~If thou neglectest regard and care for it,~
2205 5, 2 | for his dog's death. The neighbor, on hearing this, rebuked
2206 6, 7 | affection for a frog living in a neighboring pond. 7 That he might be
2207 1, 13 | went to condole with a sick neighbour and answered all his remarks
2208 5, 4 | went and searched all the neighbourhood, and at last found a traveler
2209 1, 9 | became a reproach to their neighbours. The wife at last lost patience,
2210 1, 1 | What can I say when not a nerve of mine is sensible?~Can
2211 2, 13 | shortness of breath, from nervous debility, from inability
2212 2, 4 | had come to seize their nests, and all surrounded him
2213 1, 2 | descending from the air, find net and knife.~So vile hypocrites
2214 6, 9 | is better than a hundred nice dishes.~A seeing eye is
2215 2, 10 | sick, of Shaikh Bahlol, nicknamed "The Madman," who was a
2216 6 (6) | Cp. Nicom. Ethics, x., iv. 6. ~
2217 2 (2) | mentioned in the Phado and the Nicomachean Ethics. ~
2218 1, 1 | illumines the world~Were to draw nigher, the world would be consumed. 7~
2219 6, 7 | therefore could not eat before nightfall, proposed to eat them that
2220 6, 7 | who accompanied us on our nightly walk;~This is he whose beard
2221 3, 13 | worship of the noble is nobility, ~The place of worship of
2222 6, 1 | no means the richest or noblest of the number, but pious
2223 1 (2) | The descending node of the moon (see Gulshan
2224 3, 17 | become non-existent, for non-existence ~Sings to me in organ tones, '
2225 5, 5 | alone who agitates these nonentities~Making one nonentity fall
2226 3, 17 | love dwells.~In whatever nook my queen alights,~Though
2227 1, 8 | prayer was put off till noon.~On that, his wedding night,
2228 1, 5 | mount up to the roof!~The notion of fatalism is groundless
2229 1, 15 | tell him again not to seek notoriety?~'Tis not wise to publish
2230 | nowhere
2231 2, 4 | linked to body,~Though it in nowise resembles the body.~The
2232 1 (2) | something, and Omneity informed nullity into existence." ~
2233 2, 2 | severed from the bad. The numerous grades of prophets, of saints,
2234 1, 9 | Moses and I are Thy nurslings both alike,~Yet Thy axe
2235 3, 2 | gave thee needful rest and nurture.~He viewed her as a part
2236 6, 5 | spring.~So every tree which nurtures its fruits~Has been, like
2237 4, 6 | gratitude to himself for nurturing him in his childhood. Moses
2238 2, 2 | prison of the world I am at oase,~That I may slay the children
2239 3, 1 | The very breath of that oath tells tales,~As it strikes
2240 5, 10 | Khoten~Must not eat grass and oats like asses.~That man of
2241 3, 12 | is thy reason; Go!~Be not obdurate to the prayers of him that
2242 3, 13 | wax, ~The winds are their obedient slaves.~:~
2243 5, 13 | king's command ought to be obeyed at all costs, and therefore
2244 3, 11 | all men,~That the world obeys the command of God.~Not
2245 6, 7 | pleased; but this also was objected to by the others, who quoted
2246 2, 2 | all men. In answer to an objection that if this were so the
2247 3, 13 | qualities,~Which, being objectionable, may be made good.~Bid stone
2248 4, 4 | Prophet's answer to the objectors.~Why the Prophet promoted
2249 5, 1 | It is exempted from these obligations.~Wherefore require not from
2250 6, 8 | with their Lord." 1 This obliquity of spiritual sight, causing
2251 5, 4 | rank Shi'as, naturally most obnoxious to a Sunni prince claiming
2252 1, 17 | Clouded its moon with foul obscurity!~When bread is "substance,"
2253 1, 3 | prohibitions are~Not for observance, but to demonstrate our
2254 3, 3 | called on his friends to observe how luxuriously he had dined.
2255 6, 3 | multitude of intervening obstacles?~Thou art 'nearer to me
2256 6, 9 | their heresy (Bid'at) and obstinate unbelief are like to incur
2257 6, 6 | wise in their own conceit, obstinately shut their eyes to it, and
2258 3, 13 | spells. ~When the body is obstructed water reaches not the liver, ~
2259 2, 1 | reason clear,~Tear off the obstructing veil of greed!~The blind
2260 6, 7 | own. The proverb says, "Occasional intermission of visits augments
2261 4, 1 | long-sought mistress. This occasioned him to reflect how often
2262 3, 10 | thoughts resemble weeds ~Which occupy the surface of pure water. ~
2263 5, 12 | downcast looks.~There is no oculist who cares to open his eyes, 4~
2264 1 (2) | sign of hypocrisy (Hafiz, Ode 5). ~
2265 5, 13 | Grant pardon to these offenders'?" The Omniscient God needs
2266 6, 7 | scientific proofs are more offensive to the wise~Than the urine
2267 1 (3) | heart experienced by the offerer of prayer when his prayer
2268 2, 7 | of fear.~Beware, if thou offerest praises or thanksgivings,~
2269 2, 7 | spoken, but the heart that offers them. I do not require fine
2270 5, 13 | shoes?~And breathe your oft-told secrets into inanimate ears?~
2271 5, 1 | coarse man, a very giant Og, whom no one would receive,
2272 1, 2 | cried out, "Pray, whose oil-jar did you upset?" The passers-by
2273 1, 2 | a cat upset one of the oil-jars. When the oilman returned
2274 6 (10)| Simurgh, "Oiseau extraordinaire qui reside
2275 3, 6 | her lover, the Alpha and Omega of his desires. As for you,
2276 4, 6 | the term of the lease~You omit to derive profit from the
2277 2, 11 | Mo'avia, the first of the Ommiad Khalifas, was one day lying
2278 1 (2) | nothing became something, and Omneity informed nullity into existence." ~
2279 2, 16 | a spark of the light of Omnipotence, ~However much he eats,
2280 6, 6 | commentaries.~When that Omnipotent hand made the staff a serpent,~
2281 5, 13 | to these offenders'?" The Omniscient God needs not to be informed
2282 1, 3 | of Christ;~Yea, him, that one-eyed and cursed Dajjal! 3~Save
2283 1, 5 | more lovely than committing oneself to God?~Many there are who
2284 5, 8 | and beloved are always as ono soul, though they may be
2285 5, 10 | misleading others.~Thus a woman's onset in the midst of a battle
2286 5, 1 | before they are uttered,~Thou openest the door to admit hearts
2287 2, Prol| occurred on the day of "Opening."~The commencement date
2288 5, 6 | understanding the modus operandi, and by so doing caused
2289 4, 9 | like a plaster, and now operating;~Now still like thought,
2290 1, 4 | That Cause makes this cause operative,~And again helpless and
2291 5, 10 | better his condition when the opportunity of doing so presented itself,
2292 6, 2 | cease wailing while Thou oppressest me?~How can I flee away
2293 4, 6 | deprived of peace by your oppressions. ~See! I have brought a
2294 4, 1 | of blessing robbers and oppressors, because their evil example
2295 6, 7 | pointing out that he had no option but to obey the Prophet'
2296 5, 4 | frowned sourly like a bitter orange.~Then God offered gold and
2297 1 (2) | Laborare est orare." ~
2298 6, 6 | iniquity.~Likewise did God ordain a punishment for the Thamud,~
2299 6, 7 | summoned his Vazir, gave orders for their apprehension.
2300 3, 14 | mayest acquiesce in God's ordinances,~And be wary and not doubt
2301 3, 17 | non-existence ~Sings to me in organ tones, 'To him shall we
2302 3, 1 | Were my attractions, and originated thy prayer. ~Thy fear and
2303 6, Prol| Saying, "O most orthodox ornament of the pulpit,~I have a
2304 3, 1 | For their trial they are orphans and wretched,~Yet in love
2305 1, Prol| since they tore me from my osier bed,~My plaintive notes
2306 2, 3 | discerned true and false. 9~When Osman viewed those brilliant sights,~
2307 5, 9 | retired to a secret chamber ostensibly to say his prayers, but
2308 5, 2 | whole neighborhood by his ostentatious grief One of the neighbors
2309 4, 2 | beginning of the reign of 'Othman, of the miracles of 'Abdullah
2310 1, 2 | wound;~Has razed the fort to oust, the infidel in possession,~
2311 6, 7 | of the holder.~All your outcry and pompous claims and bustle~
2312 4, 2 | could not afford this large outlay, and kept the poet waiting
2313 1, 12 | Did not the carpenter plan outline and detail.~The leech skilled
2314 1, 5 | beast as he could pretend to outwit the lion. The hare assured
2315 2, 8 | kind man, seeing a serpent overcoming a bear, went to the bear'
2316 5, 1 | in consequence of having overeaten himself, and tried to get
2317 4, 4 | ready his knife.~Again that overflowing cup became beside himself,~
2318 6, 6 | your neck-vein.' "2 Men overlook the spiritual treasures
2319 2, 16 | am lord of thought, not overlorded by thought, ~As the builder
2320 2, 1 | thought he had known it overnight, because he had heard him
2321 4, 9 | illusion;~Laughter will overpower him at his own fancied grieves~
2322 6, 9 | casts away his robe when overpowered by ecstatic rapture. The
2323 3, 1 | thy foul breath,~Till it overpowers heaven with stench;~Stench
2324 5, 7 | against her will did not override the other divine command
2325 2, 7 | who possesses the power of overriding causes,~Can see without
2326 2 (2) | 76: "And when the night overshadowed Abraham, he beheld a star,
2327 3, 16 | they are hid under God's overshadowing, 3 ~And none but God knows
2328 2, 11 | was this, that if he had overslept himself, and so missed the
2329 4, 2 | fraud,~Chastisement must overtake them swift as lightning.~
2330 6, 6 | and snakes.~Straightway overthrow it, and turn back again~
2331 5, 6 | previous laughter,~Which overtook him out of mere blind imitation.~
2332 6, 6 | Strip yourself bare of overweening intellect,~That grace may
2333 3, 6 | the pure one is drowned in overwhelming love.~A child of any one
2334 4, 6 | that both of them alike owe their bodies to earth and
2335 6, Prol| and worthless.~And if an owl fixes his affection on the
2336 4, 5 | time you have eaten many oxen and sheep,~And likewise
2337 1, Prol| covetous never fills,~The oyster-shell fills not with pearls till
2338 5, 12 | The noble refused to be pacified; but the neighbors redoubled
2339 5, 3 | were a grievous sin.~'Twere paganism to mar such a face as thine!~
2340 5, 7 | executing this injunction, painful though it might be, he was
2341 1, 14 | of them were the better painters; and, in order to settle
2342 3, 17 | decree ~Are arranged in pairs, and each loves its mate. ~
2343 4, 4 | shone forth and his lamp paled at its light.~Reason is
2344 4, 6 | not revealed ~Save by the pallor and emaciation of my face. ~
2345 1, 10 | But seek refuge under the palm-trees of the 'Truth.'~Whoso takes
2346 6, 5 | wisdom would be needless.~To pamper the house of your body fleeting
2347 2, 2 | so the slave of lusts who pampers his body~Fancies that some
2348 3, 17 | Inflicts every moment a fresh pang on our bodies. ~That it
2349 3, 13 | in the desert,~A hundred parable-mongers attacked him with irony,~
2350 1 (2) | 26: "But the Comforter (parakletos) shall teach you all things."
2351 4, 1 | unworthy proceeding, only to be paralleled by Abu Jahl's attempt to
2352 3, 13 | matter of religion ~Are you paralysed by the fear of loss? ~See
2353 6, 8 | annihilate at once text and paraphrase.~With eyes and heart look
2354 4, 2 | the body,~It regards not parasangs or miles.~Even on earth
2355 1, 9 | Are all His dependents and parasites, O man!~He is the perfect
2356 5, 1 | of God may be seen,~God pardons all sins that need pardon.~
2357 4, 2 | Hence in reality our first parent was my offspring,~As in
2358 5, 11 | are recognized in common parlance, as when we order a man
2359 1, 3 | after each whim~And holds parley with each fancy.~The twelve
2360 1 (2) | Khizr. It is also given in Parnell's 'Hermit.' ~
2361 5, 1 | faith~Of Thy bounty all partake, both men and women,~Thou
2362 1, Prol| in melody.~But he who is parted from them that speak his
2363 6, 4 | one whose eyes were only partially open to the truth. He was
2364 4, 5 | But the fool, who has no particle of wisdom,~Has no wisdom
2365 3, 10 | lamentation is separation or parting,~But I am still with my
2366 1, 10 | Lest he say, 'There is a partition between us.'~Though he stave
2367 1, 8 | fire! How long~Wilt thou be partitioned by these segments as a reed?~
2368 1, 8 | reed?~So long as a reed has partitions 'tis not privy to secrets,~
2369 6, 9 | secrets,~None but Heaven was partner in their sighs.~Yea, they
2370 6, 9 | Christians and those who give partners to God, he began to be puffed
2371 4, 2 | light; ~To the fighting partridge teach peace, ~To the cock
2372 1, 15 | and death is the time of parturition, when it becomes manifest
2373 1, 2 | oil-jar did you upset?" The passers-by smiled at the parrot's mistake
2374 3, 17 | heaven-born. ~The body loves green pastures and running water, ~For
2375 4, 5 | and ignorance cannot be patched.~O counselors, waste not
2376 6, 2 | Beloved has closed up all paths;~We are as lame deer, and
2377 5, 7 | unseen, shall appear like patrols,~They will hurry him off,
2378 1, 15 | Prophet again commanded him to pause, adding that" God is never
2379 1, 11 | wolf with one blow of his paw. Then, turning to the fox,
2380 6, 3 | which is your wealth,~He pays you the light that illumines
2381 3, 3 | or strut about gardens as peacocks are wont to do?" And he
2382 1, 5 | into the heart a single pearl-drop~Which is not bestowed on
2383 2, 3 | light,~They became the "pearly earrings of highest heaven;" 11~
2384 1, 9 | suppliant to her.~Such is the peculiarity of man,~He cannot withstand
2385 1, 2 | the evil) is reserved for penalties and pains.~:~
2386 5, 1 | When your vision cannot penetrate within,~Inspect the water
2387 5, 11 | sacrificed their reason, 7~They penetrated the mansion of Joseph's
2388 5, 1 | physician of the spirit penetrates the soul,~And thence ascertains
2389 4, 2 | love are hidden amongst the peoples,~As a liberal man encompassed
2390 | per
2391 4, 9 | Show it to me openly and perceptibly,~That I may behold thee
2392 1, 13 | Providence,~Is a stranger to the perceptions of saints.~He says that
2393 2, 15 | least expansion of soul. ~He performs the devotions and acts enjoined
2394 4, 1 | musk in the bazaar of the perfumers, but was cured by the accustomed
2395 2 (2) | Hedis: "The Prophet loved perfumes and fair women and brightness
2396 1 (2) | things." Mosalmans read periklytos, "praised" = Muhammad. ~
2397 3 (5) | vegetable, vegetable again perishes to feed and be transmuted
2398 3, 9 | command of God, ~Since God permits him not to reveal it.~:~
2399 3, 12 | where the murder had been perpetrated, and there put the murderer
2400 4, 6 | enmity and contention.~(4) Perpetual youth.~Pharaoh then proceeded
2401 3, 17 | woman,~That the world may be perpetuated by their union.~Earth says
2402 5, 1 | These letters exercise and perplex reason;~Write on, O skilful
2403 5, 11 | is a present refuge from perplexities.~Through love bewilderment
2404 1, 3 | certain Jewish king used to persecute the Christians, desiring
2405 2 (7) | have taken refuge from his persecutors in the hollow of a tree. ~
2406 4, 1 | At last his constancy and perseverance were rewarded, in accordance
2407 6, 9 | brothers to risk the perils and persevere in the journey, reminding
2408 2, 8 | flies. The flies became so persistent in their annoyances that
2409 3, 15 | destructive to him, but, on his persisting, took counsel of God, and
2410 2, 17 | countless.~That one is to thy personality a father,~In regard to another
2411 4, 2 | thereupon assumed his shape and personated him for forty days, during
2412 5, 10 | but he at last managed to persuade the ass that what he had
2413 3, 2 | bring forth peace out of perturbations, ~And when thou art afllicted
2414 1, 7 | from "Us" and "Me,"~Who pervadest the spirits of all men and
2415 1, 13 | on the contrary, 'tis his perverseness and want of faith~Which
2416 6, Prol| That my own nephew has perverted me from my religion!"~Muhammad
2417 5, 10 | rejoined that the fox was perverting the Scripture, as no pious
2418 4, 1 | other an annoyance and a pest.~If you desire that God
2419 3, 14 | For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder,~Still smiles
2420 3, 12 | for his food.~~After the petitioner had slain and eaten the
2421 3, 7 | Prophet that God loves earnest petitioners, because He regards the
2422 5, 13 | away a valued guest by a petulant remark, which he was not
2423 2 (2) | and is mentioned in the Phado and the Nicomachean Ethics. ~
2424 2 (5) | So in the Phaedo, "Many are the wandbearers,
2425 6, 7 | abstractions of philosophy.~Lofty philosophical speculation does not lead
2426 4 (8) | Ilahiyun. Schmolders, Ecoles Philosophiques, p. 29. ~
2427 3, 15 | was abusing the cock for picking up the morsels of bread
2428 6, Prol| offering to the damsels pictured on bath walls?~Nay, you
2429 4, 1 | twinkling of an eye an arrow pierces them, ~Saying, "I am her
2430 4, 2 | glories of Mount Qaf, ~To the pigeon preach avoidance of the
2431 1, 10 | dashed all his needles and pigments on the ground, and refused
2432 6, 3 | health and wealth in distant pilgrimages,~In ecstatic delight, like
2433 2, 10 | Mecca, and visiting all the "Pillars of insight" who lived m
2434 3, 2 | the test leads him to the pillory. ~If all the evil men were
2435 5, 1 | down water from the sign Pisces,~To purify the impure from
2436 5, 13 | was most faulty.~His love pitched its tent on the heavens,~
2437 6, 3 | great.~Men's bodies are like pitchers with closed mouths;~Beware,
2438 1, 17 | mingled with dust, dry in pith and rind.~O camel, now beware
2439 2, 7 | ass, O asinine one!~Thou pitiest thine ass when it complains;~
2440 2, 10 | the world revolve on this pivot stone; 3~But, in order to
2441 4, 2 | Then God tried Solomon by placing on his throne a false counterpart
2442 4, 2 | Moses, and brought many plagues upon the kingdom of Egypt.~
2443 1, Prol| ever seen a soul."~This plaint of the flute is fire, not
2444 6, 9 | thought;~Although stones and planks and bricks~Find no entrance
2445 3, 17 | sand. ~It repents me that I planned a stratagem, ~And that I
2446 1, 9 | Some of these branches Thou plantest in the ground,~Others Thou
2447 4, 9 | my work.~Now still like a plaster, and now operating;~Now
2448 1, Prol| self-conceit!~Who art our Plato and our Galen!~Love exalts
2449 5 (10)| Here we have another Platonic doctrine. "Some say the
2450 5 (10)| as that of the Ishraqin (Platonists)." Dabistan i Muzahib, by
2451 2, 11 | exist?~Falsehood derives its plausibility from truth.~'Tis the desire
2452 4, 6 | her own infant, seeing its playfellow, left the brink of its own
2453 6, 7 | to the top of Sinai,~And plays a game of love with God'
2454 1, 9 | wiles.~In this manner she pleaded with gentle coaxing,~The
2455 2, 2 | and who excused himself by pleading that if he had not done
2456 4, 1 | they would be only empty pleasantries,~Like calling the deaf a
2457 2, 8 | men but vanity?~What else pleases the foolish but folly?~Because
2458 6, 5 | who typifies the careless pleasure-seeker, was so intent on listening
2459 1, 9 | mayest surpass moon and Pleiades.~First, know creation is
2460 2, 3 | by its heat,~Iron became pliable by the force of his weaving. 4~
2461 4, 1 | that~You may be afraid to plot evil.~These names are not
2462 3, 2 | hatchet from a ploughshare? ~O plotter, how canst thou conceal
2463 5, 10 | you would know I am not plotting against you.~You repudiate
2464 3, 2 | not know a hatchet from a ploughshare? ~O plotter, how canst thou
2465 3, 9 | hand which had sinned in plucking the fruit. 1~All things
2466 1, 7 | from the deep sea;~Yea, he plucks gain from the midst of perils.~
2467 3, 1 | after the travelers saw a plump young elephant, and could
2468 5, 10 | s ark?~By illusions that plunder the road of faith~The faithful
2469 6, 7 | they broke into it, and plundered a large sum of money. The
2470 3, 4 | pride like Pharaoh's,~And it plunders the goods of many a Moses
2471 2, 18 | eternity.~Along with Solomon plunge into the ocean, 4~Then,
2472 1, 12 | accordingly produced from his pocket and presented to Joseph,
2473 4 (28)| many of 'Omar Khayyam's poems. ~
2474 2, Prol| to shore,~The lute of the poesy of the Masnavi sounded again.~
2475 4 (11)| as well known to Persian poets as to Shakespeare. ~
2476 6, 7 | Wherefore knowledge of these points is proper and useful.~Ah!
2477 1, 1 | command, gave the goldsmith a poisonous draught, which caused his
2478 2, 10 | For my sake, so that those poisons are now pure sweets; ~Since
2479 2, 3 | gained from God the name "Polestar of Gnostics."~What time
2480 3, 9 | afterwards the chief of the police visited the mountains in
2481 2, Prol| This Masnavi, which is the polisher of spirits,~Its recommencement
2482 1 (3) | jealousy He prohibits 'All pollutions, both outward and inward.'" (
2483 4, 9 | aspiration!~And schism and polytheism and duality disappear,~And
2484 5, 10 | in all their majesty and pomp,~Have gone to pieces in
2485 6, 7 | holder.~All your outcry and pompous claims and bustle~Only say, "
2486 6, 7 | living in a neighboring pond. 7 That he might be able
2487 3, 9 | But, strange to say, this ponderous hidden bond,~Blacksmiths
2488 5, 7 | From onion and saffron and poppy~The hand of spring will
2489 3, 18 | Masnavi.~A certain goose pops his head out of his coop, ~
2490 6, 7 | excluded him from God's portals.~Consider what Qarun gained
2491 6, 7 | extreme haste and bustle must portend the approach of an enemy
2492 4, 2 | distressed because he thought it portended the ruin of the building,
2493 6, 6 | If you have reason, that portent should suffice.~You have
2494 3, 13 | presage, ~On every side evil portents threatening punishment: ~
2495 1, 3 | said, "Give up all thou possessest,~For to be ruled by covetousness
2496 3, 12 | were reckoned as liars." 2 Possessing his soul in patience, Daquqi
2497 6, 6 | not two (for these two possibilities).~You have forgotten the
2498 6, 7 | hurried to Tirmid by relays of post-horses in the utmost haste, and
2499 1, 9 | yield wine?~Till citrons be pounded up with drugs,~How can they
2500 6, 4 | athirst on whose head is poured the water of life?" In truth,
2501 1, 7 | cries of us on earth?~Why pourest Thou sorrow on the heart
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