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3002 1, 12 | detail.~The leech skilled in setting bones goes~Where lies the
3003 2, 15 | him,~Rust five layers deep settles on his mirror,~Rust spots
3004 6, 4 | saying, "Perhaps eighteen, or seventeen, or sixteen, or even fifteen,"
3005 3, 17 | In the body there are seventy-and-two diseases; ~It is ill compacted
3006 5, 10 | faithful have been split into seventy-two sects.~But the man of conviction
3007 1, 16 | Nothing is bitterer than severance from Thee,~Without Thy shelter
3008 5, 10 | suspicion takes hold of you,~It severs you from hundreds of friends.~
3009 1 (1) | hearing the formula, "In sha Allah Ta'alla," or D. V. ~
3010 5 (7) | rejected both by Rumi and Shabistari in favor of the doctrine
3011 3, 2 | as camels whose feet are shackled,~When you loose their feet
3012 6, 6 | wall, saying, "Afford no shade!~Ward not off the pouring
3013 1, 14 | with an endless variety of shades and hues.~Knowledge of the
3014 6, 6 | forgotten the story of the "shadowing cloud." 6~God's command
3015 4 (11)| known to Persian poets as to Shakespeare. ~
3016 2, 3 | kings of equity.~And that Shakik starting from that junction~
3017 5, 8 | the king discomfited and shamefaced, even as the wicked who
3018 1, 2 | of the evil treachery and shamelessness.~They make stuffed lions
3019 1, 1 | compose the Masnavi.~The sun (Shams) of Tabriz is a perfect
3020 1, 1 | HIM should be conceivable?~Shamsu-'d-Din of Tabriz importunes
3021 1, 12 | of wood would not be duly shaped~Did not the carpenter plan
3022 1, 10 | obedience as his exemplar~Shares its proximity to the ineffable
3023 3, 13 | sees those of others; the sharp-eared deaf man hears death approaching
3024 2, 18 | like you," 2~While to his sharp-seeing heart "it hath been revealed."~
3025 3, 13 | and fixed ordinance, 9~As sharp-set teeth are caused by heat
3026 3, 8 | obtain a holiday, and the sharpest of them suggested that when
3027 3, 8 | mothers. Apropos of the sharpness of the boy who devised this
3028 3, 16 | How can a handful of sand shatter an army? ~The sand was in
3029 5, 1 | house the Prophet had seven she-goats to supply his family with
3030 5 (10)| Dabistan i Muzahib, by Shea and Troyer, iii. 281. ~
3031 4, 3 | pure gold to dread from the shears? ~If the base coin were
3032 2, 7 | anecdote of Bilkis, Queen of Sheba, whose reason was enlightened
3033 1, 15 | hath restored us to life!"~Shedding their old skins and bones,~
3034 1, 15 | of a spear glances off a shield.~For in that state all faith
3035 2, 3 | When Martaza ('Ali) shined with its reflection,~He
3036 2, 2 | the source of light which shineth always!~Distinguish well
3037 5, 10 | eyelash. 9~Thousands of ships, in all their majesty and
3038 4, 2 | Sibawayh, the grammarian of Shiraz says "Allah" is derived
3039 5, 5 | Ramin" and "Khosrau and Shirin"~To see what these fools
3040 4 (4) | Lucknow commentator, as usual, shirks the difficulty. ~
3041 2, 2 | himself.~Whatever makes you shiver, know he is in it,~The Devil
3042 5, 1 | himself. His friends were shocked at the thought of the Prophet
3043 6, 2 | very fowler and his trap shook with grief.~He said, "My
3044 6, 6 | far off.~The further a man shoots, the further off he is,~
3045 1, 13 | gold sit smiling in their shops,~Because the touchstone
3046 6, 4 | from duality and defect and shortcomings.~That Hilal is now exalted
3047 1, Prol| Therefore it behoves me to shorten my discourse.~Arise, O son!
3048 2, 13 | back, from dyspepsia, from shortness of breath, from nervous
3049 4, 4 | is limited. ~Since that shortsighted one judges by outward signs, ~
3050 2, 7 | profit from them,~But to shower my beneficence upon them.~
3051 1, 16 | darkened by itself.~If Thou showest not the way, our life is
3052 2, 10 | thereof. ~Wherefore this shrinking of the part from its whole? ~
3053 4, 2 | songs.~But while we are thus shrouded by gross earthly veils,~
3054 6, 7 | and warned him that if he shunned the advice and society of
3055 5, 13 | else is it stubbornness shunning obedience to God?~If you
3056 1, 5 | out, to be destruction.~He shuts the door after his foe is
3057 4, 2 | had before assisted him. Sibawayh, the grammarian of Shiraz
3058 4, 7 | had grown up,~He took a sickle and reaped the corn,~And
3059 3, 8 | with him on his alleged sickly appearance. Accordingly,
3060 3, 12 | telling David that he was siding with an oppressor. David
3061 6, 3 | interest.~In return for the sigh-wind that raised tear-clouds,~
3062 6, 9 | hand of his daughter.~The significance of forms. 2~Be not intoxicated
3063 5, 6 | are far beneath them in signification.~If an ordinary man 'take
3064 1 (1) | Love signifies the strong attraction that
3065 6, 5 | unseen,~Yet its bubbles signify its presence plainly.~In
3066 6, 5 | to his poverty, and was silenced by being asked whether she
3067 5, 4 | wines,~And also store of silken garments.~But Iblis said, "
3068 6, 6 | cast off these furs and silks,~And seek for a refuge from
3069 1, 5 | skill taught by God to the silkworm~Is a learning beyond the
3070 4, 6 | objects, but only the eye, and similarly the sensual eye, blinded
3071 6, 6 | cleverness, and consort with simple-mindedness!~
3072 1, 16 | of his own vengeance, but simply to carry out God's will,
3073 5, 10 | really men at all, but only simulacra or forms of men. For lack
3074 1, 2 | The birds hear that call simulating a bird's call,~And, descending
3075 3, 12 | men are cognizant of thy sin-burnt heart. ~Thy soul every moment
3076 4, 8 | Leaves clapping hands like singers.~These glories are a mirror
3077 6, 8 | to capture a strong fort single-handed through the power of God
3078 2, 1 | saith, "O people, through singleness of mind,~I ask of you no
3079 4, 2 | assure her that he had no sinister views regarding her, and
3080 3, 2 | heaven, ~Nor, like Korah, sinks into the earth; ~Who will
3081 3, 2 | honey draught thou hast sipped.~That road was perforce
3082 2, 12 | object, and said, "O noble sirs, kill my companion, and
3083 4, 2 | of the world above. ~Thy sisters have found the kingdom that
3084 4, 2 | moving of themselves to the site of the temple. Bilqis, Queen
3085 1, 15 | Therein 'The God of Mercy sitteth on His throne.' 5~Then God
3086 3, 9 | from itself, but from its situation.~Why, then, are you confident
3087 6, 4 | eighteen, or seventeen, or sixteen, or even fifteen," he would
3088 2, Prol| the year six hundred and sixty-two of the Flight.~The Bulbul
3089 4, 6 | serpent, swelled to the size of a hill. ~Yet look at
3090 1, 15 | life!"~Shedding their old skins and bones,~As horsemen stirring
3091 5, 8 | even as the wicked who have slandered the saints will be on the
3092 5 (16)| from A.D. 1150 to 1210. De Slane's Ibn Khallikan, ii. 652. ~
3093 4, 9 | this ass is killed in the slaughter-house~That kitchen will bestow
3094 3, 14 | said, "Mourn not for your slaughtered cattle~If a wolf has harried
3095 6, 9 | therefore able to free him from slavery.~The eldest prince at last
3096 1, 9 | was it when she stooped to slavish entreaties?~When she whose
3097 5, 13 | in lust." 12~O Ayaz, who slayest demons like a male lion,~
3098 5, 10 | where it was struck by the sleek appearance of the horses.
3099 6, 3 | are mourning for your own sleepiness!" To the truly spiritual,
3100 3, 10 | your commander ~Then your sleepless sense is lulled into sleep, ~
3101 2, 10 | O welcome weariness and sleeplessness by night!~Lo! God of His
3102 4, 5 | you.~To give counsel to a sleepy ignoramus~Is to sow seeds
3103 4, 4 | And sold as gold to men of slender wits. ~We who regard the
3104 6, 9 | king's exhortations,~And slighted his matchless intimations.~
3105 4, 4 | They saved their lives but slightly wounded themselves. ~On
3106 3, 9 | extricate myself from this deep slough." ~He repeats this prayer
3107 1, 5 | his luck. He took his way slowly to the lion, and found him
3108 1, 10 | not weak of heart,~Nor yet sluggish and lax as water and mud;~
3109 1, 3 | wakefulness is worse than slumbering.~Our wakefulness fetters
3110 2, 1 | it is dust makes the eyes smart.~Makers of base coin hate
3111 1, 1 | precious Soul caught my skirt,~Smelling the perfume of the garment
3112 4, 6 | gold-mine.~While you are now smiting your head in deep regret,~
3113 2, 15 | kettle,~It would show the smut, were it only as a grain
3114 3, 4 | anecdote is narrated: ~A snake-catcher, who was following his occupation
3115 3, 15 | worthless;~But beware lest death snatch away your capital!~Your
3116 1, 5 | blessings,~But fatalism snatches those blessings from your
3117 4, 2 | take your fill of love,~Snuff up that perfume of Yusuf!~
3118 1, 10 | His spirit is as a Simurgh soaring on high.~He lends aid to
3119 3, 2 | God-intoxicated are not sobered by old age, ~They remain
3120 6, 7 | is like a string tied to sod's foot,~That string drags
3121 1 (6) | its decrees sharply. See Sohravardi quoted in Notices et Extraits
3122 4, 6 | necessary to break up the soil; and in order to make a
3123 5, 1 | the thought of the Prophet soiling his sacred hands with such
3124 4, 4 | older and more experienced soldiers, and of the objections made
3125 3, 2 | But after ten years' solicitation he at length yielded, and
3126 3, 9 | in order to enjoy perfect solitude. In that place were many
3127 4, 2 | the world to come.~Part of Soloman's message to Bilqis.~Report
3128 6, 6 | voice came,~And God thus solved his difficulties,~Saying, "
3129 | somewhere
3130 2 (2) | Koran xviii. 110: "Say, in sooth I am only a man like you.
3131 5, 11 | and that it is just as sophistical to disbelieve the declarations
3132 2, 11 | to guard him against the sophistries of lblis, and again adjured
3133 4, 6 | then twits Moses with his sorceries in changing his staff into
3134 3, 14 | in the desert, and was in sore distress through lack of
3135 6, 5 | You will question that sorrow-fraught moment,~Saying to it, "O
3136 6, 9 | In order not to melt that soul-like body,~The Sun withdraws
3137 2, Prol| the poesy of the Masnavi sounded again.~This Masnavi, which
3138 5, 4 | hung his lip,~And frowned sourly like a bitter orange.~Then
3139 1, 12 | sweetness is shown by vinegar's sourness.~Whoso recognizes and confesses
3140 5, 7 | death, which is life,~Thou sowest thy seed in salt ground.~
3141 3, 1 | flesh he slew without mercy, sparing only the one who had been
3142 1, 16 | the struggle the Magian spat in his face. 'Ali, instead
3143 1, 2 | cut its flesh to extract a spear-head, 1~Causing a fresh skin
3144 5, 7 | pricking him with their spears,~And saying, "O dog, begone
3145 5, 11 | prohibitions to him, and by specially exempting some, such as
3146 4, 4 | Abul-Hasan Khirqani, and specified all the peculiar qualities
3147 3, 4 | immediately destroyed the spectators.~Comparison of fleshly lust
3148 2, 16 | transcended thought, ~Yea, I have sped beyond reach of thought. ~
3149 3, 18 | those attributes with all speed! ~You come from the clouds
3150 5, 10 | the lion's lair, where he speedily met his doom.~.~Men who
3151 2, 5 | hid from view.~The arrow speeds forth, yet the bow is not
3152 3, 17 | wisdom of God prevents this speedy end, ~And preserves their
3153 1 (2) | Bismillah upon it, and, after spending the night in prayer, found
3154 2, 11 | censures both of them;~A fourth spends his life in traducing the
3155 5, 8 | crooked footprint, and as the spider sees things distorted through
3156 2, 10 | from it,~Drink poison and spill the water of life.~Contemn
3157 3, 13 | work themselves lean as spindles. 15 ~When the merchant goes
3158 5, 5 | Ye came to earth from the spirit-world as sleeping children, seeing
3159 6, 9 | s voice.~But the perfect spiritualist who has broken his boat~
3160 4, 6 | Or again He makes your spittle as honey, ~So that you say, ''
3161 4, 2 | to hear the sound of the splash. 14 This is followed by
3162 4, 2 | lust,~And accordingly its splendor ever increased.~Yea, many
3163 3, 12 | and in hope to see the splendour of "The Friend" in human
3164 3, 12 | behold in human form the splendours of 'The Friend,' ~To witness
3165 5, 3 | from mutilating himself and spoiling his beauty in so wanton
3166 3, 11 | s decrees;~And this too spontaneously, not in hope of reward,~
3167 3, 18 | pushes them down with her spoon, saying, ~"Be still, and
3168 4, 6 | forms,~Like an infant I sported with playthings.~Well said
3169 6, 1 | afflicts children, or moths sporting with fire, or the pain of
3170 2, 15 | settles on his mirror,~Rust spots begin to gnaw his iron,~
3171 6, Prol| Behold the bright and fresh sprays of coral,~And the princely
3172 4, 2 | tuft of coarse grass had sprung up in a corner of the temple,
3173 5, 8 | distorted through the web he has spun himself The hug's conduct
3174 4, 1 | return of her husband. On the spur of the moment she threw
3175 5, 1 | words~"Beware of such, they spy out the heart."~Require
3176 3, 9 | this dire disgrace; ~I have squandered goods and gold and wealth. ~
3177 6, 7 | servant," 1 and when the first stage was completed He caused
3178 3, 12 | an oppressor. David was staggered at the man's assurance,
3179 2, 7 | Though the ruby has no stamp, what matters it?~Love is
3180 3, 2 | your friend of ten years' standing, the moment I knocked at
3181 2, 17 | buying "uzum" and "astaphil" (staphyle), respectively. Now all
3182 2, 10 | Bayazid replied, "At dawn I start for the Ka'ba."~Quoth the
3183 2, Prol| of the Flight.~The Bulbul started on this date and became
3184 5, 10 | water-carrier, which, after having starved and worked hard in its master'
3185 3, 11 | deaths~Are as sweetmeats to a starving beggar.~Why, therefore,
3186 3, 12 | prophet David. When he had stated his case, David ordered
3187 1, 10 | partition between us.'~Though he stave in thy boat, yet hold thy
3188 4, 6 | resemble in this stones and staves. ~The obedience of stone
3189 1, 5 | into the air.~How can it stay in the air? It returns to
3190 1, 16 | makes as a weed,~And in its stead He brings forth a rose.~
3191 5, 1 | yielded by one goat, and steadfastly refused to take more, saying
3192 6, 7 | annoyed with him for thus stealing a march upon them; but on
3193 4, 9 | therefore, is enabled to steer a better course in this
3194 3, 1 | are made invalid by such stenches, 1~That crooked heart is
3195 5, 7 | of death, who, being of sterner disposition than the others,
3196 2 (6) | copy reads Ba sati for Ma sti. ~
3197 5, 1 | into conflict with you, O stiff-necked one;~"Stand aloof and wait
3198 3, 15 | animals' languages might stimulate his faith. Moses was very
3199 4, 3 | dishonoring his master by his stinginess. The youth would not listen
3200 2, 6 | into angels.~Through love stings are as honey,~Through love
3201 6, 1 | because Ayaz received the stipend of thirty courtiers, and
3202 1, 15 | skins and bones,~As horsemen stirring up a cloud of dust.~All
3203 6, 9 | first he clung to the King's stirrup,~But at last went his way
3204 3, 13 | One must cling to the stirrup-straps of God. ~Ah! many are the
3205 5, 6 | insight into truth.~His stock of lore, which is the salve
3206 1, 3 | Mysteries of the Gospel, of stoles, of prayers.~He would preach
3207 5, 5 | through envy they be not stoned like Iblis. 5~Even in their
3208 5, 10 | ass who was grazing in a stony place where there was little
3209 1, 9 | face,~How was it when she stooped to slavish entreaties?~When
3210 4, 8 | them,~Because every ear is stopped with doubt.~To men of illusions
3211 5, 11 | love who ever succeeded in stopping them?~Be a lover, and seek
3212 6, 5 | body, like a rose-heap, a storehouse?~Thy body is a heap of roses,
3213 6, 3 | single grain, when ample stores of wheat are already at
3214 3, 5 | The wind of wrath and the storm blow out torches; ~Except
3215 4, 2 | Cleverness is as a wind raising storms of pride;~Be foolish, so
3216 3, 12 | refusing to do this, and stoutly protesting against David'
3217 3, 2 | sorrow and grief!~O careless straggler, bind a rope upon thy feet,~
3218 1, Prol| unhappy lovers;~Yea, its strains lay bare my inmost secrets.~
3219 3, 3 | Ye shall know them by the strangeness of their speech." 1 This
3220 4, 7 | Grain is out of place in the straw-yard,~And straw is useless in
3221 1, 8 | Sobriety is wrong, and a straying from that other road.~O
3222 3, 17 | feet of the Prince with streaming eyes. ~The people were all
3223 5, 12 | pleasure of wine. The noble strenuously denied this, saying that
3224 Note | replied with eloquence and strenuousness to those who denied its
3225 3, 9 | hunger no longer, and he stretched out his hand and plucked
3226 6, 2 | of wheat were that were strewed on the trap. The fowler
3227 3, 2 | spoke to them, saying, "O stricken ones!~The desires of all
3228 1 (1) | One cannot converse with a strict Mosalman for five minutes
3229 3, 1 | oath tells tales,~As it strikes the nostrils of them that
3230 3 (4) | murderer might be discovered by striking the corpse with a piece
3231 3, 9 | concealment; ~'Tis more stringent than prison or chains of
3232 5, 9 | with the bath should be stripped and searched. When the officers
3233 5, 12 | discover the eye-salve.~He strives earnestly with firm resolve
3234 3, 1 | messenger; ~Thy struggles and strivings for assistance ~Were my
3235 6, Prol| He who knows most has the strongest soul.~The world of souls
3236 5, 11 | the direction he is most strongly impelled to go; if he is
3237 2, 7 | and silver,~Know that he strove patiently to acquire it.~
3238 3, 1 | thine my messenger; ~Thy struggles and strivings for assistance ~
3239 3, 3 | scream like a peacock, or strut about gardens as peacocks
3240 5, 13 | trickery?~Or else is it stubbornness shunning obedience to God?~
3241 6, 4 | enjoined on those who would study God's Word aright. 2~Growth
3242 1, 2 | shamelessness.~They make stuffed lions to scare the simple,~
3243 1, 2 | feathers drop off, and so stunned it that it lost the power
3244 4, 2 | tale of Saba in lovers' style.~When the breeze bore Solomon'
3245 5, 10 | fasting and abstinence to subdue the carnal lusts which lead
3246 1, 9 | how is it then?~She who subdues us with her pride and severity,~
3247 3, 6 | mystic must not stop at mere subjective religious emotions, but
3248 2, 14 | when one of his former subjects passed by and marvelled
3249 3 (8) | nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd, ~To vital spirits aspire,
3250 1, 5 | them sucking milk of that sublime knowledge.~But God drops
3251 6, 6 | opposite of humility and submission,~Quit cleverness, and consort
3252 3, 10 | subdued by you, ~When you submit to reason as your commander ~
3253 1, 9 | in naught but bloodshed~Submits at last, ah! what a profit
3254 1, 4 | Second causes only operate in subordination to, ~and form the impulsion
3255 6, 3 | negation is to attain to subsequent affirmation, as the negation
3256 1, 9 | seemingly~opposed to Unity, subserve Good.~The story is now concluded,
3257 6 (2) | in the Divine mind, "the Substantial forms" of the Realist philosophy.
3258 1, 16 | cause you to forget, we substitute better for them.' 2~Whatever
3259 6, 1 | and the girl, but at night substituted for the girl a boy dressed
3260 1 (8) | the Noumenon, or Divine substratum of all phenomenal being
3261 3, 18 | The Deadly Mosque.~~In the suburbs of a certain city there
3262 4, 2 | attain full growth,~They will subvert you and your temple together.~
3263 5, 3 | One after another, the succeeding ones better than the former.~
3264 3, 13 | harshless. ~Oftentimes hope succeeds to hopelessness, ~Many times
3265 6, 6 | At last, despairing of success by his own unaided efforts,
3266 1, 15 | mixed honey with vinegar,~To succour the sickness of your hearts.~
3267 2, 3 | his march.~When Junaid was succoured by the forces of that light,~
3268 3, 17 | them. ~The earthy sign 9 succours the terrestrial earth, ~
3269 5, 4 | Defender."~God gave him succulent and sweet and costly wines,~
3270 3, 3 | the result that they both succumbed to the charms of the daughters
3271 4, 2 | the Prophet, how he was suckled by Halima, a woman of the
3272 3, 18 | you boil in trials and sufferings ~That neither existence
3273 6, 6 | reason, that portent should suffice.~You have sight indeed,
3274 3, 14 | single water-skin, so that it sufficed to supply the needs of all
3275 4, 2 | feet of Mustafa,~Say, "God Sufficeth me, for He, is sufficient
3276 5, 10 | broken his idols, had not a sufficiently rooted faith to leap, like
3277 3, 14 | from misfortune.~What is Sufiism? 'Tis to find joy in the
3278 6, 9 | Esteem not yourself mere sugar-cane, but real sugar.~This outward '
3279 1, 3 | amongst them. The Vazir's suggestion was adopted. 1 He fled to
3280 1, 1 | embrace, nor form.~Press thy suit, yet with moderation;~A
3281 5, 8 | tell me truly, O ardent suitor!"~He answered, "I am so
3282 6, 1 | the girl in marriage many suitors presented themselves, and
3283 3, 18 | When the Wind heard the summons, it came swiftly, ~And the
3284 4, 6 | mere mote floating in the sunbeams? ~How know you that the
3285 2, 1 | and joined in the chorus sung by the others, "The ass
3286 3, 13 | hopelessness, ~Many times does sunlight succeed to darkness. ~We
3287 3, 8 | with the doctrine of the Sunnis, that the innate capacities
3288 1, 1 | We can conceive similar suns like to it.~But the Sun
3289 5, 1 | sincerity, and asked him to sup with him again. At supper
3290 2, 7 | thou dwell on words and superficialities?~A burning heart is what
3291 2, 1 | his minute directions were superfluous, and promised to attend
3292 2, 16 | voice of your kinsman. ~Superiority and kinsmanship are both
3293 6, 6 | of our 'Isa (Unity)~Shall supersede the jar of many-colored
3294 5, 9 | the old love for sin being superseded by the new love for holiness.
3295 5, 1 | to sup with him again. At supper he drank only half the portion
3296 Note | Note on Apocryphal Supplements to the Masnavi.~In the Lucknow
3297 6, 9 | heaven.~Then the angels supplicate God, saying,~"O Thou that
3298 6, 9 | O God!'~In this way by supplication and lamentation~He prevails
3299 3, 13 | Eat ye of your Lord's supplies, and give thanks to Him;
3300 5 (7) | supporter, there can be nothing supported." ~
3301 6, 9 | these are both erroneous suppositions; and just as arithmeticians
3302 1, 4 | who is referred to in the Sura "Signs of the Zodiac," I
3303 5, 6 | Ha, Mim prefixed to some Suras~Resemble the staff of Moses,
3304 6 (2) | Surat, or "form," means picture,
3305 1, 13 | He took his own foolish surmises to be the truth, whereas
3306 Note (1) | Darvesh of the Maulavi order, surnamed Anguravi, from his native
3307 1, 7 | for this cause,~That God surpasseth the world in jealousy.~God
3308 1, 8 | An uplifting of the heart surpassing all uplifting;~I cannot
3309 5, 13 | self-surrender to His will, and this surrender of self will bring with
3310 5, 13 | earthly forms which here surround us are, as it were, vessels
3311 4, 2 | With his guards of state surrounding his palace,~Though he needed
3312 3, 13 | drowned on the voyage or a survivor?~Reveal to me in which class
3313 5, 10 | fancies;~Why do you thus suspect your true friends?~Think
3314 3, 2 | Hadis, "Caution consists in suspecting others." 1 But after ten
3315 5, 10 | are no dregs;~These vain suspicions are not becoming.~All this
3316 5, 1 | Making hundreds of people suspicious,~And giving a bad name to
3317 4, 2 | ever looking to Allah to sustain them in existence. The poet,
3318 3, 15 | honor Adam,' 1~Half the swarm become bees and half wasps.~
3319 5, 2 | or the Logos, and those swayed by partial or carnal reason;
3320 1, 9 | Because the animal nature sways their temperament.~Love
3321 2, 1 | For, as it is wrong to swear by a transitory being,~How
3322 3, 1 | man speaks.~Though thou swearest, saying, "When have I eaten?~
3323 2, 2 | of carpets, sometimes of sweepers.~Sometimes thoughts of mills,
3324 3, 1 | That his mouth might be sweetened thereby, ~And Satan said
3325 5, 5 | people from envy!~Lovers of sweethearts have conceived jealousy,~
3326 2, 10 | and praise ~Ever warble sweetly around this garden; ~Since
3327 4, 6 | You are an evil serpent, swelled to the size of a hill. ~
3328 3, 9 | There is naught that swerves from my purpose."~There
3329 5, 10 | Jews changed into apes and swine by 'Isa. 4 The fox was received
3330 4, 9 | When Gabriel beheld him swooning with fear,~He came and clasped
3331 4, 4 | It would have perished of sword-wounds, like a man's." ~The man
3332 1, 17 | roses should turn to sharp swords.~When bread is "substance,"
3333 6, 9 | confuted by the Prophet, who swore "by the star" that the Koran
3334 1, Prol| the flute?~Who hath seen a sympathetic consoler like the flute?~
3335 2, 8 | believed not.~If from a sympathizer, to whom it is well known,~
3336 2, 8 | who was not one of the sympathizers,~Saw the moon split asunder,
3337 2, 8 | is ignorant and without sympathy,~However much I show him
3338 3, 15 | Men of delusions are a synonym for death.~In the world
3339 2, 11 | treacherous understanding with the Syrian monk Abu Amir, and therefore
3340 6 (4) | Because, as Sir T. Browne says, "God is all
3341 1 (1) | the formula, "In sha Allah Ta'alla," or D. V. ~
3342 4 (8) | three classes: Dahriyun, Tabayiun, and Ilahiyun. Schmolders,
3343 1, 6 | palace, but in a spiritual tabernacle, only visible to purified
3344 1, 16 | fates,~Repel us not from the tables of purity!~O God, Thy grace
3345 3, 17 | his place!' ~My hand is a tabor and my belly a drum, ~Like
3346 2, 12 | one duly pronounced the Takbir, and was saying his prayers
3347 1, 10 | water and mud;~But if thou takest umbrage at every rub,~How
3348 6, Prol| them back.~Of these Abu Talib, the Prophet's uncle, was
3349 3, 18 | secure thyself from his talons! ~The Koran cries out even
3350 2, 5 | thirsty man discovered a tank of water, but could not
3351 4, 1 | this, a story follows of a tanner who was accustomed to bad
3352 1, 5 | enraged. In excuse for his tardy arrival he represented that
3353 4, 6 | mind the divine stroke that tarries not."~God made the Nile
3354 1, 7 | Would show disrespect by tarrying at the doorway.~If the king
3355 3, 5 | Do you part them, the task is beyond me." ~Questions
3356 6 (10)| Caucase," as M. Garcin de Tassy calls it, means "thirty
3357 6, 7 | string;~Ah! what sorrow it tastes through being dragged back~
3358 2, 7 | must burn every moment,~As tax and tithe are levied on
3359 3, 8 | controvert the opinion of the Mu'tazalites, that all m en are born
3360 6, 6 | death and resurrection.~Till tbe jar of pure wine of our '
3361 6, 3 | the sigh-wind that raised tear-clouds,~God gave Abraham the title
3362 4, 6 | in deep regret,~And now tearing your beard to think of your
3363 1, 7 | my eyes, like seas, may teem with pearls.~The tears which
3364 6, 5 | Pregnant women and their teeming wombs~Tell tales of love
3365 1, 9 | animal nature sways their temperament.~Love and tenderness are
3366 5, 3 | Exceed not," 6 to enjoin temperance.~When there is no subject,~
3367 6 (2) | A wine cup tempered at the camphor fountain
3368 2, 3 | soul bearing pearls in the tempest of the flood.~By that light
3369 6, 5 | were no cursed Satan to tempt them astray?~Rustam and
3370 3, 18 | not improbably Satan was tempting him to his own destruction,
3371 1, 1 | and the prince had her tended by divers physicians. As,
3372 1, 2 | of the former arises from tending the body,~That of the latter
3373 5, 6 | is as one with ruptured tendons.~That footman is only "carried
3374 2, 1 | One" as your ball in his tennis-field,~It is made to revolve by
3375 1, 3 | each scroll of a different tenor;~The rules of each of a
3376 5, 7 | through deadly fear;~Yea, tens of founts of tears through
3377 5, 13 | himself was as the dog at the tent-door.~When the sea of love to
3378 3, 13 | If you use a sword for a tent-peg, ~You prefer the worse use
3379 3, 17 | earthy sign 9 succours the terrestrial earth, ~The watery sign (
3380 5, 13 | darkness.~That idea of light terrifies it,~And makes it cling to
3381 2, 10 | sweet garden instead of a terror. ~He will infuse into your
3382 3, 18 | their chiefs, and that the terrors of death did not appal him
3383 5, 12 | house of a very austere and testy devotee. This devotee called
3384 6, 6 | ordain a punishment for the Thamud,~Namely, an earthquake which
3385 3, 17 | and goal of the spirit ~I thank thee that thou hast come
3386 3, 14 | discontent was turned into thankfulness to God, who had thus miraculously
3387 2, 7 | thou offerest praises or thanksgivings,~And know them to be even
3388 3, 4 | to see it, and the snake, thawed by the warmth of the sun,
3389 6, Prol| plain.~Primal Soul is the theatre of God's court,~Soul of
3390 3, 12 | came up and accused him of theft, and seizing him by the
3391 1, 10 | Director is not weaker than theirs;~His hand is none other
3392 5, 7 | according to the canons of theological interpretation, it was not
3393 1, 3 | fancy.~The twelve volumes of theology.~ ~~He drew up a separate
3394 1 (1) | John of the Cross and St. Theresa enjoin obedience to the
3395 4, 4 | elude the clutches of greedy thieves; ~Many are the copper coins
3396 3, 17 | found no second to thee. ~Thirdly, that when I had departed
3397 6, Prol| to his nature."~Art thou thirsting for the Ocean of spirituality?~
3398 3, 13 | they enjoyed. Accordingly thirteen prophets were sent to admonish
3399 5, 10 | precepts heard, but not thoroughly understood and taken to
3400 5, 10 | he, that great man who threaded jewels of interpretation,~
3401 2, 10 | put to silence by their threats!"~Pain is a treasure, for
3402 4, 7 | thou hast constructed a threshing-floor?"~Moses said, "O Lord, Thou
3403 1, Prol| wailing is heard in every throng,~In concert with them that
3404 | Throughout
3405 4, 4 | him 'beside himself, ~And thrust the thorn into his own eyes."~
3406 2, 2 | decree of Allah might be thwarted.~That the prophet Moses
3407 6, Prol| me from Thee,~Else these tides of will had rested still,
3408 1, 5 | voice,~'Trust in God, yet tie the camel's leg.'1~Hear
3409 2, 10 | dirhams;~See them tied up tightly in the corner of my cloak."~
3410 6, 7 | impurity.~Strike the poor man timely blows,~Which may save him
3411 3, 13 | of the heart, that is a timid trader,~Acquires neither
3412 6, 1 | were, been kindled on the tinder-box of bitter experience, but
3413 1, 14 | longer than the rouge of the tirewoman.~Nevertheless, if you bear
3414 1, 1 | rule of his canon to say, 'To-morrow.'~Can it be that thou art
3415 2, 2 | of the light of God, to tone down its brilliance, and
3416 6, 5 | members have a thousand tongues.~Inquire the detail of the
3417 6, 9 | without form,~Form is only a tool in His hands.~Sometimes
3418 2, 1 | wheat sown on sand.~The tools of a cobbler in the hand
3419 3, 17 | souls and intellects. ~The tops of the perfect trees reach
3420 2, 16 | is awake;~My body, though torpid, is instinct with energy.~
3421 4, 4 | utter similar speeches; ~The torrent of madness bore away his
3422 5, 11 | his slaves were put to the torture to make them reveal where
3423 6, 4 | this offence his master tortured him by exposing him to the
3424 3, 18 | pot, ~How they jump and toss about in the heat of the
3425 2, 4 | should fail to tell the total of these resurrections. 3~:~
3426 3, 11 | much, that, whereas the totality of actions~Is not effected
3427 1, Prol| swoon."~Did my Beloved only touch me with his lips,~I too,
3428 5, 13 | touched his heart, but it touches your ears only.~The thesis
3429 | toward
3430 2, 10 | who lived m the various towns that lay on his route. At
3431 3, 2 | hospitality from one of the townsmen. At his departure the villager
3432 4, 6 | Every ass who does not prove tractable. ~It turns into a serpent
3433 1, 9 | begins to plead?~When she who traded in naught but bloodshed~
3434 3, 13 | the heart, that is a timid trader,~Acquires neither loss nor
3435 3, 13 | The final cause of trading is hope or probability, ~
3436 2, 14 | his way he met a certain tradition-monger, who questioned him about
3437 4, 2 | loads you with reproach. 31~Traditional knowledge, when inspiration
3438 1, 10 | find it in the road of the traditionists.~That man enjoys close proximity
3439 2, 11 | fourth spends his life in traducing the others.~Every one mentions
3440 6, 9 | the King awoke out of his trance to consciousness,~His Mars-like
3441 5 (7) | encyc1opedia of philosophy (trans. by Dieterici). ~
3442 2, 16 | thoughts, ~Because I have transcended thought, ~Yea, I have sped
3443 2, 16 | my shadow; ~My exaltation transcends your thoughts, ~Because
3444 4, 8 | Earth and heavens will be transfigured before you. 4~I am ever
3445 2, 16 | But if he eat all four he transgresses the mean,~A very slave to
3446 4, 2 | Thou hast caused my sin and transgression."~Read the text, "Lord,
3447 5 (12)| The Bulaq translator renders An naward thus. ~
3448 3 (5) | perishes to feed and be transmuted into animal, , and in like
3449 1, 5 | a man who got Solomon to transport him to Hindustan to escape
3450 5, 4 | Saying, "Take these other traps, O cursed one."~But Iblis
3451 4, 5 | man, like a woman in her travail,~Gave vent to lamentations
3452 1, 9 | make. Accordingly the Arab travelled to Bagdad, and laid his
3453 2, 1 | the pure grain on their tray.~Infidel and faithful, Mosalman
3454 2, 11 | Kuba, near Medina, and a treacherous understanding with the Syrian
3455 2, 10 | prayers and fasting,~It is treacherously laying a snare for you.'~
3456 1, 3 | love to be wide awake is treason.~The more a man is awake,
3457 6, 6 | Men overlook the spiritual treasures close to them, and for this
3458 1, 3 | persuading them that he had been treated in that barbarous way on
3459 5, 10 | friends.~If a tender friend treats you roughly to try you,~'
3460 1, 5 | show him the foe who had trespassed on his preserves. Pretending
3461 2, 2 | I blind their eyes with tresses and moles."~In this prison
3462 6, 5 | they must not let their tribulations blot out the memory of God'
3463 5, 4 | any amount of ransom and tribute that he might impose upon
3464 3, 17 | The bird of each part tries to fly away to its origin; ~
3465 6, Prol| this irresolution!~Thou triest me; O give me aid!~For men
3466 4, 6 | She then proceeded to trim them short, according to
3467 5, 10 | poet apologizes for the trivial illustrations he uses by
3468 3, 12 | in God. ~With bare feet I trod upon thorns and flints, ~
3469 5, 4 | him gold and silver and troops of horses~Saying, "You can
3470 6, Prol| kneaded in the limits of a trough,~Yet was he exalted above
3471 5, 11 | but altered into a pair of trousers. The truth is, that whatever
3472 5 (10)| Dabistan i Muzahib, by Shea and Troyer, iii. 281. ~
3473 3, 5 | it was like. One felt its trunk, and declared that the beast
3474 2, 16 | lover of my soul, ~This truth-fraught saying of mine is no vain
3475 4, 2 | One day he observed that a tuft of coarse grass had sprung
3476 1, 6 | bloom;~He speaks to the tulip, and makes it blossom.~He
3477 3, 1 | ejaculations. ~Ah! excite not a tumult, lest I tell forth openly ~
3478 1, 6 | soul~Cleaves mountains with tunnels and mines.~The might of
3479 1, 13 | s aid how came that blue turban 2 on thy brow?~Whosoever
3480 1 (2) | Blue turbans were considered a sign of
3481 5, 11 | agents. Satan resembles the Turkoman's dog who sits at the door
3482 1, 9 | all ourselves!~"Whatsoever turneth from God is turned from
3483 1, 9 | the rose's beauty,~But the turtle-dove's cooing is a part of that
3484 1, 14 | Prophet,~Without book, without tutor, without preceptor.~The
3485 5, 6 | deaf man who listens laughs twice over;~The first time from
3486 3, 9 | the snare and the limed twig,~And yet fall into it, whether
3487 2, 11 | Mercy and vengeance are twin divine attributes, and they
3488 4, 1 | a begging; ~Till in the twinkling of an eye an arrow pierces
3489 5, 4 | order to bind men in my twisted rope~So firmly that Thy
3490 4, 6 | caught him. Pharaoh then twits Moses with his sorceries
3491 5, 12 | that spiritual pleasures, typified by wine, are not to be bartered
3492 6, 5 | a tailor. The Turk, who typifies the careless pleasure-seeker,
3493 6, 5 | amusing stories of the tailor, typifying the seductive world, that
3494 1, 4 | STORY IV. Another Tyrannical Jewish King.~A certain Jewish
3495 1, 6 | his companions from the tyranny of the lion, in the manner
3496 3, 10 | saying of the Prophet, "The 'ulama of the faith are as the
3497 1, 10 | mud;~But if thou takest umbrage at every rub,~How wilt thou
3498 2, 17 | country with his mission unaccomplished. He then, as a last resource,
3499 5, 5 | with Muhammad, and whoso is unaffected by that spiritual drink
3500 4, 3 | reason of its being left unanswered. He wrote in all five letters,
3501 5, 7 | me the garment of being unasked,~Wherefore I firmly trust
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