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3502 4, 1 | that as from her coming unattended it was plain that the lady
3503 5, 13 | he may entertain angels unawares. This is illustrated by
3504 6, 9 | heresy (Bid'at) and obstinate unbelief are like to incur the punishment
3505 3, 5 | passing by."~Noah and his unbelieving son Canaan.~Noah cried, "
3506 5, 6 | unlike human ability, is unbounded and infinite.~
3507 2, 13 | urn will not always return unbroken from the well.~Seeing that
3508 3, 5 | head is shaken by the wind uncertainly. ~Your foot stands not firmly
3509 2, 12 | Ah! you have spoken words unconnected with worship, and therefore,
3510 5, 11 | recompense." The Magian, unconvinced by the arguments of the
3511 2, 7 | Whoso is seen enjoying uncounted gold and silver,~Know that
3512 6, 5 | ecstatic states and words)~Are undeniable proofs of a previous "union;"~
3513 6, 3 | Then follow exhortations to undergo "the pains of negation,"
3514 5, 5 | and all the toils he had undergone for her sake, and inquired
3515 3, 13 | I shall be.~I shall not undertake the voyage on the chance~
3516 3, 13 | no trade at all will be undertaken by you,~As the secret of
3517 6 (3) | refused the burden. Man undertook to bear it, but bath proved
3518 4, 3 | discernment;~I will make their undiscerning reason to see clearly.~Although
3519 1, 2 | former's face shows his undisciplined self-will.~Watch the face
3520 2, 1 | Blind imitation of them has undone me.~Cursed be that blind
3521 5, 1 | gold itself, genuine and undoubted.~These prayers and holy
3522 Note | was satisfied that it was undoubtedly a composition of the author
3523 6, 5 | Prophet himself to attribute undue power to the idols Lat and '
3524 6, 6 | to excess,~You magnified unduly the bowman's art,~Go! abandon
3525 1, 9 | brought about,~Was a thing unequalled by the expansion of the
3526 2, 1 | member is the "One,"~An uneven number, One without dispute!~
3527 1, 1 | most things clear,~But love unexplained is clearer.~When pen hasted
3528 5, 7 | Independently of my faith or unfaith, good or evil,~Independently
3529 6, 9 | story of the princes remains unfinished,~The pearl of the third
3530 2, 1 | Consequently he was weak and unfit to travel next morning,
3531 2, 8 | crush them utterly; but unfortunately the flies escaped, and the
3532 4, 7 | they make the vulgar more ungodly than before, even as the
3533 5, 12 | one day received him very ungraciously, only half rising from his
3534 6, 9 | when he grew up he proved ungrateful, and was puffed up with
3535 5, 1 | men and women,~Thou art ungrudging in bounties, O Hearer of
3536 1, Prol| is the confidant of all unhappy lovers;~Yea, its strains
3537 2, 16 | of that kinsman. ~But the uninspired fool who from ignorance ~
3538 5, 13 | death in such a cause would unite them with God, and that
3539 5, 13 | pardoning his fault and uniting him with the damsel to whom
3540 4, 2 | O Lord, we have dealt unjustly." 27~He made no vain excuses
3541 3, 2 | Whether known to us or unknown, are all from Thee!~Thou
3542 5, 13 | he has mortified self and unlearnt to say "I" in the sense
3543 1 (2) | Syad Abu'l Wafa, an unlettered Kurd, found a paper with
3544 6, 6 | sovereignty.~Therefore He gave him unlimited purity and light,~And on
3545 2, 18 | When he knows not that it unlocks the blessed showers,~His
3546 6, Prol| falcon be all white and unmatched in form,~If he hunts mice
3547 5 (1) | were one of the principal unorthodox sects. See Sale, Prelim.
3548 2, 10 | me~From the visit of this unparalleled King.~O blessed pain and
3549 2, 7 | attached to requirements unpleasant to us,~Hell is attached
3550 3, 6 | is now pleasing and now unpleasing~Is at one time water, at
3551 3, 5 | injustice suggest thoughts ~And unprecedented difficulties to your imagination. ~
3552 4 (26)| But is it unreasonable to confess that we believe
3553 1, 5 | palace.~Ah! sleep not, O unreflecting fatalists,~Till ye have
3554 2 (15)| introduction to the Nafahatu-'l Uns, Jami says there are always
3555 6, 9 | heaven subsist upon, not the unspiritual food of Christians and those
3556 5, 10 | eloquent,~It hides within it unsteadiness in the faith.~In order to
3557 5, 10 | aright,~While himself He is unsteady as a reed shaken by wind.~
3558 6, 9 | the third brother remains unstrung.~Here speech, like a camel,
3559 3, 2 | But thy ingratitude and unthankfulness~Forget the honey draught
3560 4, 8 | promise, had come to an untimely end. On awaking he was rejoiced
3561 3, 12 | Know'st thou what is meat untoiled for?~'Tis the food of spirits
3562 6, 9 | Part of the story remains untold; it was retained~In his
3563 3, 5 | hear Him speaking ~Words unutterable by tongue in speech. ~Keep
3564 5, 1 | In fasting only to entrap unwary birds;~Making hundreds of
3565 5, 1 | night the infidel felt very unwell in consequence of having
3566 3, 17 | clouds to it, ~To draw off unwholesome exhalations. ~The fiery
3567 2, 10 | While Guebers worship Him unwillingly, ~Their real aim and purpose
3568 2, 18 | fixed on the running stream,~Unwitting of the sweetness of the
3569 3, 15 | the dog, losing patience, upbraided the cock as the chief of
3570 1, 9 | that fools, again, hold the upper hand over women,~Because
3571 4, 3 | Fear not, for thou shalt be uppermost (over Pharaoh's magicians) '". 4~
3572 1 (8) | the Logos, and First Soul, upposed to be referred to in the
3573 5, 5 | bent double by envy~Give uprightness in the path of duty,~Give
3574 1, 7 | from the east,~Art seen uprising anew, like a bright fountain!~
3575 6, Prol| life (soul),~They would uproot your love to all the old
3576 1, 9 | now concluded, with its ups and downs,~Like lovers'
3577 3, 1 | Turn the realm of Pharaoh upside down? ~And if it were not
3578 2, 13 | ones dwell in you,~Your urn will not always return unbroken
3579 6, 9 | language,~A demon, though he usurp his kingdom, is quite another.~
3580 3 (1) | from the Masjid." (Mishkat ut Masabih, ii. 321). ~
3581 5, 6 | trainer, hidden by the mirror, utters the words, and the parrot,
3582 4, 8 | an anecdote of Ezra or 'Uzair and his sons. 5 On his return
3583 2, 17 | the Greek were for buying "uzum" and "astaphil" (staphyle),
3584 6, 5 | power to the idols Lat and 'Uzza and Manat, in a verse which
3585 4, 2 | warding off robbers and vagabonds;~For he who is a just king
3586 1, 9 | abstinent, abstinent from vague thoughts,~Since there are
3587 1, 14 | bear not that burden out of vainglory,~Then you will behold a
3588 6, 9 | son, Bahau-'d-Din Sultan Valad:~Part of the story remains
3589 5, 13 | the people will admire my valor and self-devotion."~I said, "
3590 1, 10 | confide not in thy lion-like valour,~But seek refuge under the
3591 2, 7 | ass,~Make not thy lust to vanquish thy reason.~Leave thy natural
3592 4, 9 | earthquakes proceed from earth's vapors."~~Just so an ant who saw
3593 1, 4 | Cause.~Praise compared to vapour drawn upwards, ~and then
3594 6, 6 | Whatever enters it loses its varied hues.~On the text, "Verily
3595 3, 8 | innate capacities of men vary very greatly.~
3596 6, 5 | foam on the surface of the vast ocean. Moreover, every misfortune
3597 1 (1) | obedience to the Director (Vaughan, xii. 122). ~
3598 2, 1 | though you proclaim them vauntingly;~Wisdom averts its face
3599 4, 2 | pieces of gold. These two vazirs recall Asaf, the good vazir
3600 5, 11 | door of the tent, and is" vehement against aliens, but full
3601 5, 7 | sayest.~But in mercy Thou veilest my sins,~Otherwise my vileness
3602 2, 1 | the night" mean Muhammad's veiling,~Namely, the fair earthly
3603 2, 10 | age" in the person of a venerable Darvesh, with whom he held
3604 5, 13 | breast,~And without mouth vented the following complaints:~"
3605 5, 11 | motion of its wings,~You venture not to stir from your place,~
3606 3, 13 | neither loss nor gain by its ventures. 13 ~Nay, it acquires loss,
3607 2, 16 | O beloved, ~Proves the veracity of that kinsman. ~But the
3608 2, 1 | its truth.~Till it is thus verified, take it not from your friends;~
3609 5, 13 | may cleanse thy garment of vermin,~And mend thy shoes, and
3610 5, 1 | chastisements, and vice versa, and it is only men of deep
3611 6, 2 | life.~I am a lover well versed in lovers' madness,~I am
3612 4, 2 | above story, is only another version of the story of the thirsty
3613 1, 5 | and die again,~These wa,ves cast themselves back into
3614 6, 6 | cold,~So that this warm vest may become to your body~
3615 1, 9 | wife lust and greed;~She is vested with darkness and a gainsayer
3616 1 (6) | i.e., the vestibule of the house. ~
3617 1, 3 | And fancied him to be the Vicar of Christ;~Yea, him, that
3618 5, 1 | in His chastisements, and vice versa, and it is only men
3619 6, 6 | about to place a Khalifa or Vicegerent on earth" 3.~Whereas the
3620 2, 3 | Wherefore Adam made him his viceroy when he saw it.~When Noah
3621 6, 2 | but their own errors and vices.~The bird's cries to God
3622 6, 5 | were no temptations to be vicious. As Bishop Butler says,
3623 2, 10 | Have ye not said, "We are victims, ~Mere nothings before eternal
3624 2, 3 | time King Mansur became victorious, 12~He left his throne and
3625 3, 4 | magicians of Egypt, and his victory over them. In the course
3626 6, Prol| How could this fear have vied with God's attraction?~O
3627 3, 2 | around that door, be not viler than a dog,~If thou wouldest
3628 2, 2 | thoughts of mills, gardens, and villas,~Sometimes of clouds and
3629 2, 1 | form,~As children see in a vine nothing but raisins.~O son,
3630 5, 10 | because he used to take only a vine-leaf to break his fast. He dwelt
3631 3, 17 | for houses, gardens, and vineyards; ~The love of the soul is
3632 6, 9 | returned home and knocked violently at the door, and the Qazi,
3633 5, 7 | will hang his head like the violet,~With tears starting from
3634 5, 13 | Grant that he lacked the virility of asses,~Yet God esteemed
3635 4, 4 | of spiritual gifts being visibly beside himself;~Said, "There
3636 2, 10 | pilgrimage to Mecca, and visiting all the "Pillars of insight"
3637 4, 2 | fetch it, but Asaf, the vizier anticipated him. 3 Afterwards
3638 1, 8 | privy to secrets,~Nor is it vocal in response to lip and breathing.~
3639 3, 18 | replied to him, "O sweet voiced one, ~You must hear the
3640 5, 1 | within,~Inspect the water voided by the sick man.~Acts and
3641 1, 3 | with each fancy.~The twelve volumes of theology.~ ~~He drew
3642 2, 16 | very slave to greed, and voracious as a duck.~Whoso has an
3643 5, 10 | this exalted faith was only vouchsafed to a few great saints, because
3644 1 (9) | Those arrows were God's, not vours" (Koran viii. 17); i.e.,
3645 5, 13 | unprofitable servant.~I have vowed to God never to quit this
3646 6, 9 | the special conveyance of voyagers by sea.~Silence is this
3647 4 (26)| Jacobi, quoted in Sir W. Hamilton's Lectures on
3648 1 (2) | Syad Abu'l Wafa, an unlettered Kurd, found
3649 5, 13 | world and applied himself to wage the "greater warfare" against
3650 6, 7 | in his beard, for when he wagged it he could deliver criminals
3651 5, 13 | away as soon as a mouse wags its tail.~Such persons must
3652 5 (7) | intimate union (Ittihad or Wahdat). ~
3653 6, 9 | united to Yusuf;~If she wailed, 'twas that she was separated
3654 2, 15 | of his fault,~So that he wails and cries 'O Allah!'~When
3655 5, 5 | another's lives,~Read " Wais and Ramin" and "Khosrau
3656 1, 4 | God's presence fire ever waits to do its service,~Like
3657 6, 9 | is better than a hundred walking-sticks,~Eye discerns jewels from
3658 5, 2 | had not fed him from the wallet of food which he had in
3659 2 (5) | the Phaedo, "Many are the wandbearers, but few the Mystics." ~
3660 3, 5 | salvation at God's hands, O wanderer, ~You are free from the
3661 6, 5 | knowledge serve to guide the wanderers;~Were there but one road
3662 5, 6 | from his long and distant wanderings~He says, "Lo! this was the
3663 6, 9 | lovingly,~And he like a moon waned in that sun.~That waning
3664 1, 9 | heaven.~Other details are wanting to complete this subject,~
3665 5, 3 | Disfigure not thy face in wantonness, O fair one!~That face which
3666 2, 10 | prayer and praise ~Ever warble sweetly around this garden; ~
3667 1, 15 | More honour is given to the warder of a castle who faithfully
3668 4, 2 | guards for the purpose~Of warding off robbers and vagabonds;~
3669 6, 6 | nourishes your body~And wards off the darts of hunger
3670 5, 13 | the 'lesser;'~Both these warfares have their Rustams and Haidars.~
3671 5, 6 | food for themselves, and to warn their hearers of spiritual
3672 3, 13 | utter these presages and warnings, ~But our bonds are made
3673 4, 1 | of hidden virtues is not warranted by actual facts. You are
3674 6, 6 | And their opposing camps warred and fought one another.~
3675 4, 4 | be captain of a band of warriors amongst whom were many older
3676 6, 4 | and earthly qualities, and washed in the fountain of the water
3677 3, 17 | heart of the Prince? ~A wave washes away the remembrance of
3678 3, 2 | thee a form whilst thou wast in her womb,~In her womb
3679 6, 5 | of death, but because of wasted opportunities in life."
3680 5, 1 | light fills deserts and wastes.~That witness of his is
3681 3, 9 | free from bonds, ~No jailer watches him, no chain binds him; ~
3682 6, 2 | of the need for constant watchfulness, in order to avoid the snares
3683 3, 17 | too cries, "Where is the water-drinker?" ~This thirst in my soul
3684 3, 18 | water soft and fresh; ~That water-fed one was reserved for this
3685 3, 17 | land of darkness. ~Like a water-lily seek life there! ~Yea, like
3686 3, 5 | that the beast resembled a water-pipe; another felt its ear, and
3687 1, 9 | enters his mind. 10~Arab, water-pot, and angels are all ourselves!~"
3688 6, 6 | the green garden and sweet watered meadows.~Not like Canaan,
3689 2, 6 | One day, having received a watermelon, he gave Luqman the best
3690 5, 10 | confine your view to the waterwheel?~Lift up your head and view
3691 3, 17 | terrestrial earth, ~The watery sign (Aquarius) sends moisture
3692 1, 6 | Whosoever is bewildered by wavering will, 1~In his ear hath
3693 1, 10 | hand of the Director is not weaker than theirs;~His hand is
3694 6, 9 | youngest brother, who was the weakest of all, succeeded where
3695 2, 16 | the two worlds.~Let not a weakling like you censure me,~What,
3696 6, 5 | blow, but when he saw the weakly and infirm condition of
3697 1, 3 | resignation to God's will~In weal and woe, all virtues are
3698 1, 9 | to the story of those two wealth-seekers.~How God made Adam superior
3699 1, 12 | displayed in that Not-being,~Wealthy men show their liberality
3700 2, 3 | pliable by the force of his weaving. 4~When Solomon was nurtured
3701 5, 8 | things distorted through the web he has spun himself The
3702 6, 5 | evident fruits of a preceding wedlock.~The ecstasy is past, but
3703 1, 9 | heart a-quaking,~When she weeps, how feelest thou then?~
3704 1, 9 | the earth is the warp and weft of thy body.~Thy earthly
3705 1, 14 | knowledge of men of the body weighs them down.~When 'tis knowledge
3706 3, 13 | darkness. ~We admit that ye are weighted as with stones, ~_And that
3707 4, 6 | assuring him that he was well-beloved of God, because in spite
3708 4, 2 | mountains in company with well-bred dogs. This is an illustration
3709 1, 11 | room for the 'raw' at my well-cooked feast.~Naught but fire of
3710 4, 2 | patience, ~To the patient well-doer preach comfort and pardon, ~
3711 2, 10 | What is the recompense of well-doing, O son? ~It is kindness
3712 2, 6 | wing~Is impotent to fly, O well-intentioned one!~Now either permit me
3713 4 (13)| This alludes to the well-known poem of Faridu-d-Din 'Attar
3714 6, 1 | the number, but pious and well-mannered. The women of the family
3715 3, 12 | the circumstances. ~That well-meaning man goes wrong through his
3716 4, 5 | wrist,~The second on your well-plastered roof,~And the third I will
3717 5, 1 | guest, I am your sincere well-wisher."~So, offerings and presents
3718 6, Prol| Whereby the heart's feet wend their way to the truth.~
3719 4, 7 | straw is useless in the wheat-barn.~'Tis wrong to mix these
3720 5, 10 | throne,~What need has He to wheedle a worm like Moses?"~O babbler,
3721 3, 14 | to find joy in the heart~Whensoever distress and care assail
3722 4, 6 | hell?' ~God makes a hell wheresover He wills; ~He makes the
3723 1, 3 | sleeping who hankers after each whim~And holds parley with each
3724 1, 3 | souls are a prey to divers whims,~Thoughts of loss and gain
3725 2, 7 | Leave thy natural lusts to whine and howl,~Tear thee from
3726 5, 13 | s rebuke to his passion, whish lusted to join in the "lesser
3727 1, 2 | fowler sounds his decoy whistle,~That the birds may be beguiled
3728 1, 7 | tale of the Beloved, every whit!~For through coquetry His
3729 1, 16 | Adam for scorning Iblis.~To whomsoever God's order comes,~He must
3730 5, 9 | eyes were opened to the wickedness of his conduct, and be went
3731 3, 1 | travelers lost their way in a wilderness, and were well nigh famished
3732 4, 5 | fish did nothing but swim wildly about, and was taken and
3733 1, 6 | the domination of wanton wilfulness.~O son, they understand
3734 3, 2 | refusing to recognize me was willful, and your claims to humanity
3735 5, 13 | forgetfulness and drunkenness are willfully incurred. Those who die
3736 1, 1 | all omitted to say, "God willing, 1 we will cure her," their
3737 2, 10 | the faithful worship Him willingly, ~For they seek and aim
3738 3, 2 | gold, ~Whereof the common willow has no cognizance. ~The
3739 6, 9 | is risen!"~Or, "Lo! the willow-bough is putting forth leaves;"~
3740 5, 11 | mount the heavens.~When, to win enduring love of God, you
3741 3, 17 | sends moisture to it; ~The windy sign sends the clouds to
3742 5, 4 | succulent and sweet and costly wines,~And also store of silken
3743 1, 7 | excuse makest Thou for Thy witcheries?~O Thou whose lips are sweeter
3744 6, 9 | glances and all manner of witchery; go and ensnare some rich
3745 5, 10 | divine light~Is this, to withdraw thyself from the house of
3746 1 (5) | His sustaining presence is withdrawn they at once relapse into
3747 1, Prol| faded and the garden is withered,~The song of the nightingale
3748 6, 6 | and battle and all we have witnessed.~Thus, too, in the second
3749 6, 7 | of money. The king, after witnessing the burglary, withdrew from
3750 2, 8 | him?~True, if it lose his wolf-like nature it becomes a friend;~
3751 2, 10 | through his light! ~So long as woman-like you swallow blandishments, ~
3752 6, 5 | fat and flesh, warp and woof.~Your fat kindles no light
3753 5 (6) | vii. p. 45. Mansur Hallaj (woolcarder), the celebrated Sufi who
3754 2, 10 | sorts of pictures are of His workmanship, ~They proceed not from
3755 3, 13 | For a prophet sees what worldlings cannot see."~Mercy inclines
3756 1, 5 | thee against destiny;~To worry with precaution is toil
3757 4, 2 | forefather,~Because the angels worshipped him for my sake,~And 'twas
3758 5, 10 | certainty his reason will be worsted in the fight,~And his imitation
3759 3, 2 | viler than a dog,~If thou wouldest rival the Seven Sleepers'
3760 6, 3 | Now embracing me, and now wounding me!"~Thus the whole of his
3761 6, 2 | and disguised himself by wrapping his head up in leaves and
3762 5, 12 | courtier protected his head by wrappings of felt. Then the neighbors
3763 5, 12 | master. The noble was very wrathful at the presumption of the
3764 6, 9 | sea, and the ship being wrecked, all that were in it perished,
3765 6 (11)| Koran xciv. 1. ~
3766 5 (1) | Koran xcv. 4. ~
3767 5 (2) | Koran xcvi. 9. ~
3768 6 (2) | I commit my case" (Koran xl. 47). ~
3769 5 (8) | Koran xlv. 23. ~
3770 6 (20)| Koran xlvi. 20. ~
3771 3 (1) | Koran xlvii. 32. ~
3772 3 (2) | Koran xxiii. 110: "He will say 'Be ye
3773 5 (6) | Koran xxviii. 38. ~
3774 4 (24)| Koran xxx. 49. ~
3775 5 (9) | Koran xxxii. 30. i.e., Wait thou for
3776 3 (1) | Koran xxxiv. 14. ~
3777 3 (6) | Koran xxxvii. 101. ~
3778 4 (3) | Koran xxi., xxvii., and xxxviii. See Sale's notes. ~
3779 1, 10 | the light, the other on]y the veil.~Strive to obtain
3780 1, 9 | the letters from Alif to Ya.~In this variety of letters
3781 6, 2 | to recite the chapters "Yasin" and "An'am."~Then he began
3782 1, 8 | to the burial-ground of ~Yathrub, and there played his harp
3783 2, 10 | The celebrated Sufi, Abu Yazid or Bayazid of Bastam, in
3784 1, 5 | Was made a muzzle for that yearling calf (Adam), 6~Lest he should
3785 1, Prol| express the pangs of my yearning for my home.~He who abides
3786 4 (4) | commentator translates ruh by Haqq Yoluna, "for the sake of truth," "
3787 3, 17 | wide plain;~Wherever her Yusuf-like face shines as a moon,~Though
3788 1, 9 | Though he be Rustum, son of Zal, and braver than Hamza,~
3789 5, 6 | anecdote of a pious man of Zarwan, who made a point of giving
3790 6, Prol| heart, Husamu-'d-Din,~My zeal burnt within me to write
3791 1 (1) | Compare the story of Zopyrus, Herodotus, iii. 155. ~
3792 2, 3 | desert of inquiry.~When Zu-1-Ntin became distraught with care
3793 3 (3) | the tenth day of the month Zul Hijja. It is also called "
3794 1, 12 | STORY XII. Joseph a‚Žd the Mirror.~An old friend
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