How the hare answered the beasts.

“O friends,” said he, “grant me a respite, that by my cunning ye may escape from calamity,

That by my cunning your lives may be saved and this (safety) remain as a heritage to your children.”

Every prophet amidst the peoples used to call them after this manner to a place of deliverance,

For he had seen from Heaven the way of escape, (though) in (their) sight he was contracted (despicable) like the pupil of the eye.

Men regarded him as small like the pupil: none attained to (understanding of) the (real) greatness (worth) of the pupil.