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یہ صفحہ صرف وزنِ فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلن (رمل مسدس محذوف یا وزن مثنوی) میں آنے والی نظمیں دکھاتا ہے۔
How the people went forth to that tree.
How David, on whom be peace, ordered that retaliation should be taken on the murderer after his conviction.
Explaining that Man’s fleshly soul is in the position of the murderer who had become a claimant on account of the cow, and that the slayer of the cow is the intellect, and that David is God or the Shaykh who is God’s vicar, by means, of whose strength and support it is possible to kill the wicked (murderer) and be enriched with (spiritual) daily bread that is not earned by labour and for which, there is no reckoning.
How Jesus, on whom be peace, fled to the top of a mountain (to escape) from the fools.
The story of the people of Sabá and their folly, and how the admonition of the prophets produces no effect upon the foolish.
Explaining (what is signified by) the far-sighted blind man, the deaf man who is sharp of hearing, and the naked man with the long skirts.
Description of the luxuriance of the city of the Sabaeans and their ingratitude.
How the prophets came from God to admonish the people of Sabá.
How the people (of Sabá) demanded miracles from the prophets.
How the people suspected the prophets.
Story of the hares who sent a hare as ambassador to the elephant, bidding him say, ‘I come to thee as the ambassador of the Moon in heaven to bid thee beware of (drinking from) this water-spring,’ as is told in full in the Book of Kalíla (and Dimna).
How the prophets answered their sneers and uttered parables unto them.
[Explaining that it is not seemly for every one to adduce parables, especially concerning Divine actions.]
Story of the thief who was asked, “What are you doing at the bottom of this wall at midnight?” and replied, “I am beating a drum.”
The answer to the parable which the unbelievers related concerning the hare's being sent as ambassador with a message to the elephant from the Moon in heaven.
The meaning of prudence, and a parable of the prudent man.
The banefulness of the action of the bird that abandons prudence from (motives of) greed and vain desire.
Story of the vow made by the dogs every winter that when next summer comes they will build a house for the winter.
How the unbelievers stopped the prophets, on whom be peace, from giving admonition and brought forward Necessitarian arguments.
The answer of the prophets, on whom be peace, to the Necessitarians.
How the infidels repeated the Necessitarian arguments.
How the prophets, on whom be peace, answered them again.
How the people (of Sabá) repeated their resistance to the (prophets') hope (of converting them and set themselves) against the prophets, on whom be peace.
How the prophets, on whom be peace, answered them once more.
The wisdom of (God's) having created Hell in the world hereafter and the prison of (tribulation in) the present world to the end that they may be places of worship for the arrogant (evil-doers): “Come ye willingly or unwillingly.”
Explaining how God most High has made the bodily form of kings a means of subduing the insolent (sinners) who are not subject to God, just as Moses, on whom be peace, built the Báb-i Saghír in the wall of Jerusalem in order that the insolent (and wicked) men among the Israelites might bow low when they entered in, (according to the text), “Enter the gate, prostrating yourselves, and say ‘hittatun.’”
Story of the Súfí's being enamoured of the empty food-wallet.
How Jacob, on whom be peace, was privileged to taste the cup of God from the face of Joseph, and inhale the scent of God from the scent of Joseph; and the exclusion of his (Joseph's) brethren and others from both these (privileges).
Story of the Amír and his slave who was very fond of the ritual prayer and had a great joy in the ritual prayer and in communing with God.
How the prophets lost hope of being accepted and approved by the unbelievers, as God hath said: “Until, when the (Divine) Messengers despaired…”
Explaining how the faith of the conventional (worldly) man consists in fear and hope.
Setting forth how the Prophet, on whom be peace, said, “Verily, God most High hath friends who are concealed.”
The story of Anas, may God be pleased with him: how he cast a napkin into a fiery oven, and it was not burnt.
Story of the Prophet's, on whom be peace, coming to the aid of a caravan of Arabs who had been brought to sore straits by thirst and lack of water and had set their minds on death: (both) the camels and the people (of the caravan) had let their tongues drop out (of their mouths from exhaustion).
How he (the Prophet) miraculously filled the slave's water-skin with water from the Unseen World and made the face of that negro slave white by permission of God most High.
How the master saw his slave white and did not recognise him and said, “Thou hast killed my slave: the murder hath found thee out, and God hath thrown thee into my hands.”
Explaining that whatsoever God most High bestowed and created— the heavens and the earths and the substances and the accidents— He created all (this) at the demand of need, and that one must make one's self in need of a thing, so that He may bestow it; for “… Or He who answers the sorely distressed when he calls unto Him?” Sore distress is the evidence of worthiness (to receive the Divine bounty).
How the unbelieving woman came to Mustafá (Mohammed), on whom be peace, with a sucking babe, and how it spoke, like Jesus, of the miracles of the Prophet, God bless and save him!
How an eagle seized the boot of the Prophet, on whom be peace, and carried it into the air and turned it upside down, and how a black serpent dropped down from the boot.
The right way of taking a lesson from this story and knowing with certainty that “verily, together with hardship there is ease.”
How a certain man demanded of Moses (that he should teach him) the language of the beasts and birds.
How Revelation came from God most High to Moses that he should teach him the thing demanded by him, or part of it.
How that seeker was content to be taught the language of domestic fowls and dogs, and how Moses, on whom be peace; complied with his request.
The cock's answer to the dog.
[How the cock became abashed before the dog on account of being false in those three promises.]
How the cock foretold the death of the Khwája.
How that person ran to Moses for protection when he heard from the cock the announcement of his death.
How Moses prayed for that person, that he might depart from the world (die) in the Faith.
How God most High answered favourably the prayer of Moses, on whom be peace.
