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Passages similar to: The Conference of the Birds — The Birds Assemble
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The Conference of the Birds
The Birds Assemble (11)
Salutations, O Pigeon! Intone your notes so that I may scatter round you seven plates of pearls. Since the collar of faith encircles your neck it would not become you to be unfaithful. When you enter into the way of understanding, Khizr will bring you the water of life.
The Masnavi
The Building of the "Most Remote Temple" at Jerusalem (92-101)
Sound the note of every bird that draws near; When God sent, thee to the birds, To the predestinarian bird talk predestination, To the bird with...
The Masnavi
The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass (12-21)
What need has He to wheedle a worm like Moses?" O babbler, while thy soul is drunk with mere date wine, For the token of thy having seen that divine...
The Masnavi
The Deadly Mosque (94-103)
The Koran cries out even to the last day, "O people, given up as a prey to ignorance, If ye have imagined me to be only empty fables, Ye yourselves wh...
The Masnavi
The King and his Three Sons (81-90)
He learned birds' language from "what we were taught." But thou art only a bird of the air; understand then That thou hast never seen the true...
The Masnavi
The Fowler and the Bird (1-9)
The bird's cries to God for aid. When he had eaten the grain he was caught in the trap, And began to recite the chapters "Yasin" and "An'am." Then he...
The Masnavi
The Elephant in a Dark Room (22-31)
When you pluck up your foot you escape from the mire, When you obtain salvation at God's hands, O wanderer, You are free from the mire, and go your...
The Masnavi
The Three Fishes (20-28)
His blind soul wanders in every direction, And at last makes a spring, but springs not upwards. A man captured a bird by wiles and snares; The bird sa...