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The Masnavi
Mahmud and Ayaz (continued) (124-133)
Applies the text, "To you be your creed, to me mine." In the face of negations like these cut short speech, "O Ahmad, say little to an old Fire-worshipper!" "We distribute among them," to some carnal lusts, and to others angelic qualities. If the prince lacked the animal manliness of asses, He renounced lust and anger and concupiscence, Grant that he lacked the virility of asses, Let me be dead, so long as God regards me with favor! I am better off than the living who are rejected of God; The former is the kernel of manliness, the latter only the rind;
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of Self (6)
Someone may here object, "But if man has been created with animal and demonic qualities as well as angelic, how are we to know that the latter...