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most perfect number, and ten consists of four numbers,
viz. 1 4 - 2 + 3 + 4, and fourteen is 4 + 1 0 .
4. ‘ Nor double wliat is single,’ i.e. she is in the station
of Unity and no one is joined with her, for she is not
homogeneous with anything.
5. ‘ Blentled odours and perfume,’ i.e. Divine sciences and
influence.s.
6. ‘ Beauty reached in thee her utmost limit,’ as Abu
Ilamid (al-GIiazali) said, ‘ A more beautiful world than thi.s
is not possible. Had it Existed and had God kept it to
Himself, He would have .shown avarice which is incompatible
with Hfs liberality and weakness which is contradictory to
His omnipotence.’

XLI
1. God save a bird on a bun tree, a bird that has revealed
to me the true story
2. How the loved ones bound the saddles on their camels
and then gat them away at dawn.
3. I journeyed— and in my heart for their sake was a
blazing fire because of their departure—
4. Striving to outimce them in the darkness of the night,
calling to them, and then following their track.
5. I had no guide in pursuing them except a perfumed
breath of their love.
6. The women rai.sed the curtain, the darkness became light,
and the camels journeyed on because of the moon­
8. And were unable to cro.ss it. I said, ‘ j\Iy tears rolled in
shine.
7. Then I let my tears pour in front of the camels, and the
riders said, ‘ When did this river flow ? ’

streams.’
9. ’Tis as though the thunderclaps at the gleam of the
lightnings and the passing of the clouds at the fall
of rain
10. Were the palpitation of hearts at the flash of teeth and
the flow of teais for travellers who rode away.