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He Who Trusts in His Submission Suffers a Manifest Hurt

HE WHO TRUSTS IN HIS SUBMISSION SUFFERS A MANIFEST HURT. An old fox said to another, “O master of wisdom and counsel and knowledge, make haste, take two hundred dirams, and convey our letter to these dogs.” He said, “The pay is better than a headache, but it is a heavy and perilous task; when my life has been spent in this venture, what use will your dirams be then?”

A feeling of security against Thy decree, O God, is, rightly understood, the essence of error; it made both `Azâzîl and Bal`âm infamous.