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SECOND DISCOURSE. ON POETS<br />
Mahmud expressing himself as greatly indebted to his Minister.<br />
But the Pfjme Minister had enemies who were continually<br />
casting the dust of misrepresentation into the c6p of his rarlk,'<br />
acid Mahmud (t^) consulted with them *as to what he should give<br />
Firdawsi. They replied, " Fifty thousand fiirhams, and even that<br />
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is too much, seeing that he is in belief a Rafidi and a Mu'tazilite.<br />
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Of his Mu'tazilite views 'this verse Is a proof:<br />
,<br />
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Thy gaze the Creator can never descry;<br />
Then wherefore, by gazing, dost weary thine eye ? '<br />
" while to his Rafidi proclivities these' verses of his witness :<br />
man conceives the world as a sea, wherefrom the fierce wind has<br />
stirred up waves.<br />
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Thereon are seventy ships afloat, all with sails set,<br />
And amongst them one l<br />
vessel, fair as a bride, decked with colour like the<br />
t eye of the cock, ,<br />
Wherein are the Prophet and ''AH, with all the Family of the Prophet and<br />
his Vicar.<br />
If thou desirest Paradise in the other World, take thy place by the Prophet<br />
and his Trustee.<br />
If ill accrues to thee thereby, it is my fault : know this-, that this way is, my<br />
way.<br />
In this I was born, and in this I willpass away ; knqw for a surety<br />
am as dust at feet of 'Alt.'"<br />