Book I Verses 78 to 92

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The Story: "Beseeching the Lord, who is our Helper to help us to observe self-control in all circumstances, and explaining the harmful and pernicious consequences of indiscipline." (Verses: 78-92)
The author and the poet of the stories and poems in Persian: Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī
Translator: Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
The commentary of some parts of the poems in Persian is taken from the scholars
of Persian literature:
Badiozzaman Forouzanfar and Karim Zamani
Translator of commentaries: Zeynab Serahati
Narrator and Producer: Zeynab Serahati
Music by: Mohsen Sharifian

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Beseeching the Lord, who is our Helper, to help us to observe self-control in all circumstances, and explaining the harmful and pernicious consequences of indiscipline.

78- Let us implore God to self-control, one who lacks self-control is deprived of the grace of the Lord.
79- The undisciplined one does not maltreat himself alone, but he sets the whole world on fire.
80- A table of food was coming down from heaven without trouble and without selling and buying,
81- When some of the people of Moses cried and they asked disrespectfully, “Where is garlic and lentils?”
82- Straightway the heavenly bread and dishes of food were cut off; there remained for all of them the toil of sowing, planting, and laboring with mattock and scythe.
83- Again, when Jesus made intercession, God sent food and bounty from heaven on trays,
84- But once more the insolent fellows omitted to show respect and, like beggars, snatched away the viands.
85- Although Jesus entreated them, saying, “This is lasting and will not fail from off the earth.”
86- To show suspicion and greed at the table of Majesty is ingratitude.
87- Because of those impudent wretches who were blinded by greed, that gate of mercy was closed upon them.
88- On account of withholding the poor-tax no rain-clouds arise, and in consequence of fornication the plague spreads in all directions.
89- Whatever befalls for you of gloom and sorrow is the result of irreverence and insolence withal.
90- Anyone behaving with irreverence in the path of the Friend is a brigand who robs men, and he is no man.
91- Through discipline, this Heaven has been filled with light, and through discipline the angels became immaculate and holy.
92- By reason of irreverence the sun was eclipsed, and insolence caused an ‘Azázíl (the fallen angel) to be turned back from the door.

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