Book I Verses 169 to 181

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The Story: How that saint demanded of the king to be alone with the handmaiden for the purpose of discovering her malady. Verses: (144-181)
This Story contains two episodes:

A thorn in the heart, (Verses 144-168)
The grave of the secret, (Verses 169-181)

The Second Episode: The grave of the secret, Verses 169-181
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: Parviz Meshkatian

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A thorn in the heart

169- When the physician found out this secret from the sick girl, he discerned the source of that grief and woe.
170- He said to the handmaiden: “Which is his quarter in passing through the town?” “Bridgehead”, “Ghátafar street” she replied.
171- He said: “I know what your illness is and I will at once display the arts of magic in delivering you.
172- Be glad and care-free and have no fear, for I will cure your depression and I will do to you that which rain does to the meadow.
173- I will be anxious for you, be not anxious; I am kinder to you than a hundred fathers.
174- Beware! tell not this secret to anyone, not though the king should make much inquiry from you.
175- When your heart becomes the grave of your secret, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly.”
176- The Prophet said that anyone who hides his inmost thought will soon attain to the object of his desire.
177- When seeds are hidden in the earth, their inward secret becomes the verdure of the garden.
178- If gold and silver were not hidden, how would they get nourishment grow and ripen in the mine?
179- The promises and soothing words of the physician made the sick girl safe, free from fear.
180- There are true promises that make tranquility in mind, there are false promises that make anxiety, fraught with disquietude.
181- The promise of a trustworthy and noble individual is like a permanent treasure and the current sterling coin; the promise of the unworthy becomes anguish of soul.

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