XV. Zeyd’s Inspiration.
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Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana and Redhouse, James W. (James William), Sir
Your riches are your seed. Cast not such seed to waste.
Place not a sword in robber’s hand with senseless haste.
Distinction make ’twixt friend and foe to truth divine;
Seek out God’s saints, and leave them not to starve, to pine.
You’ve spent your stuff upon your cherished kindred sole,
And fancied stupidly you’d followed God’s law whole.”223