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Having bowed the head, I rub my face in the dust before that 

 Maker by whom we all were made, and by whom in an instant were 

 revealed all those things of which the secret had been penetrated by 

 none. 



The breath that comes and goes, if the thought did not turn on him, 

 would be a noose for our necks. How shall this puppet, that holds in 

 remembrance the Being that disposes it, fall into any difficulty ? And 

 how shall gall and bitterness be met with ? Taste the sweetness of 

 that fruit as former generations have tasted of excellence from their 

 elders. To see, He gave the eye ; for hearing, the ear ; the nose also 

 he made prominent amongst all the features ; and to our forms, granted 

 a soul. To a vessel of clay, how is it possible to declare the skill of 

 its Maker ? The truth is, how can the created praise his Creator, and 



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