Muntakhab al-tawarikh 22.3.6
Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 22.3.6
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22.3.6
How can my burden be in the least degree lightened apart from thy consent? How can I gird my loins like the ant through avarice, in the service of this one or that?
Although like the ant I have been crushed by the (iron) hand of desire
Yet I never contemplated the slightest idea of profit or loss apart from thee.
Since this is from thee I am happy, although my heart is distraught and pained; my heart is like the eye of the ant and my condition is like the hair of the heart-ravishing one.
If the ant brought the foot of a locust into the presence of Solomon, Shihab would have come headlong to thy door with the feet of his soul about his head as hair.