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He said: Any person who is suspicious will not listen to the truth, even with a hundred signs. Any inward self that has become given to imagining, when you bring proof, its imagining only increases. When speech enters it, it turns into a sickness or pretext; the warrior's sword becomes a tool for the thief. Therefore the answer to him is silence and stillness; speaking with a fool is madness. Why do you complain of me before God, O simple one? Complain of the evil of that vile lower self. You eat halva and it becomes a boil in you; fever seizes you and your temperament is disordered. You curse Iblis without cause, because you do not see that deception arising from yourself. It is not from Iblis; it is from you, O misguided one, since like a fox you go toward the sheep's fat-tail. When you see fat-tails in the grass, it is a trap; why do you not know this? You do not know because desire for the fat-tail has driven you far from knowledge; craving for the fat-tail has blinded your eye and intellect. Your love of things makes you blind and deaf; your dark lower self has committed the offense, so do not dispute. Do not lay your sin on me; do not look crookedly. I am disgusted with evil and with greed and rancor. I did evil, and I am still repentant; I am waiting until Dey, winter, becomes Tammuz, summer. I have become accused among the people; every man and woman lays their own deed on me. The poor wolf, though hungry, is suspected of being in luxury and fullness. When from weakness it cannot walk, people say: it has indigestion from a heavy meal.