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Look what scheme that dog-like Jew devised: he erected an idol beside the fire, saying that whoever prostrates to this idol is saved, and whoever does not will sit in the heart of the fire. Since he did not give this idol, his self, its deserved punishment, another idol was born from the idol of his self. The mother of idols is the idol of your self, for that outer idol is a snake and this inner idol is a dragon. The self is iron and stone, and the idol is a spark; that spark is put to rest by water. But when are stone and iron stilled by water? How can a human being be safe with those two? The idol is black water hidden in a jar; know the self as the spring of that black water. That carved idol is like a black flood; the idol-making self is a spring along the watercourse. A single piece of stone may break a hundred jars, while the spring water gushes out without delay. Idol-breaking is easy, very easy; to regard the self as easy is ignorance, sheer ignorance. If you seek the form of the self, O son, read the tale of Hell with seven gates. In every breath there is a ruse, and in every ruse of that kind a hundred Pharaohs and their Pharaoh-like followers are drowned. Flee to the God of Moses and to Moses; do not pour away the water of faith through Pharaonic conduct. Take hold of Ahad, the One, and Ahmad; O brother, free yourself from the Abu Jahl of the body.