Love endures hardships at the hands of the Beloved.
Through love bitter things seem sweet,
Through love bits of copper are made
gold.
Through love dregs taste like pure wine,
Through love pains are as healing balms.
Through love thorns become roses,
And through love vinegar becomes sweet
wine.
Through love the stake becomes a throne,
Through love reverse of fortune seems
good fortune.
Through love a prison seems a rose
bower,
Without love a grate full of ashes seems
a garden.
Through love burning fire is pleasing
light,
Through love the Devil becomes a Houri.
Through love hard stones become soft as
butter,
Without love soft wax becomes hard iron.
Through love grief is as joy,
Through love Ghouls turn into angels.
Through love stings are as honey,
Through love lions are harmless as mice.
Through love sickness is health,
Through love wrath is as mercy.
Through love the dead rise to life,
Through love the king becomes a slave.
Even when an evil befalls you, have due
regard;
Regard well him who does you this ill turn.
The sight which regards the ebb and flow
of good and ill
Opens a passage for you from misfortune
to happiness.
Thence you see the one state moves you
into the other,
One opposite state generating its opposite in exchange.
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