His camel felt the blow they dared not aim at him.
No hurt could fall on Sālih’s soul,—that priceless gem,—
Such holy emanation was not sport for them.
The soul unto the flesh is joined, by God’s decree,
That it may be afflicted,—trials made to see.275
Who hurts a body hurts also its soul, no doubt;
The life-blood in that vase from being’s fount was brought.
God enters in relation with material form,
That He may be asylum to each earthborn worm.
No man can inlet find to injure soul of saint;