223. L. This introduction of the four elements in one quatrain is called Mutazadd. Gladwin, p. 60.
Small gains to learning on this earth accrue,
They pluck life's fruitage, learning who eschew;
Take pattern by the fools who learning shun,
And then perchance shall fortune smile on you.
224. C. L. A. I. Bu contracted from buzad
When the fair soul this mansion doth vacate,
Each element assumes its primal state,
And all the silken furniture of life
Is then dismantled by the blows of fate.
225. C. L. A. I. Abresham tab', like Hatim tab'.
These people string their beads of learned lumber,
And tell of Allah stories without number;
Yet never solve the riddle of the skies,
But wag the chin, and get them back to slumber.