The being endowed with every excellence, Muhammed,
This was so heavy that it moved not from its place;
The other was so light that it flew up to heaven.”
A DISTICH.
“Sarmed, who is a nightingale, has no desire of gold;
(But) his friend is the rose, and the rose has need of a handful of gold.”
ANOTHER DISTICH.
“In the Kâbah and in the idol temple is his stone the symbol of male energy, and his is the symbol of female productiveness;[485]
In one place it is the black stone of the temple of Mecca; in another place an idol of the Hindus.”
In the eulogy of Shaikh Mohammed Khan, who was the chief minister of the illustrious Dara, Sultan Abed Ullah Kat´eb, we find the following quatrain: