| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: thou art of those who lie. Go with this my letter and throw it
before them, then turn back away from them, and see what they return.'
Said she, 'O ye chiefs! verily, a noble letter has been thrown
before me. It is from Solomon, and, verily, it is, "In the name of the
merciful and compassionate God. Do not rise up against me, but come to
me resigned!"' She said, ye chiefs! pronounce sentence for me in my
affair. I never decide an affair until ye testify for me.'
They said, 'We are endowed with strength, and endowed with keen
violence; but the bidding is thine, see then what it is that thou wilt
bid.'
She said, 'Verily, kings when they enter a city despoil it, and make
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: servants, or He doles it out; had not God been gracious to us, the
earth would have cleft open with us! Ah, ah! the unbelievers shall not
prosper!
That is the future abode; we make it for those who do not wish to be
haughty in the earth, nor to do evil, and the end is for the pious.
He who brings a good deed shall have better than it; and he who
brings an evil deed-those who do evil deeds shall only be rewarded for
that which they have done. Verily, He who hath ordained the Koran
for thee will restore thee to thy returning place. Say, 'My Lord knows
best who brings guidance, and who is in obvious error; nor couldst
thou hope that the Book would be thrown to thee, save as a mercy
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm: but I must have my beast back again.' Then they went back to the
meadow together, but someone had stolen the calf, and it was gone. The
cow-herd said: 'It must have run away.' The peasant, however, said:
'Don't tell me that,' and led the cow-herd before the mayor, who for
his carelessness condemned him to give the peasant a cow for the calf
which had run away.
And now the little peasant and his wife had the cow for which they had
so long wished, and they were heartily glad, but they had no food for
it, and could give it nothing to eat, so it soon had to be killed.
They salted the flesh, and the peasant went into the town and wanted
to sell the skin there, so that he might buy a new calf with the
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