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and meditate in allence on the wonders of of thy lips speak praise and adoration, - ghow thy love to his law. 23. Allah t just and righteous, and will judge the earth with equity and truth. 24. Htath he established bis lawe in goodness snd mercy. and shall he not punish the transgressors thereof ? 25. O think not, bold men. because thy punishment is de layed, that the arm of Allah ia weakened; neither flatter thyself with hopes that he winketh at thy doings. 26. His eye plerceth the secrets of every heart. and he re- membereth them forever: he respecteth not the persons OF the stations of men. 97, The high and the Jow, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant, when the soul hath shaken off the cumbrous shackles of this mortal life, shall equally ceceive, from the ner- tence of just and everlasting retribution. according to their works. 28. Then shall the wicked tremble and be afraid: but the heart of the righteous shall rejoice in his judgments. 29. O fear Allah. therefore, all the days of thy life. and walk in the patha which he hath opened before thee. Let prod ence admonish thee, let temperance restrain, let justice guide thy hand, benevolence warm thy hean, and gratitude to Heaven inspire thee with devotion. These shall give thee happiness in thy present atate, and bring thee to the mansions of eternal fel city in the paradise of Allah. : 40. This ia the (ruc economy of Human Life CHAPTER XXXVI. HOLY INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE PROPHET. KNOW THYSELF. 1 Weak and agoorant as thou art, O man. humble as thou oughlest tu be, OF child ef the dust, wouldest thou raise thy thoughts to infinite wisdom” Wouldest thou see ominpotence displayed before they? Contemplate thine frame. 9 Fearfully and wonderfully art thou made, praise there fore thy Creator with awe, and rejoice before him with rever- ence wemameeng’” Wherefore of all creatures art thou only erect, Lut that thou shouldest behold hia works? Wherefore art thou to behold, but that thou mayest admire them? Wherefore to ad- mire their and thy Creator? 4) Wherefore ix consciousness reposed on thee alone, and whence in it derived to thee? meta ee ae ll a a a ee ao everfiow with gratitude and acknowledgement fet the language . Yi. : e backbone It as straight the ass the use'of food) ¥ or standeth the cro as thine? atin’ ~~ 9 sAllah formed thee as he formed t wert thou created j sapere and * over all, and if bis breath did he commur 10.- Know If and the pride of bis unlting divinity and matter; bebold « part of Al In thee; remember thine own dignity, sor dary 4 orto meapnem. oc -histoc. > ae Lak we ni ay @ S's at a . to *, Batre eo 11. Who planted terror In the tall ' clothed the neck of the horve with thunder? #7. instructed thee to crush the one under thy fe other to thy purpuee. a ge 9 2S CHAPTER XXXVIL TS EROH HOLY INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE PROPHET, THE BREATH OF HEAVEN: j.: 1. Vaunt not thy body: thy brain, because therein thy sou of the houre more honorable than : 2 The ground must be prepared before corn bt, the potter must bulld his furnace before he can male, eelain. co temgts 3. A» the breath of heaven sayeth unte the. deep, “This way shall thy billows, roll, and a0 other and no higher shall they raise their fury” so bet t man, actuate and direct thy flesh: oo jet it represg 5. Thy body kk as the globe of the earth}: pillarw that sustain it on its basis. - 6. Asthe ocean giveth rive to eprin again into Ita bosom through the rivere; so TU thy outwards, aud s0 ruheth it into {is place ag. 7. Do not both retain their course fa same Allah ordained them. LN shersit oe 8. Ie not thy nos the chan , tay path to delicacies. or aie 2a for thee nvr 9. Are not thine eyes lhe pentials that ‘wateh how often are they unalle to distin:cwish f