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The Gulistân eternal punishment in the next. Allah the Most High has said: And we will cause them to taste the nearer punishment [of this world] besides the more grievous punishment [of the next].

Admonition is the address of superiors, and then fetters; if they give advice and thou listenest not, they put thee in fetters.

men are admonished by the adventures and similes of those who have proclaimed them, before those who follow them can use the event as a proverb, like thieves who shorten their hands, lest their hands be cut off.

The bird does not go to the grain displayed when it beholds another fowl in the trap; take advice by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take advice from thee.

can he hear whose organ of audition has been created dull, and how can he avoid progressing upon whom the noose of happiness has been flung?

To whom shall I complain of Thee, there is no other judge and there is no other hand superior to Thine. Whom Thou guidest no one can lead astray; whom Thou castest off no one can guide.