and she said, ’Give me she cried, ’Give me meat to eat for the love of God, for the love of Allah, to to whom belong might whom belong Honour and and majesty!’ ‘Not so, Glory!’ But I answered by Allah,’ answered I, ’Not so, by Allah, except ‘except thou yield thyself thou yield thyself to me.’ to me.’  Quoth she, Quoth she, ’Better is ’Better is death to me death to me than the wrath than the wrath of God and wreak of Allah the the Most High.’  And Most Highest; and she she left the food rose and left the food untouched untouched[FN#461] and went away [FN#461] and went away repeating the following repeating these couplets:  verses: 

O, Thou, the only God, whose O, Thou, the One, whose grace
  grace embraceth all that be, doth all the world embrace;
  Thine ears have heard my Thine ears have heard, Thine
  moan, Thine eyes have seen eyes have seen my case!
  my misery;

Indeed, privation and distress Privation and distress have dealt
  are heavy on my head; I me heavy blows; the woes
  cannot tell of all the woes that weary me no utterance
  that do beleaguer me. can trace.

I’m like a man athirst, that I am like one athirst who eyes
  looks upon a running stream, the landscape’s eye, yet may
  yet may not drink a single not drink a draught of
  draught of all that he doth streams that rail and race.
  see.

My flesh would have me buy its My flesh would tempt me by the
  will, alack, its pleasures sight of savoury food whose
  flee!  The sin that pays their joys shall pass away and
  price abides to all eternity. pangs maintain their place.

[The girl, “worn out with want,” came a third time, and met with the same answer.  But then remorse seized upon the blacksmith and he bade her, “eat, and fear not.”]

“When she heard this “Then she raised her eyes she raised her eyes to to heaven and said, heaven and said,

“’O my God, if this             “’O my God, if this man
man be sincere, I pray          say sooth, I pray thee
Thee forbid fire to do          forbid fire to harm him
him hurt in this world          in this world and the
and the next, for Thou art      next, for Thou over all
He that answereth prayer        things art Omnipotent and
and art powerful to do          Prevalent in answering the
whatsoever Thou wilt!’          prayer of the penitent!’

“Then I left her and            Then I left her and went
went to put out the fire        to put out the fire in
in the brasier.   Now the        the brazier.   Now the
time was the winter-cold,       season was winter and the
and a hot coal fell on          weather cold, and a live
my body; but by the             coal fell on my body, but
ordinance of God (to            by the decree of Allah (to