and take for yourself a light by which you may shine on the Day when people divide the lights according to their ranks.

Another version:
“If my affliction is what Your mercy requires, then I am satisfied with the wretchedness of my condition, and let wasting sickness be permitted to my body.
I have offered You my very soul, seeking no price for it except Your good pleasure—and my poverty itself is payment enough. (1)

Another:
“I pine at the edges of the day out of yearning, and at night passion calls to me and I respond.” (2)

Another:
“If love is inescapable, then it is sheer weakness to love anyone but the Beautiful One.” (3)

Another:
“Had I been striving for a hastily passing livelihood, a fraction of what I already endure would have sufficed me;
but I am striving for an everlasting kingdom—alas for me if I do not attain it.” (4)

• O you who belong to the people of insight! Have you come to know the value of your own soul? The whole cosmos was created for your sake.
• O you who were suckled on the milk of beneficence and cradled by the hands of kindness! All things are but a single tree—