Wherefore do thou recede from thy resolve and thou shalt praise the issue of thy case.'Rejoined the shepherd，'All thou sayest I deny and abhor，and all thou offerest I reject：for thou art cunning and perfidious and there is no honesty in thee nor is there honour. How much of foulness hidest thou under thy beauty，and how many a pious man hast thou seduced from his duty and made his end penitence and perdition？ Avaunt from me，O thou who devotest thyself to corrupt others！'Thereupon，he threw his goat's hair cloak over his head that he might not see her face，and betook himself to calling upon the name of his Lord. And when the angel saw the excellence of his submission to the Divine Will，he went out from him and ascended to heaven. Now hard by the hermit's hill was a village wherein dwelt a pious man，who knew not the other's station，till one night he heard in a dream a Voice saying to him，'In such a place near to thee is a devout man：go thou to him and be at his command！'So when morning dawned he set out to wend thither，and what time the heat was grievous upon him，he came to a tree which grew beside a spring of running water. So he sat down to rest in the shadow of that tree and behold，he saw beasts and birds coming to that fount to drink，but when they caught sight of the devotee sitting there，they took fright and fled from before his face. Then said he，'There is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah！ I rest not here but to the hurt of these beasts and fowls.'So he arose，blaming him self and saying，'Verily my tarrying here this day hath wronged these animals，and what excuse have I towards my Creator and the Creator of these birds and beasts for that I was the cause of their flight from their drink and their daily food and their place of pasturage？ Alas for my shame before my Lord on the day when He shall avenge the hornless sheep on the sheep with horns！''[147] And he wept and began repeating these couplets，'Now an，by Allah，unto man were fully known Why he is made，in careless sleep he ne'er would wone：
First Death，then cometh Wake and dreadful Day of Doom，