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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Koran: craftiness, she sent to them, and prepared for them a banquet, and
gave each of them a knife; and she said, 'Come forth to them!' And
when they saw him they said, 'Great God!' and cut their hands and
said, 'God forbid! This is no mortal, this is nothing but an
honourable angel.' Said she, 'This is he concerning whom ye blamed me.
I did desire him for his person, but he was too continent. But if he
do not what I bid him he shall surely be imprisoned and shall surely
be among the small!' Said he, 'My Lord! Prison is dearer to me than
what they call on me to do; and unless Thou turn from me their
craftiness I shall feel a passion for them and shall be among the
ignorant!' And his Lord answered him and turned from him their
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