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The Unity of God. 
 
 
 
VII 
 
THE DUSTSTORM 
 
 
I was excessively drunk yesterday in the house 
of Husein1 ;  thou didst appear to me (for there is 
no might nor any potency save in the Almighty !2) 
as having two podices like suns on the horizon in a 
duststorm ;  and four buttocks, shaking in a con-
fused manner. 
Therefore I did take council with Husein-i-Abdal1 
as to what it were fitting to do ;  and he bade me 
look upon my member, whether it were one or 
two.  Now then my eyes gave the lie to my 
hand ;  but rushing upon thee like a bull, I did pe-
netrate to the core of thy being ;  and great joy 
overcoming me I fell down, assured that there was 
but one. 
Thus it is with the unbeliever3 and his three 
gods ;  but whoso knoweth Allah knoweth Him to 
be one. 
For all that, Habib, it is a great pity that thou art 
not double as to thy podex ;  I could more easily 
understand and excuse thy filthy dealings with the 
one-eyed Nubian yesterday.  Of a surety thou 
stinkest yet of his sweat ;  go wash thyself before 
thou comest wooing to El Qahar. 
Nay, darling !  come now, and as thou art ;  I love 
thee, wert thou the bedfellow of every hog in Iran. 
 
 
1.  Husein — possibly 
represents 
the 
mystic 
Teacher or Guru of the poet.  The Nubian is per-
haps Satan or the “ Evil Genius.”  Abdal means 
Saints or Hermits, but also a class of beings spo-