Passage 26

In English

While true poets thus describe the Lord with devotion and purity in their hearts, there are others nowadays who give perverted meanings for the same description of the Lord. They also call themselves poets. According to such people, means one who carries clean white clothes (washed and dried clothes) and stands for omnipresent or that which can be seen everywhere and is taken to mean one with four legs and is interpreted as expressionless and resigned countenance. They have concluded that that which has an unchanging and expressionless face, that which moves about everywhere aimlessly, that which has four legs, and that which carries white clean clothes is the donkey. Thus, they equate Lord with a donkey. People who give such twisted meanings to sacred poetic expressions are the real donkeys.