The kult of Mithras went to Rome and met Dionysus who got mixed up and so danced only on feast days. Memory too strong impedes the present from song; to forget: a blessing. Onward to the straight path – but not of piety, rather standing straight, shoulder to shoulder at fixed times He decrees, not as the kristian nafs decrees; and so the qiyaam here and the qiyaam there; and it may be He urgently wishes to see s.o. so He has him die in ectasy before his time. ‘Now where the intoxication of His Messenger?’, he enquired quite sternly. ‘O look to the pivot of Meknes’ he answered, ‘for generosity lies in the giving not the form.’