Who spends it in adoring thee.
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One of the devotees of Mount Lebanon, whose piety was famed in the Arab country and his miracles well known, entered the cathedral mosque of Damascus and was performing his purificatory ablution on the edge
Thou showest thy countenance and then hidest itEnhancing thy value and augmenting our desire.I behold whom I love without an intervention.Then a trance befalls me; I lose the road;It kindles fire, then quenches it with a sprinkling shower.Wherefore thou seest me burning and drowning.
A solitary dervish was sitting in a corner of the desert when a padshah happened to pass by but, ease having made him independent, he took no notice. The sultan, in conformity with his royal dignity, became angry and said: ‘This tribe of rag-wearers resembles beasts.’’ The vezier said: ‘The padshah of the surface of the earth has passed near thee. Why hast thou not paid homage and shown good manners?’ He replied: ‘Tell the king to look for homage from a man who expects benefits from him and also that kings exist for protecting subjects and subjects not for obeying kings.’
Although wealth is in the glory of his reign.The sheep is not for the shepherdBut the shepherd for the service of it.Today thou beholdest one man prosperousAnd another whose heart is wounded by struggling.Wait a few days till the earth consumesThe brain in the head of the visionary.Distinction between king and slave has ceasedWhen the…
Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life – Maxim 58
Who interrupts the conversation of others that they may know his excellence, they will become acquainted only with the degree of his folly.An intelligent man will not give a replyUnless he be asked a question.Because though his words may be based on truth,His claim to veracity may be deemed impossible.
The son of a faqih said to his father: ‘These heart-ravishing words of moralists make no impression upon me because I do not see that their actions are in conformity with their speeches.’
But themselves accumulate silver and corn.A scholar who only preaches and nothing moreWill not impress anyone when he speaks.He is a scholar who commits no evil,Not he who speaks to men but acts not himself.Will you enjoin virtue to mankind and forget your own souls?A scholar who follows his lusts and panders to his bodyIs…
One of the kings of Khorasan had a vision in a dream of Sultan
to have been dissolved and turned to dust, except his eyes, which wererevolving in their orbits and looking about. All the sages were unableto give an interpretation, except a dervish who made his salutationand said: ‘He is still looking amazed how his kingdom belongs toothers.’Many famous men have been buried under groundOf whose existence on…
I have seen a fat fool, dressed in a costly robe, with a turban of Egyptian linen on his head, riding on an Arab horse. Someone said: ‘Sa’di, what thinkest thou of this famous brocade upon this ignorant animal?’ I replied: ‘It is like ugly characters scrawled with gold-water.’
A calf, a body which is bleating.This animal cannot be said to resemble a manExcept in his cloak, turban and outward adornment.Examine all his property and belongings of his estateThou wilt find nothing lawful to take except his blood.If a noble man becomes impoverished imagine notThat his high worth will also decrease.But if into a…