There is marrow in every bone, a man in every coat.
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Moses, to whom be salutation, beheld a dervish who had on account of his nudity concealed himself in the sand exclaiming: ‘O Moses, utter a supplication to God the most high to give me an allowance because I am, on account of my distress, on the point of starvation.’ Moses accordingly prayed and departed but returning a few days afterwards he saw that the dervish was a prisoner and surrounded by a crowd of people. On asking for the reason he was informed that the dervish had drunk wine, quarrelled, slain a man and was to be executed in retaliation.
He would rob the world of every sparrow-egg.It may happen that when a weak man obtains powerHe arises and twists the hands of the weak.And if Allah were to bestow abundance upon his servants, they would certainly rebel upon earth.What has made thee wade into danger, O fool,Till thou hast perished. Would that the ant…
The beautiful wife of a man died but her mother, a decrepit old hag, remained in the house on account of the dowry. The man saw no means of escaping from contact with her until a company of friends paid him a visit of condolence and one of them asked him how he bore the loss of his beloved. He replied: ‘It is not as painful not to see my wife as to see the mother of my wife.’
The treasure has been taken and the serpent left.It is better that one’s eye be fixed on a spear-headThan that it should behold the face of an enemy.It is incumbent to sever connection with a thousand friendsRather than to behold a single foe.
A design without strength to execute it is fraud and deception and application of strength without a design is ignorance and lunacy.
For realm and wealth with an ignorant man are weapons against himself.
It is incumbent upon a padshah to give way to anger towards his slaves only so far as to retain the confidence of his friends. The fire of anger first burns him who has given cause for it and afterwards the flame may or may not reach the foe.
To inflate their heads with pride, violence and wind.Thou who displayest so much heat and obstinacyMust be, I think, not of earth but of fire.I visited a hermit in the country of BilqanAnd requested him to purge me of ignorance by instruction.He replied: ‘Be patient like earth, O lawyer,Or else, bury under the earth all…
An Arab suffering in the desert from extreme thirst recited:
I could one day enjoy my wishThat a river’s waves might strike my kneeAnd I might fill my water-bag.’In the same manner another traveller lost himself in an extensive region having neither any strength nor food left but he possessed some money and roamed about and the road leading him nowhere he perished from exhaustion….
A man without virility is a woman and an avaricious devote is a highway robber.
To be approved of men, whilst the book of thy acts is black.The hand is to be restrained from the world,No matter whether the sleeve be short or long.