Has not been ennobled by the silkworm.
It was some days in company with a venerable man
Wherefore it became respected like himself.
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A dervish wanted something and a man told him that a certain individual possessed untold wealth who, if he were made aware of his want, would not consider it proper to fail in supplying it forthwith. The dervish answering that he had no acquaintance with him, the man proposed to show him the house and when the dervish entered he caught sight of a person with hanging lips and sitting morosely. He returned immediately and being asked what he had done replied: ‘I excused him from making me a present when I saw his face.’
Because his ill-humour will crush thy hopes.If thou confidest thy heart’s grief, tell it to oneWhose face will comfort thee like ready cash.
I heard that a dervish, sitting in a cave, had closed the doors upon the face of the world, so that no regard for kings and rich persons remained in the eyes of his desire.
Will till he dies remain a needy fellow.Abandon greediness and be a kingBecause a neck without desire is high.One of the kings of that region sent him the information that, trusting in the good manners of the respected dervish, he hoped he would partake of bread and salt with him. The sheikh agreed because it…
Hormuzd, being asked what fault the veziers of his father had
I saw that boundless awe of me had taken root in their hearts but thatthey had no full confidence in my promises, wherefore I apprehendedthat they, fearing calamities would befall them, might attempt my lifeand I acted according to the maxim of sages who have said:‘Dread him who dreads thee, O sage,Although thou couldst cope…
Do not pity the weakness of a foe because when he gains strength he will not spare thee.
There is marrow in every bone, a man in every coat.
A schoolboy was so perfectly beautiful and sweet-voiced that the teacher, in accordance with human nature, conceived such an affection towards him that’ he often recited the following verses:
That remembrance of myself occurs to my mind.From thy sight I am unable to withdraw my eyesAlthough when I am opposite I may see that an arrow comes.Once the boy said to him: ‘As thou strivest to direct my studies, direct also my behaviour. If thou perceivest anything reprovable in my conduct, although it may…
A caravan having been plundered in the Yunan country and deprived of boundless wealth, the merchants wept and lamented, beseeching God and the prophet to intercede for them with the robbers, but ineffectually.
What cares he for the weeping of the caravan?Loqman the philosopher being among the people of the caravan, one of them asked him to speak a few words of wisdom and advice to the robbers so that they might perhaps return some of the property they had plundered because the loss of so much wealth…