The price of rubies and of stones would be the same.
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Gold is obtained from a mine by digging it, but from a miser by digging the soul.
They say hope of spending is better than spending.One day thou seest the wish of the foe fulfilledThe gold remaining and the vile man dead.
An Arab king was sick in his state of decrepitude so that all
news that a certain fort had been conquered by the good luck of theking, that the enemies had been captured and that the whole populationof the district had been reduced to obedience. The king heaved adeep sigh and replied: ‘This message is not for me but for my enemies,namely the heirs of the kingdom.’I spent…
A king with some of his courtiers had during a hunting party and in the winter season strayed far from inhabited places but when the night set in he perceived the house of a dehqan and said: ‘We shall spend the night there to avoid the injury of the cold.’ One of the veziers, however, objected alleging that it was unworthy of the high dignity of a padshah to take refuge in the house of a dehqan and that it would be best to pitch tents and to light fires on the spot. The dehqan who had become aware of what was taking place prepared some food he had ready in his house, offered it, kissed the ground of service and said: ‘The high dignity of the sultan would not have been so much lowered, but the courtiers did not wish the dignity of the dehqan to become high.’ The king who was pleased with these words moved for the night into the man’s house and bestowed a dress of honour upon him the next morning. When he accompanied the king a few paces at the departure he was heard to say:
By accepting the hospitality of a dehqan,But the corner of the dehqan’s cap reached the sunWhen a sultan such as thou overshadowed his head.’
I heard a padshah giving orders to kill a prisoner. The helpless
the tongue he had, and to use foul expressions according to thesaying:Who washes his hands of lifeSays whatever he has in his heart.When a man is in despair his tongue becomes long and he is like avanquished cat assailing a dog.In time of need, when flight is no more possible,The hand grasps the point of…
One of the Arab kings ordered his officials to double the allowance of a certain attendant because he was always at the palace expecting orders while the other servants were engaged in amusements and sports, neglecting their duties. A pious man who heard this remarked that high degrees at the court of heaven are similarly bestowed upon servants:
He will on the third certainly look benevolently on him.Sincere worshippers entertain the hopeThat they will not be disappointed at the threshold of God.Superiority consists in attending to commands.The neglect of commands leads to exclusion.Who possesses the criterion of righteousnessPlaces the head upon the threshold.