Is worthy of belief and of approbation.
When thou hast once said it do not utter it again
Because sweets, once partaken of, suffice.
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Whatever takes place quickly is not permanent.
In forty days into a porcelain cup.A hundred are daily made in Baghdad.Hence thou seest also their price is vile.A little fowl issues from the egg and seeks foodWhilst man’s progeny has no knowledge, sense or discernment.Nevertheless the former attains nothing when grown upWhilst the latter surpasses all beings in dignity and excellence.Glass is everywhere,…
A dervish arrived in a place, the owner of which was of a noble disposition, and had surrounded himself with a company of distinguished and eloquent men, each of whom uttered something elegant or jocular, according to the fashion of wits. The dervish who had travelled through the desert and was fatigued had eaten nothing. One of the company asked him by way of encouragement likewise to say something. The dervish replied: ‘I do not possess distinction and eloquence like you and have read nothing so you must be satisfied with one distich of mine.’ The company having agreed with pleasure he recited:
Like a bachelor at the door of a bath of females.’The company, having thus been apprised of his famished condition, produced a table with bread but as he began to eat greedily the host said: ‘Friend, at any rate stop a while till my servants roast some minced meat’; whereon the dervish lifted his head…
Satan cannot conquer the righteous and the sultan the poor.
Although his mouth may gasp from penury;Because he who neglects the commands of GodWill also not care for what he may be indebted to thee.
I saw a religious man, who had fallen in love with a fellow to such a degree that he had neither strength to remain patient nor to bear the talk of the people but would not relinquish his attachment, despite of the reproaches he suffered and the grief he bore, saying:
Even if thou strike me with a sharp sword.After thee I have no refuge nor asylum.To thee alone I shall flee if I flee.I once reproached him, asking him what had become of his exquisite intellect so that it had been overcome by his base proclivity. He meditated a while and then said:‘Wherever love has…
Property is for the comfort of life, not for the accumulation of wealth. A sage, having been asked who is lucky and who is not, replied: ‘He is lucky who has eaten and sowed but he is unlucky who has died and not enjoyed.’
Who spent his life in accumulating property but has not enjoyed it.Moses, upon whom be peace, thus advised Qaroon (Korah): ‘Do thou good as Allah has done unto thee.’ But he would not listen and thou hast heard of his end:Who has not accumulated good with dirhems and dinarsHas staked his end upon his dirhems…
A padshah having issued orders to kill an innocent man, the latter said: ‘’O king, seek not thine own injury on account of the anger thou bearest towards me.’ He asked: ‘How?’ The man replied: ‘This punishment will abide with me one moment but the sin of it for ever with thee.’
Bitter and sweet, ugliness and beauty have passed away.The tyrant fanded he had done injury to us.It remained on his neck and passed away from us.This admonition having taken effect, the king spared his blood.