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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…
The teeth of all men are blunted by sourness, but those of the qazi by sweetness.
Will prove that ten melon-fields are due to thee.
The son of a pious man inherited great wealth left him by some uncles, whereon he plunged into dissipation and profligacy, became a spendthrift and, in short, left no heinous transgression unperpetrated and no intoxicant untasted. I advised him and said: ‘My son, income is a flowing water and expense a turning mill; that is to say, only he who has a fixed revenue is entitled to indulge in abundant expenses.
Because the sailors chant this song:“If there be no rain in the mountainsThe bed of the Tigris will be dry in one year.”‘Follow wisdom and propriety, abandon play and sport because thy wealth will be exhausted, whereon thou wilt fall into trouble and will repent.’ The youth was prevented by the delights of the flute…
I noticed the son of a rich man, sitting on the grave of his father and quarreling with a dervish-boy, saying: ‘The sarcophagus of my father’s tomb is of stone and its epitaph is elegant. The pavement is of marble, tesselated with turquois-like bricks. But what resembles thy father’s grave? It consists of two contiguous bricks with two handfuls of mud thrown over it.’ The dervish-boy listened to all this and then observed: ‘By the time thy father is able to shake off those heavy stones which cover him, mine will have reached paradise.’
No doubt walks easily.A dervish who carries only the load of povertyWill also arrive lightly burdened at the gate of deathWhilst he who lived in happiness, wealth and easeWill undoubtedly on all these accounts die hard.At all events, a prisoner who escapes from all his bondsIs to be considered more happy than an amir taken…