Analysis of Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 35
In conformity with the above sentiments an affair of importance emerged to a padshah, who thereon vowed that, if it terminated according to his wishes, he would present devotees with a certain sum of money. His wish having been fulfilled, it became necessary to keep his promise. Accordingly he gave a purse of dirhems to one of his confidential servants to distribute it among recluses. It is related that the slave was intelligent and shrewd. He walked about all day and returning at nightfall, kissed the dirhems and deposited them before the king with the remark that he had not found any devotees. The king rejoined: ‘What nonsense is this? As far as I know there are four hundred devotees in this town. He said: ‘Lord of the world, who is a devotee does not accept money and who accepts it is not a devotee.’ The king smiled and said to his courtiers: ‘Despite of my wishing to do good to this class of worshippers of God, this rogue bears them emnity and thwarts my wish but truth is on his side.’
If a devotee has taken dirhems and dinars
Find another who is more a devotee than he.
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Metre | 0010010011001011010011011011111100010111011101011010111011101011011001111001001101111111010101010101111010101101000111011100101110100100101011001111111010101011101111111111101010111111011100111011001011110010110111100011110111111110011111110111111111 10011101010 101011100111 |
Characters | 1,140 |
Words | 203 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 3 |
Letters per line (avg) | 289 |
Words per line (avg) | 66 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 434 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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