Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 17

Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)



A bareheaded and barefooted pedestrian who had arrived from Kufah with the Hejaz-caravan of pilgrims joined us, strutted about and recited:

       ‘I am neither riding a camel nor under a load like a camel.  
        I am neither a lord of subjects nor the slave of a potentate.  
        Grief for the present, or distress for the past, does not trouble me.  
        I draw my breath in comfort and thus spend my life.’  

A camel-rider shouted to him: ‘O dervish, where art thou going? Return, for thou wilt expire from hardships.’ He paid no attention but entered the desert and marched. When we reached the station at the palm-grove of Mahmud, the rich man was on the point of death and the dervish, approaching his pillow, said: ‘We have not expired from hardship but thou hast died on a dromedary.’

        A man wept all night near the head of a patient.  
        When the day dawned he died and the patient revived.  
        Many a fleet charger had fallen dead  
        While a lame ass reached the station alive.  
        Often healthy persons were in the soil  
        Buried and the wounded did not die.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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