Book I. Story VII.The Merchant and his Clever Parrot. There was a certain merchant who kept a parrot in a cage. Being about to travel to Hindustan on business, he asked the parrot if he had any message to send to his kinsmen in that country, and the parrot desired him to tell […]
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Masnavi e Manavi : The Pauper and the Prisoners.
Book II. STORY II.The Pauper and the Prisoners.A certain pauper obtained admittance to a prison, and annoyed the prisoners by eating up all their victuals and leaving them none.
Masnavi e Manavi :The Disciple who blindly imitated his Shaikh
Book V. Story VI.The Disciple who blindly imitated his Shaikh. An ignorant youth entered an assembly of pious persons who were being addressed by a holy Shaikh. He saw the Shaikh weeping copiously, and in mere blind and senseless imitation he copied the Shaikh’s behavior, and wept as copiously himself, though he understood not […]
Masnavi e Manavi :Bayazid and the Saint
Book 2. Story X.Bayazid and the Saint The celebrated Sufi, Abu Yazid or Bayazid of Bastam, in Khorasan, who lived in the third century of the Flight, was once making a pilgrimage to Mecca, and visiting all the “Pillars of insight” who lived m the various towns that lay on his route. At […]
Masnavi e Manavi :The Deadly Mosque.
The Deadly MosqueBook III. Story XVIII.In the suburbs of a certain city there was a mosque in which none could sleep a night and live. Some said it was haunted by malevolent fairies; others, that it was under the baneful influence of a magic spell;
Masnavi e Manavi :The King and his Two Slaves.
Book 2. Story III. The King and his Two Slaves.A king purchased two slaves, one extremely handsome, and the other very ugly. He sent the first away to the bath, and in his absence questioned the other.
Masnavi e Manavi :The Prophet and his Infidel Guest.
Book V.STORY I.AFTER the usual address to Husamu-‘d-Din follows a comment on the precept addressed to Abraham, “Take four birds and draw them towards thee, and cut them in pieces.
Masnavi e Manavi : The Three Fishes
Book 4.Story V. The Three Fishes This story, which is taken from the book of Kalila and Damnah,1 is as follows. There was in a secluded place a lake, which was fed by a running stream, and in this lake were three fishes, one very wise,
Masnavi e Manavi : The Sufi and the Qazi.
A sick man laboring under an incurable disease went to a physician for advice. The physician felt his pulse, and perceived that no treatment would cure him, and therefore told him to go away and do whatever he had a fancy for.
Masnavi e Manavi : The Travelers who ate the Young Elephant.
Book III. Story I. The Travelers who ate the Young Elephant. A PARTY of travelers lost their way in a wilderness, and were well nigh famished with hunger. While they were considering what to do, a sage came up and condoled with them on their unfortunate plight.