Book II.STORY IV.The Falcon and the OwlsA certain falcon lost his way, and found himself in the waste places inhabited by owls. The owls suspected that he had come to seize their nests, and all surrounded him to make an end of him.
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Masnavi e Manavi :The Prince who, after having been beguiled by a Courtesan, returned to his True Love.
Book 4STORY VIII. The Prince who, after having been beguiled bya Courtesan, returned to his True Love. A certain king dreamed that his dearly beloved son, a youth of great promise, had come to an untimely end. On awaking he was rejoiced to find that his son was still alive; but he reflected […]
Masnavi e Manavi : The Elephant in a Dark Room.
Book III. Story VI.Some Hindoos were exhibiting an elephant in a dark room, and many people collected to see it. But as the place was too dark to permit them to see the elephant, they all felt it with their hands, to gain an idea of what it was like.
Masnavi e Manavi : The Drunken Turkish Amir and the Minstrel.
Book 6.Story III.The Drunken Turkish Amir and the Minstrel. Then follow exhortations to undergo “the pains of negation,” as they are called in the Gulshan i Raz, i.e., even as the great saint and poet Faridu-‘d-Din ‘Attar cast away his drugs, to cast one’s own will,
Masnavi e Manavi :The Merchant and his Clever Parrot.
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 […]
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.