Book 5. STORY III. The Sage and the Peacock. A sage went out to till his field, and saw a peacock busily engaged in destroying his own plumage with his beak. At seeing this insane self-destruction the sage could not refrain himself, but cried out to the peacock to forbear from mutilating himself and spoiling […]
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Masnavi e Manavi :The Lover and his Mistress.
Book IV. STORY I. The Lover and his Mistress.THE fourth book begins with an address to Husamu-‘d-Din, and this is followed by the story of the lover and his mistress, already commenced in the third book. A certain lover had been separated from his mistress for the space of seven years, during which […]
HEARKEN to the reed-flute …
Masnavi e Ma’navi Translated & Abridged by E. H. WhinfieldBook I.PROLOGUE.HEARKEN to the reed-flute, how it complains,Lamenting its banishment from its home:“Ever since they tore me from my osier bed,My plaintive notes have moved men and women to tears.I burst my breast, striving to give vent to sighs,And to express the pangs of my […]
The Oilman and his Parrot.
Masnavi e Ma’navi Translated & Abridged by E. H. Whinfield Book.1STORY II.An oilman possessed a parrot which used to amuse him with its agreeable prattle, and to watch his shop when he went out. One day, when the parrot was alone in the shop, a cat upset one of the oil-jars.
Mo’avia and Iblis.
Masnavi e Manavi Book.2 STORY XI Mo’avia and Iblis. Mo’avia, the first of the Ommiad Khalifas, was one day lying asleep in his palace, when he was awakened by a strange man. Mo’avia asked him who he was, and he replied that he was Iblis.