Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 39 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJ I K LMNO P| The son of a faqih said to his father These heart ravishing words of moralists make no impression upon me because I do not see that their actions are in conformity with their speeches | A |
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| They teach people to abandon the world | B |
| But themselves accumulate silver and corn | C |
| A scholar who only preaches and nothing more | D |
| Will not impress anyone when he speaks | E |
| He is a scholar who commits no evil | F |
| Not he who speaks to men but acts not himself | G |
| Will you enjoin virtue to mankind and forget your own souls | H |
| A scholar who follows his lusts and panders to his body | I |
| Is himself lost although he may show the way | J |
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| The father replied My son it is not proper merely on account of this vain fancy to turn away the face from the instruction of advisers to travel on the road of vanity to accuse the ullemma of aberration and whilst searching for an immaculate scholar to remain excluded from the benefits of knowledge like a blind man who one night fell into the mud and shouted O Musalmans hold a lamp on my path Whereon a courtesan who heard him asked As thou canst not see the lamp what wilt thou see with the lamp In the same way the preaching assembly is like the shop of a dealer in linen because if thou bringest no money thou canst obtain no wares and if thou bringest no inclination to the assembly thou wilt not get any felicity | I |
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| He said Listen with thy soul s ear to a scholar Although his actions may not be like his doctrines | K |
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| In vain does the gainsayer ask | L |
| How can a sleeper awaken a sleeper | M |
| A man must receive into his ears | N |
| The advice although it be written on a wall | O |
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| A pious man came to the door of a college from a monastery He broke the covenant of the company of those of the Tariq I asked him what the difference between a scholar and a monk amounts to He replied The former saves his blanket from the waves Whilst the latter strives to save the drowning man | P |
Saadi Shirazi
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