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- I heard a padshah giving orders to kill a prisoner. The helpless
fellow began to insult the king on that occasion of despair, with32 lines, 1 comment - One of the kings of Khorasan had a vision in a dream of Sultan
Mahmud, one hundred years after his death. His whole person appeared15 lines - One of the sons of Harun-ur-Rashid went to his father and angrily informed him that the son of an official had used insulting expressions towards him whereon Ha9 lines
- I have heard that a royal prince of short stature and mean presence,
whose brothers were tall and good-looking, once saw his father59 lines - It is narrated that a tyrant who purchased wood from dervishes forcibly gave it away to rich -people gratuitously. A pious man passing near said:
‘Thou art a17 lines - A band of Arab brigands having taken up their position on the top of
a mountain and closed the passage of caravans, the inhabitants of91 lines - A king was subject to a terrible disease, the mention of which is not sanctioned by custom. The tribe of Yunani physicians agreed that this pain cannot be allay8 lines
- I saw at the palace-gate of Oglimish the son of a military officer
who was endued with marvellous intellect, sagacity, perception and28 lines - A padshah having issued orders to kill an innocent man, the latter said: ‘\6 lines
- It is narrated that one of the kings of Persia had stretched forth
his tyrannical hand to the possessions of his subjects and had begun42 lines - A company of philosophers were discussing a subject in the palace of Kesra and Barzachumihr, having remained silent, they asked him why he took no share in the5 lines
- A padshah was in the same boat with a Persian slave who had never
before been at sea and experienced the inconvenience of a vessel. He22 lines, 2 comments - King Zuzan had a khajah of noble sentiments and of good aspect who served his companions when they were present and spoke well of them when they were absent. He15 lines
- Hormuzd, being asked what fault the veziers of his father had
committed that he imprisoned them, replied: 'I discovered no fault.12 lines - A solitary dervish was sitting in a corner of the desert when a padshah happened to pass by but, ease having made him independent, he took no notice. The sultan16 lines
- An Arab king was sick in his state of decrepitude so that all
hopes of life were cut off. A trooper entered the gate with the good0 lines - An impostor arranged his hair in a peculiar fashion, pretended to be a descendant of A'li and entered the town with a caravan from the Hejaz, saying that he had6 lines
- I was constantly engaged in prayer, at the head of the prophet
Yahia's tomb in the cathedral mosque of Damascus, when one of the Arab27 lines - There were two brothers: one of them in the service of the sultan and the other gaining his livelihood by the effort of his arm. The wealthy man once asked his7 lines
- A dervish, whose prayers met with answers, made his appearance, and Hejaj Yusuf, calling him, said: \5 lines
- A Chinese slave-girl having been brought to a king, he desired to have connection with her whilst in a state of intoxication but, as she repelled him, he became17 lines
- An unjust king asked a devotee what kind of worship is best? He replied: "For thee the best is to sleep one half of the day so as not to injure the people for a0 lines
- One of the servants of Umrulais had fled but some men, having been sent in pursuit, brought him back. The vezier who bore a grudge towards him desired him to be8 lines
- I heard a king, who had changed night into day by pleasures, saying in his drunkenness:
\24 lines - One of the Arab kings ordered his officials to double the allowance of a certain attendant because he was always at the palace expecting orders while the other0 lines
- One of the ancient kings neglected the government of his realm and kept the army in distress. Accordingly the whole of it ran away when a powerful enemy appea10 lines
- A man had attained great excellence in the art of wrestling, who knew three hundred and sixty exquisite tricks and daily exhibited something new. He had a parti0 lines, 2 comments
- A vezier, who had been removed from his post, entered the circle of dervishes and the blessing of their society took such effect upon him that he became conte14 lines
- A vezier paid a visit to Zulnun Misri and asked for his favour, saying: \5 lines
- One of my friends complained of the unpropitious times, telling me that he had a slender income, a large family, without strength to bear the load of poverty an49 lines
- The veziers of Nushirvan happened to discuss an important affair of state, each giving his opinion according to his knowledge. The king likewise gave his opinio5 lines
- Several men were in my company whose external appearance displayed the adornment of piety. A great man who had conceived a very good opinion of these persons ha21 lines
- One of the veziers of a king treated his subordinates with kindness and sought the goodwill of his colleagues. Once he happened to be called to account by the k7 lines
- A royal prince, having inherited abundant treasures from his father, opened the hand of liberality and satisfied his impulse of generosity by lavishing without12 lines
- I was sitting in a vessel with a company of great men when a boat which contained two brothers happened to sink near us. One of the great men promised a hundred0 lines
- It is related that, whilst some game was being roasted for Nushirvan the just during a hunting party, no salt could be found. Accordingly a boy was sent to an a7 lines
- Someone had brought information to Nushirvan the just that an enemy of his had been removed from this world by God the most high. He asked: \3 lines, 1 comment
- I heard that an oppressor ruined the habitations of the subjects to fill the treasury of the sultan, unmindful of the maxim of philosophers, who have said: \18 lines
- Harun-ur-Rashid said when the country of Egypt was surrendered to him: \11 lines
- It is narrated that an oppressor of the people, a soldier, hit the head of a pious man with a stone and that the dervish, having no means of taking vengeance, p9 lines
- Iskandur Rumi, having been asked how he had conquered the east and the west, considering that the treasures, territories, reigns and armies of former kings exce7 lines
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