- A liberal man who eats and bestows is better than a devote who fasts and hoards.1 lines
- Two things are contrary to reason: to enjoy more than is decreed and to die before the time appointed.
Fate will not change by a thousand laments5 lines - Loqman, being asked from whom he had learnt civility, replied: ‘From those who had no civility because what appeared to me unbecoming in them I refrained from d5 lines
- Mendacity resembles a violent blow, the scar of which remains, though the wound may be healed. Seest thou not how the brothers of Joseph became noted for falseh5 lines
- A dervish wanted something and a man told him that a certain individual possessed untold wealth who, if he were made aware of his want, would not consider it pr5 lines
- I remember having once walked all night with a caravan and then slept on the edge of the desert. A distracted man who had accompanied us on that journey raised9 lines
- A rich profligate is a lump of earth gilded and a pious dervish is a sweetheart besmeared with earth. The latter is the patched garment of Moses and the former5 lines
- Although a sultan’s garment of honour is dear yet one’s own old robe is more dear; and though the food of a great man may be delicious, the broken crumbs of one3 lines
- Whoever does not betake himself to the path of rectitude in consequence of the castigations of this world will fall under eternal punishment in the next. Allah3 lines
- An illustrious man had a worthy son who died. Being asked what he desired to be written upon the sarcophagus of the tomb, he replied: ‘The verses of the gloriou5 lines
- A man without virility is a woman and an avaricious devote is a highway robber.
O thou, who hast put on a white robe for a show,5 lines - When all the artifices of an enemy have failed he shakes the chain of friendship, and thereon performs acts of friendship which no enemy is able to do.1 lines
- A man, professing to be a hermit in the desert of Syria, attended for years to his devotions and subsisted on the leaves of trees. A padshah, who had gone in th38 lines
- I had a wound under my robe and a sheikh asked me daily how, but not where it is, and I learned that he refrained because it is not admissible to mention every5 lines
- One year discord had arisen in a caravan among the walking portion and I also travelled on foot. To obtain justice we attacked each other’s heads and faces, giv5 lines
- The son of a wealthy but avaricious old man, having fallen sick, his well-wishers advised him that it would be proper to get the whole Quran recited or else to5 lines
- If every night were to be the night of Qadr, the night of Qadr would be without Qadr.
If all stones were rubies of Badakhshan,3 lines - Whatever takes place quickly is not permanent.
I have heard that eastern loam is made11 lines - May that prince never govern a kingdom
Who is not an obedient slave to God.2 lines - 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 confo17 lines
- Reveal not the secret faults of men because thou wilt put them to shame and wilt forfeit thy own confidence.0 lines
- One day, in the pride of youth, I had travelled hard and arrived perfectly exhausted in the evening at the foot of an acclivity. A weak old man, who had likewis5 lines
- In the exuberance of youth, as it usually happens and as thou knowest, I was on the closest terms of intimacy with a sweetheart who had a melodious voice and a39 lines
- Reveal not thy secret to any man although he may be trustworthy, because no one can keep thy secret better than thyself.
Silence is preferable than to5 lines - Who quarrels with great men sheds his own blood.
One who thinks that he is great5 lines - Life is in the keeping of a single breath and the world is an existence between two annihilations. Those who sell the religion for the world ‘are asses’, they s3 lines
- A scholar of note had a controversy with an unbeliever but, being
unable to cope with him in argument, shook his head and retired.9 lines - Knowledge is for the cherishing of religion, not for amassing wealth.
Who sold abstinence, knowledge and piety3 lines - A scholar is not meekly to overlook the folly of a common person because thus both parties are injured; the dignity of the former being lessened, and the ignora3 lines
- I heard about a wealthy man who was as well known for his avarice as Hatim Tai for his liberality. Outwardly he displayed the appearance of wealth but inwardly22 lines
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