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Poems about Eastern
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The springtime mountain is on fire;
buds are burning unopened.
When the sheets have yonder Torment to their bosom ta'en to rest,
Think I, "Hides the night-adorning Moon within the cloudlet's breast."
Transgression by whomsoever committed is blamable but more so in learned men, because learning is a weapon for combating Satan and, when the possessor of a weap
When my bones have bleached and blended
What new life will come to me?
I heard a king, who had changed night into day by pleasures, saying in his drunkenness:
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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 allay
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 Ha
A padshah having issued orders to kill an innocent man, the latter said: ‘\
Go and let it be known to all lovers:
I am the man who gave his heart to love.
I was one night meditating on the time which had elapsed, repenting of the life I had squandered and perforating the stony mansion of my heart with adamantine t
Several travellers were on a journey together and equally sharing each other’s troubles and comforts. I desired to accompany them but they would not agree. Then
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: \
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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 his
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 good
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 opinio
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 other
Moses, to whom be salutation, beheld a dervish who had on account of his nudity concealed himself in the sand exclaiming: ‘O Moses, utter a supplication to God
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 sultan
A dervish, whose prayers met with answers, made his appearance, and Hejaj Yusuf, calling him, said: \
A thief paid a visit to the house of a pious man but, although he sought a great deal, found nothing and was much grieved. The pious man, who knew this, threw t
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 became
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 k
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 be
A royal prince, having inherited abundant treasures from his father, opened the hand of liberality and satisfied his impulse of generosity by lavishing without
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 ha
It's the true man who leads the mystic life
Whoever is human, whoever dares.
I saw A’bd-u-Qader Gaillani in the sanctuary of the Ka’bah with his face on the pebbles and saying: ‘O lord, pardon my sins and, if I deserve punishment, cause
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, p
We entered the house of realization,
we witnessed the body.
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 conte
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