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Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 16 from The Morals of Dervishes
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Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 16 from The Morals of Dervishes
One asked Jacob who had lost his son Joseph:
“O noble and intelligent old man!
As you have smelt the odour of his garment from Egypt
Why have you not seen him in the well of Canaan?”
He replied:
“My state is that of leaping lightning.
One moment it appears and at another vanishes.
I am sometimes sitting in high heaven.
Sometimes I cannot see the back of my foot.
Were a dervish always to remain in that state
He would not care for the two worlds.”