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Chapter, Paragraph
1502 5, Story10| Thy garden is a bed of leeks.~ The more thou weedest
1503 7, Story17| Like the solution of a legal question to a learned man.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1504 5, Story19| hearts,~ That instead of a lemon in thy presence~ They might
1505 2, Story20| night had elapsed.~ Ask the length of the night from my eyelids~
1506 7, Story4 | schoolmaster happens to be lenient~ The children will play
1507 1, Story33| guarded him treated him leniently and the great men expatiated
1508 6, Story5 | satisfied with cheese Eke a leopard.~ ~ ~ An old hag had dyed
1509 8, Admon10| excess~ Nor mildness; for it lessens his authority.~ He neither
1510 5, Story4 | the seven portions of the lesson by heart,~ When thou art
1511 Intro, 3 | orators and instructive to letter-writers. In short, some roses of
1512 7, Story4 | this inscription in golden letters:~ The severity of a teacher
1513 1, Story16| the house of a dervish~ To levy a tax on land and garden.~
1514 4, Story1 | consider him as a most wicked liar.~ ~ ~ Virtue is to the eyes
1515 7, Story20| servants, the surplus of their~liberalities being extended to widows,
1516 7, Story20| without money nor a prisoner~liberated. How can the like of us
1517 1, Story33| endeavoured to effect his liberation. Those who~guarded him treated
1518 1, Story40| desire of the negro was libidinous, his lust~overcame him,
1519 3, Story25| overtaken him.'~ ~ ~ When the life-taking foe comes in the rear~ Fate
1520 1, Story27| elude; whereon the master, lifting~him up with his hands from
1521 7, Story18| poverty~ Will also arrive lightly burdened at the gate of
1522 1, Story10| calamity of time afflicts one limb~ The other limbs cannot
1523 3, Story21| therein?~ ~ ~ They said: 'The lime-mortar is not clean.'~ We replied: '
1524 1, Story39| and~discrimination were so limited that when the tribe of Egyptian~
1525 7, Story20| eloquence to roam beyond the limits of our expectation,~we submitted
1526 3, Story1 | in Aleppo in the row of linen-drapers:~'Lords of wealth, if you
1527 2, Story44| objected to the last two lines,~saying: 'God the most high
1528 7, Story20| grief and pleasure are all linked~ together.~ ~ ~ 'Perceivest
1529 7, Story20| consequence of~poverty? Lion-hearted men were on account of their
1530 6, Story6 | been harsh~ For thou art a lion-like man, and I an old woman.'~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1531 Intro, 2 | Without an army like bellicose lions.~ Thus it happened that
1532 8, 70 | they give advice and thou listenest not, they put thee in~
1533 3, Story28| standing~over his head, listening. He looked at the figure
1534 4, Story4 | neither believes in nor listens to. Then of~what use is
1535 Intro, 2 | sugar,~and the scraps of his literary compositions which are hawked
1536 7, Story12| a man sitting in a camel litter and saying to his companion:~'
1537 5, Story13| sight and said: 'What a loathsome aspect is this! What an
1538 7, Story5 | generosity~ Must not put a lock upon his dirhems.~ When
1539 7, Story14| the man became blind and lodged a complaint with~the judge
1540 7, Story20| our state and heard our logic, he plunged his head~into
1541 3, Story28| insult of the boatman and~longed to take vengeance upon him.
1542 4, Story10| are these? They have let loose the dogs and have tied down
1543 3, Story1 | the row of linen-drapers:~'Lords of wealth, if you were just
1544 5, Story20| favours conferred by thy lordship in~former times upon thy
1545 1, Story4 | Majusi.'~ ~ The spouse of Lot became a friend of wicked
1546 1, Story23| bounty of this dynasty, I am loth~that on the day of resurrection
1547 8, 38 | whilst an ignoramus is loud-voiced and~intrinsically empty
1548 Intro, 4 | men praise you or not~ A lovely maid stands in no need of
1549 7, Story20| him fresh dates which he loves~ Has no need to throw stones
1550 1, Story1 | and forgive~men; for Allah loveth the beneficent.'~ The king,
1551 7, Story20| dervish,~ Because thou wilt be luckless if thou diest in this frame
1552 8, 41 | design is ignorance and lunacy.~ ~ ~ Discernment is necessary.
1553 3, Story28| the house for fear~of the Luris. Accordingly he invited
1554 2, Story39| scholar who follows his lusts and panders to his body~
1555 3, Story29| hear the sound of drum, lute or fife.~ The eye may be
1556 Intro, 5 | this beautiful garden and luxuriant grove and to make it~resemble
1557 2, Story47| neglects his orisons, is luxurious, sensual, turns day into~
1558 8, 64 | if he becomes noted for lying,~ People do not believe
1559 3, Story1 | Story 1~ ~ ~ A Maghrabi supplicant said in Aleppo
1560 7, Story4 | saw a schoolmaster in the Maghrib country, who was sour-faced,~
1561 1, Story17| his sight?~ To God that magnanimity and bounty is surrendered~
1562 1, Story19| that it~reached its present magnitude.'~ ~ If the king eats one
1563 Intro, 4 | praise you or not~ A lovely maid stands in no need of a tire
1564 5, Story21| Was pledged to a chaste maiden.~ I read that in the great
1565 5, Story1 | Story 1~ ~ ~ Hasan Maimundi was asked that, as the Sultan
1566 1, Story4 | a Jew, a Christian or a Majusi.'~ ~ The spouse of Lot became
1567 3, Story28| wealth and power graceful male and female slaves and~quick-handed
1568 1, Story16| also apprehensive of the malevolence of enemies who would~laugh
1569 1, Story16| rejoined: 'Hush. If the envious malevolently say that I am a camel and~
1570 2, Story24| thou well behaved that a maligner~ May not find occasion to
1571 1, Story1 | disposition and the latter from malignity; and wise men~have said: "
1572 7, Story12| Tell on my part to the man-biting Haji~ Who tears the skins
1573 2, Story4 | In thy absence like a man-devouring wolf.~ ~ ~ Who brings the
1574 1, Story16| affable behaviour and good management elicited~approbation so
1575 2, Story5 | It is necessary to show manhood in the fight.~ Of what profit
1576 5, Story1 | how it~happens that he manifests towards none of them so
1577 5, Story9 | bear the persecutions of mannerless persons.' He replied: 'O~
1578 7, Story20| hospitality,~ Tithes, offerings, manumissions, gifts and sacrifices.~
1579 7, Story18| elegant. The~pavement is of marble, tesselated with turquois-like
1580 2, Story42| and dirt.~ My step in the march is more advancing.~ Then
1581 2, Story17| but~entered the desert and marched. When we reached the station
1582 8, 60 | branded thyself with the mark of ignorance,~ When thou
1583 Intro, 1 | Bountiful, majestic, affable, marked with the seal of God.~ ~
1584 6, Story2 | terminated, she~was given in marriage to a young man who was violent,
1585 1, Story5 | officer~who was endued with marvellous intellect, sagacity, perception
1586 3, Story28| intimate courtiers to the Masalla of Shiraz and ordered his
1587 1, Story4 | every~comfort, and kept masters to educate him, till they
1588 7, Story14| base fellow to transact.~ A mat-maker although employed in weaving~
1589 1, Story4 | canst not eat sugar from a mat-reed.'~ ~ The vezier heard these
1590 7, Story11| not that it is only in the material figure.~ Virtue is necessary
1591 2, Story47| colours.~ Thou hast reed mats inside thy house.~ ~ ~
1592 1, Story40| rejoined: 'What~would it have mattered if he had for one night
1593 Intro, 3 | this world's life.~ ~ After maturely considering these sentiments,
1594 1, Story16| sufficiency of wisdom and~maturity of intellect is this? The
1595 2, Story27| Knowest thou what that matutinal bulbul said to me?~ What
1596 7, Story20| looking for his~evening meal. How can they resemble each
1597 3, Story7 | consumed every day three meals. It happened that they were
1598 7, Story20| difficulty, guard it with meanness and abandon it with reluctance,~
1599 8, Admon10| Admonition 10~ ~ ~ Wrath beyond measure produces estrangement and
1600 1, Story32| before thee buttermilk~ Two measures of it will be water and
1601 6, Story1 | Neither incantations nor medicines are of any avail.'~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1602 Intro, 5 | orator, old, aged,~ First meditates and then speaks.~ Do not
1603 3, Story23| that he was sailing in the Mediterranean with the pride of~Pharaoh
1604 8, 44 | 43~ ~ ~ A scholar is not meekly to overlook the folly of
1605 8, 61 | Maxim 57~ ~ ~ The meekness of the camel is known to
1606 2, Story15| Story 15~ ~ ~ A padshah, meeting a holy man, asked him whether
1607 2, Story20| amusements and convivial meetings. When the advice of my~sheikh
1608 3, Story28| pleasant is the gentle and melancholy lay~ To the ear of the boon
1609 1, Story32| father was~a Christian at Melitah. How can he be a descendant
1610 2, Story20| enchants the heart~ But the melodies of lovers of Isfahan or
1611 8, 3 | cucumbers~ Will prove that ten melon-fields are due to thee.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1612 Intro, 3 | Life is snow, the sun is melting hot.~ Little remains, but
1613 8, 63 | admissible to mention every member; and wise men have also
1614 3, Story28| spear may come out, the memory of an~offence will remain
1615 7, Story20| royal pearls are found, men-devouring sharks must also be.~The
1616 1, Story3 | said occasion the king was menaced by a powerful~enemy and
1617 5, Story4 | to thy selfishness~ Art mendacious in the game of love.~ If
1618 7, Story20| men except by reason of mendicancy or else, to him who has~
1619 7, Story20| the most high and glorious mentions in his revealed word~the
1620 3, Story22| and fifty camel loads of~merchandise with forty slaves and servants.
1621 2, Story20| host: 'For God's sake~ Put mercury in my ear that I may not
1622 1, Story40| a corpse in the month of Merdad.~ ~ At that time the desire
1623 8, Story | Knowest thou not that the meritorious are always neglected?'~ ~ ~
1624 6, Story5 | but I saw~that the root of merriment had been cut and the roses
1625 7, Story5 | fear of distress?~ Go, be merry, my heart-rejoicing friend.~
1626 Intro, 5 | cat is a lion in catching mice~ But a mouse in combat with
1627 2, Story9 | alluded to was when Gabriel or Michael~inspired him whilst on other
1628 2, Story34| Protected from the inclemency of mid-winter~ Like sucklings who have
1629 5, Story16| drunk of wine awakens at midnight,~ One drunk of the cupbearer
1630 7, Story5 | water and expense a turning mill; that is to say, only he~
1631 3, Story25| been amputated killed a millipede and~a pious passer-by exclaimed: '
1632 Intro, 5 | presence of the sun, and a minaret looks low at the foot of
1633 2, Story37| till my servants roast some~minced meat'; whereon the dervish
1634 1, Story24| The officials of the king, mindful of the~benefits they had
1635 7, Story20| necessities~captured in mines which they had dug to rob
1636 8, 58 | David~ All iron became by miracle soft like wax,~ He asked
1637 2, Story9 | the~Arab country and his miracles well known, entered the
1638 1, Story20| some of the oppressor's~misdeeds and bad conduct, he had
1639 6, Story2 | behaviour, and experienced the miseries of penury. She nevertheless~
1640 3, Story21| sultan thus addressed a miserly beggar who~had accumulated
1641 8, 71 | trap.~ Take advice by the misfortunes of others~ That others may
1642 1, Story29| vezier paid a visit to Zulnun Misri and asked for his favour,~
1643 3, Story28| hundred archers in his service missed the ring, except~a little
1644 5, Story4 | Hast thou heard that the mistress secretly~ Told him who had
1645 2, Story34| hyacinths like the ringlets of mistresses~ Protected from the inclemency
1646 5, Story18| life and to retire~from mixing in society:~ ~ ~ Last night
1647 2, Story32| in~digging the earth of a moat in Tarapolis, when one of
1648 3, Story8 | hunger?' He rejoined:~'Be moderate. Eat and drink but not to
1649 3, Story28| remedy~against want is in the moderation of desires.~ ~ ~ No one
1650 7, Story20| Dujjal.~ ~ ~ What a number of modest women have on account of
1651 7, Story20| persons pollute the skirt of modesty by~transgression, and those
1652 2, Story11| burning fire does not kindle moist wood. I was~sorry for instructing
1653 4, Story1 | Look ugly to the eye of the mole.~ ~ ~
1654 4, Story12| did not think proper to~molest him. In course of time,
1655 1, Story27| the man said who suffered~molestation from one whom he had educated?~ ~
1656 2, Story41| struck him and otherwise molested him; whereon he complained
1657 3, Story29| and praised him. After the monarch's departure the sheikh was
1658 7, Story20| am I to do? There is no~monasticism in Islam." Among the number
1659 6, Story5 | of time is a sufficient monitor.~ ~ ~ When thou art old
1660 2, Story39| between a scholar and a monk~ amounts to?~ He replied: '
1661 8, 1 | is a sufficient basis of monotheism.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1662 8, 1 | either gold at the feet of a monotheist~ Or place an Indian sabre
1663 2, Story39| heart-ravishing~words of moralists make no impression upon
1664 7, Story3 | his lord in refinement of morals-and Allah caused her to grow
1665 1, Story25| servants:~ ~ If a man comes two mornings to serve the shah~ He will
1666 1, Story16| hidden favours.~ ~ Sit not morose on account of the turns
1667 3, Story13| hanging lips and sitting morosely. He~returned immediately
1668 5, Story18| an angel in heaven but no mortal~ Can be on earth equal in
1669 1, Story36| in service?'~ ~ To leaven mortar of quicklime with the hand~
1670 7, Story9 | thus with their fathers and~mothers, they were beloved and respected
1671 1, Story26| from~his soft bed to a hot mound of ashes-the same pious
1672 7, Story20| shine upon no~one? They are mounted on the steed of ability
1673 5, Story10| Perhaps it wears black as mourning for my beauty."'~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1674 Intro, 5 | in catching mice~ But a mouse in combat with a tiger.~ ~
1675 8, Admon9 | thee.~ ~ ~ Boast not of thy moustaches when thou seest thy foe
1676 1, Story18| useful purpose. Cease this movement because~calamities may arise
1677 3, Story17| In a dry desert and among moving sand~ It is the same to
1678 2, Story20| whole night there.~ ~ ~ The muezzin shouted the call to prayers
1679 4, Story13| this mosque there are old~muezzins' to each of whom I pay five
1680 4, Story8 | Sultan Mahmud asked Hasan Muimandi one day what~the sultan
1681 1, Story18| distributest a treasure to the multitude~ Each householder will receive
1682 8, 67 | wilt turn away from me with mundane cares, and if I make thee~
1683 8, 2 | oppressors; the police, murderers; and~the qazi to hear complaints
1684 8, 57 | seeing the road. The Imam Murshid Muhammad Ghazali, upon whom
1685 8, 11 | Jew was debating with a Musalman~ Till I shook with laughter
1686 7, Story20| that in a garden there are musk-willows as well~as withered sticks?
1687 Intro, 3 | of intellect: to remain mute~ When it is proper to speak
1688 5, Story14| Despite of an this, however, mutual attachment of~heart still
1689 7, Story20| the kings of the period, Muzaffar-ud-dunia wa uddin Atabek Abu Bekr~
1690 5, Story19| beauty~of Laila when the mystery of her aspect would have
1691 5, Story17| recited:~ ~ ~ 'I am tired by a nahvi who makes a furious attack~
1692 8, 52 | Who has such a foe on the nape of his neck?~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1693 7, Story13| was learning how to throw naphtha was thus reproved by~a sage: '
1694 5, Story18| first scattered roses and narcissi.~ The turns of heaven have
1695 3, Story17| jewellers at~Bosrah and narrating stories to them. He said: '
1696 3, Story14| to~the ignorance of the narrator. Accordingly I shall briefly
1697 3, Story29| may be without the rose or nasrin.~ If no feather pillow
1698 3, Story28| till he again reached his native town. His father~was glad
1699 8, 37 | land of Canaan having no natural excellence,~ The birth of
1700 7, Story6 | instruction is the same but the natures are~different.'~ ~ ~ Although
1701 1, Story20| belly when it sticks in the navel.'~ ~ ~
1702 2, Story9 | getting wetted and today he nearly perished in this paltry
1703 8, 52 | an evil to himself.~ What needest thou to show enmity to him~
1704 3, Story12| his life also.~ For the needful for which thou appliest,
1705 6, Story9 | coarse robe except with a needle of steel.~ He complained
1706 1, Story25| in amusements~and sports, neglecting their duties. A pious man
1707 8, 53 | travels on foot, whilst a negligent~scholar is like a sleeping
1708 1, Story40| presented her to one of his~negro-slaves whose upper lip was higher
1709 Intro, 2 | entangled like the hair of negroes;~ They were all human beings,
1710 3, Story28| destined not to see its nest again~ Will be carried by
1711 7, Story9 | which may be seen in~the nests of scorpions are the evidence
1712 2, Story35| all day and~returning at nightfall, kissed the dirhems and
1713 6, Story2 | Expect not faithfulness from nightingales~ Who sing every moment to
1714 3, Story28| falls into ruin~ The king of Nimruz will go to bed hungry.~ ~ ~
1715 Intro, 1 | sea has he whose pilot is Noah?~ ~ He attained exaltation
1716 8, 65 | Maxim 61~ ~ ~ The noblest of beings is evidently man,
1717 7, Story11| fifteen years; secondly nocturnal pollutions; and~thirdly,
1718 1, Story4 | sentiments, approved of them nolens volens,~praised the opinion
1719 5, Story18| life sank into the mire of~non-existence. The smoke of separation
1720 3, Story22| had talked so much of this nonsenses that no more strength~remained
1721 8, 72 | progressing upon whom the noose of happiness has been~flung?~ ~ ~
1722 2, Story22| replete with food up to the nose.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1723 1, Story40| lip was higher than his nostrils whilst the~lower one hung
1724 8, 5 | sage was asked: 'Of so many notable, high and fertile trees~
1725 4, Story4 | Story 4~ ~ ~ A scholar of note had a controversy with an
1726 7, Story4 | behaviour had attained some~notoriety, he was expelled from the
1727 1, Story10| when one of the Arab~kings, notorious for his injustice, happened
1728 1, Story10| cudgelled his brains for nought and begotten vain imaginations.~
1729 3, Story5 | an appetite such as thou nourishest~would rupture a chain and
1730 | nowhere
1731 3, Story16| who had on account of~his nudity concealed himself in the
1732 1, Story3 | troops of the enemy were numerous, and that~the king's, being
1733 1, Story4 | persons is like throwing nuts on a cupola.~ ~ 'It is preferable
1734 3, Story22| servants. One evening in the oasis~of Kish he took me into
1735 Intro, 1 | requirements of justice if thou obeyest not.~ ~ There is a tradition
1736 1, Story28| subjects~and subjects not for obeying kings.'~ ~ The padshah is
1737 7, Story20| hoarded store of recluses, the objects~of pilgrims, the refuge
1738 1, Story23| freedom to this bastard as an oblation to the tomb of thy~father
1739 2, Story48| Companionship does not obliterate nobility.~ Although I have
1740 5, Story16| the rising dawn~after an obscure night or the water of immortality
1741 2, Story9 | are~between brilliancy and obscurity.~ ~ ~ Thou showest thy countenance
1742 8, 78 | When a wise man encounters obstacles, he leaps away and casts
1743 3, Story11| poison.'~ ~ ~ Whatever thou obtainest by entreaties from base
1744 2, Story27| fellow-travellers. They occasionally sung and recited spiritual
1745 7, Story5 | restrain myself, who am occupying the highest seat~of liberality,
1746 5, Story21| indite a tale of love on this occurrence.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1747 5, Story20| accusation unless I obtain ocular evidence because~philosophers
1748 5, Story13| aspect is this! What an odious~figure! What cursed object
1749 1, Story20| philosophers, who have said: 'Who offends God the most high to gain~
1750 7, Story20| considered~these words offensive and said: 'My good friend,
1751 7, Story20| and hospitality,~ Tithes, offerings, manumissions, gifts and
1752 1, Story34| informed him that the son of an official had used insulting~expressions
1753 1, Story5 | saw at the palace-gate of Oglimish the son of a military officer~
1754 1, Story34| imprisonment. Then Harun said: 'Oh my son, it would be generous
1755 1, Story13| camphor-light~ Will soon not have an oil-lamp for the night.~ ~ One of
1756 2, Story23| profiteth a closed door? The Omniscient~ Knows what I conceal or
1757 1, Story35| this one because,~when I once-happened to lag behind in the desert,
1758 3, Story29| of his desire.~ ~ ~ Who opens to himself a door for begging~
1759 5, Story20| roaming about and seeking for~opportunities, according to the saying
1760 8, 61 | dust at his feet~ But if he opposes thee fill his two eyes with
1761 5, Story17| Upon me, like Zaid in his opposition to Amru.~ When Zaid submits
1762 1, Story11| Musalmans.'~ ~ O tyrant, who oppressest thy subjects,~ How long
1763 1, Story20| loads~ Are superior to men oppressing mankind.~ ~ When the king
1764 8, 2 | The padshah is to remove oppressors; the police, murderers;
1765 1, Story40| king's hand again touch~ An orange after it has fallen into
1766 8, 35 | man overcomes a sage in an oratorical~contest, it is no wonder,
1767 Intro, 3 | in a style acceptable to~orators and instructive to letter-writers.
1768 1, Story2 | were~revolving in their orbits and looking about. All the
1769 7, Story20| the stomach and the sexual organs are twins, that is to say,
1770 2, Story47| prattler~who neglects his orisons, is luxurious, sensual,
1771 6, Story2 | testicles are a sufficient ornament.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1772 8, 1 | The right~hand is fully ornamented by its own rectitude.'~ ~ ~
1773 Intro, 4 | the latter they look like~ostentation and in the former they are
1774 Intro, 1 | have~not known thee as thou oughtest to be known.~ ~ If someone
1775 1, Story13| dervish, who was sleeping outside in the cold, then said:~ ~ '
1776 8, 35 | and if an ignorant man overcomes a sage in an oratorical~
1777 6, Story3 | granted him this son. I overheard the boy~whispering to his
1778 8, 44 | scholar is not meekly to overlook the folly of a common person~
1779 3, Story28| A swarm of gnats will overpower an elephant~ Despite of
1780 3, Story28| several men but was at~last overpowered, struck and wounded:~ ~ ~
1781 3, Story4 | not to eat until appetite overpowers them and when some~of it
1782 3, Story20| When a sultan such as thou overshadowed his head.'~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1783 2, Story23| Allah knows my secret and my overt concerns.~ ~ ~ The door
1784 Intro, 3 | sleep,~ Wilt thou perhaps overtake them in these five days?~
1785 6, Story6 | her son~ When she saw him overthrow a tiger, and elephant-bodied:~ '
1786 2, Story28| a world of distress has overwhelmed me.'~ ~ ~ If I have no wealth
1787 3, Story14| was an hermaphrodite. I owe it to my friends~not to
1788 3, Story10| dealer to whom Sufis were owing some money asked them for
1789 3, Story20| accompanied the king a few~paces at the departure he was
1790 1, Story7 | degree that he could not be~pacified by kindness, so that at
1791 3, Story9 | bowels are full and the belly pains~ There is no use in all
1792 7, Story11| because the form may be painted~ In halls with vermilion
1793 6, Story1 | in adorning his hall with paintings~ Whilst the very foundation
1794 2, Story6 | who showest virtues on the palms of the hand~ But concealest
1795 5, Story2 | water and make bricks.~ A pampered slave will strike with the
1796 8, 8 | Purchase not conceit from a~panegyrist. The one has laid out a
1797 7, Story20| revealed word~the Pleasures of paradise-They shall have a certain provision
1798 7, Story20| have a certain provision in~paradise-to inform thee that those who
1799 3, Story17| on thinking they might~be parched grain nor the bitterness
1800 1, Story4 | inclination for Islam but his~parents make him a Jew, a Christian
1801 7, Story20| not become aware of the parsimony of~wealthy men except by
1802 4, Story6 | again~ Because sweets, once partaken of, suffice.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1803 1, Story27| something new. He had a particular affection for the beauty
1804 8, Maxim7 | wealth and make thee his partner.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1805 2, Story18| was lethal so that when he partook of it~he died.~ ~ ~ Who
1806 2, Story26| lament on the trees, the partridges on the mountains, the frogs
1807 3, Story28| people drinking water for a pashizi but possessing none he asked~
1808 3, Story25| a millipede and~a pious passer-by exclaimed: 'Praised be Allah!
1809 8, 66 | Who panders to his passions will not cultivate accomplishments
1810 2, Story5 | thou not how one ox of the pasturage~ Defiles all oxen of the
1811 8, 79 | three aces turn up.~ ~ ~ The pasture is a thousand times more
1812 3, Story28| abroad from his own town~ The patcher of clothes meets with no
1813 1, Story34| fellow insulted a man~ Who patiently bore it saying: 'O hopeful
1814 Intro, 4 | poor, asylum of strangers, patron of learned men, lover of
1815 2, Story9 | meditation and said after~a long pause: 'Hast thou not heard that
1816 Intro, 3 | its ground seemed to be paved with small glass~beads whilst,
1817 7, Story18| epitaph is elegant. The~pavement is of marble, tesselated
1818 3, Story28| persons are like the broken paw of a~lion?'~ ~ ~ How well
1819 1, Story14| and my saddle-cloth was pawned. A sultan who grudges money
1820 3, Story28| passage. The youth's hands of~payment being tied, he opened the
1821 8, 2 | and distressed.~ If a man pays not his tax of his own accord~
1822 2, Story34| near his head with a fan of~peacocks' feathers. He expressed
1823 2, Story3 | bah with~his face on the pebbles and saying: 'O lord, pardon
1824 1, Story32| impostor arranged his hair in a peculiar fashion, pretended to be~
1825 6, Story2 | of her husband~ Something pendant like the nether lip of a
1826 2, Story34| without turquoise-ring or pendants.~ ~ ~ A dervish of good
1827 1, Story16| advice of people cannot penetrate into thy ear?~ ~ Again,
1828 Intro, 1 | his boundless mercy have penetrated to every spot,~and the banquet
1829 1, Story3 | he had the shrewdness~and penetration to guess the meaning and
1830 2, Story23| spurious.~ ~ ~ By apology and penitence one may be saved from the
1831 8, 11 | Jew said: 'I swear by the Pentateuch~ That if my oath is false,
1832 5, Story20| confusion is yet~burning low, perchance extinguish it with the water
1833 7, Story20| houses and their heels~were perforated. It is also possible that
1834 Intro, 3 | life I had squandered and perforating the stony~mansion of my
1835 7, Story20| doing good who art able~ To perform only the prayer-flections
1836 Intro, 4 | duties are more suitably performed in their absence~than in
1837 8, 3 | friendship, and thereon performs acts of friendship which
1838 8, 38 | scholar is silent like the perfumer's casket but displays~accomplishments,
1839 6, Story1 | although~a malady may be perilous it does not imply a full
1840 Intro, 3 | roses of the garden are perishable and the season passes~away',
1841 6, Story1 | reliance is to be placed on its permanence and although~a malady may
1842 Intro, 1 | ashamed.~ ~ Those who attend permanently at the temple of his glory
1843 7, Story3 | and said: 'Thou~dost not permit thyself to indulge in so
1844 5, Story20| such a wickedness had been perpetrated and he was asked what~he
1845 1, Story5 | good fortune of~my lord be perpetual.'~ ~ I may so act as not
1846 1, Story11| subjects,~ How long wilt thou persevere in this?~ Of what use is
1847 3, Story7 | who was~abstemious merely persevered in his habit and remained
1848 1, Story24| The good opinion of high personages is more~than their servant'
1849 Intro, 3 | had fallen,~ Resembling perspiration on an angry sweetheart's
1850 8, 32 | old~men till they begin to perspire, but qalandars till no room
1851 2, Story14| Thy intercession cannot persuade me to neglect~the provision
1852 1, Story24| contents of which were found on~perusal to be as follows: 'The good
1853 1, Story4 | child the rebellious and perverse temper of that band has
1854 Intro, 5 | of conversation to speak petulantly, I could produce only a
1855 2, Story11| of the world of form, the physical,~to the world of meaning,
1856 1, Story21| to please thy friends, pick out his brains.~ ~ ~
1857 3, Story23| except the smell.~ The fowl picked up the crumbs after his
1858 5, Story10| up my~skirt from him and, picking up the pieces of the chess-game
1859 7, Story11| difference between him and a picture on the wall?~ It is no virtue
1860 Intro, 3 | sovereign,~ It will be a Chinese picture-gallery or design of the Arzank,~
1861 8, Admon4 | foe because an arrow may pierce.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1862 3, Story28| times against his aim.~ A pigeon destined not to see its
1863 Intro, 1 | of the sea has he whose pilot is Noah?~ ~ He attained
1864 5, Story19| thou knewest what is in a pining heart~ ~ ~ Who are healthy
1865 7, Story7 | Story 7~ ~ ~ I heard a pir-instructor say to his murid: 'The mind
1866 2, Story18| to thee all marrow like a pistachio~ Was but skin upon skin
1867 3, Story28| solitude.~ Wherever he goes he pitches a tent and makes a sleeping
1868 5, Story4 | considered his position, pitied his state, gave him~advice
1869 2, Story34| wonderful beauty and~graceful placidity:~ ~ ~ People around him
1870 1, Story40| ditch. One of the veziers, placing the face of~intercession
1871 7, Story20| has no sense, intention, plan or opinion,~ The gatekeeper
1872 3, Story28| Is not successful in his plans.~ Sometimes it happens that
1873 7, Story3 | to grow up as~a beautiful plant-more diligently than the sons
1874 Intro, 3 | according to his old custom with~playful gladness, and spread out
1875 1, Story23| with thy approbation.~ What plea can the slave advance? The
1876 3, Story3 | die of inanition than to plead for one's necessities~before
1877 1, Story40| intercession upon the ground, pleaded that there was no guilt
1878 3, Story28| scholar, who is for the pleasantness of his speech,~the power
1879 End | exhilarant and mixed with~pleasantry, shortsighted persons have
1880 1, Story7 | thou full man, barley-bread pleases thee not.~ She is my sweetheart
1881 2, Story20| time of departure when thou pleasest.~ ~ ~ When that harper began
1882 5, Story17| are there.~ When clay is plentiful, elephants will stumble.'~ ~ ~
1883 3, Story16| The heavenly father has plenty of honey but the son has~
1884 5, Story20| that enemies have devised a plot against him, I give no~credit
1885 8, 22 | but does not use him to plough or to sow seed.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1886 5, Story20| to the tall man: "Do not pluck the fruit",~ For he who
1887 5, Story10| grow.~ ~ ~ Whether thou pluckest out thy beard or not~ This
1888 1, Story8 | becomes desperate~ How he plucks out with his claws the eyes
1889 3, Story21| We replied: 'We shall plug therewith the privy holes."~ ~ ~
1890 7, Story20| themselves~abashed.~ ~ ~ Plunging the fist into the blood
1891 1, Story10| The dervish and the plutocrat are slaves on the floor
1892 7, Story20| Consider him to be the podex of an ass, though he may
1893 4, Story10| Story 10~ ~ ~ A poet went to an amir of robbers
1894 6, Story1 | Persian, whereon most of them pointed to me. I~asked him what
1895 8, 4 | to become chaste, and an~policeman not to commit oppression
1896 5, Story17| he came running to me and politely expressed~his regret that
1897 7, Story20| Mostly empty handed persons pollute the skirt of modesty by~
1898 5, Story20| is high and must not be polluted by a base crime. The companion~
1899 2, Story5 | rose-water~ A dog falling into it pollutes the whole.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1900 7, Story11| years; secondly nocturnal pollutions; and~thirdly, sprouting
1901 2, Story34| And branches with pomegranates upon them:~ Fire suspended
1902 3, Story20| of the sultan's power and pomp~ By accepting the hospitality
1903 8, 63 | said that~whoever does not ponder his question will be grieved
1904 5, Story16| from the darkness of the porch of a house a~light shone
1905 5, Story4 | in a dangerous locality, portending~destruction and no chance
1906 1, Story1 | inscription was upon the portico of the hall of~Feridun:~ ~
1907 5, Story4 | thou recitest the seven portions of the lesson by heart,~
1908 5, Story13| Upon which they paint thy portrait.~ If thy place were in paradise~
1909 Intro, 3 | these contents because a Pose-garden is not a place of~ displeasure.~
1910 8, Maxim2 | knowledge does the silly beast posses~ Whether it is carrying
1911 1, Story26| his wood and burnt all he possessed-transferring him from~his soft bed to
1912 3, Story28| water for a pashizi but possessing none he asked~for a coin
1913 6, Story2 | In short, there being no possibility of harmony, a separation
1914 1, Story33| father.~ In order to boil the pot of well-wishers~ Burn even
1915 2, Story17| subjects nor the slave of a potentate.~ Grief for the present,
1916 6, Story1 | a rival prostrate like a potsherd.~ A gentleman is engaged
1917 3, Story17| adorned with pearls or~ potsherds.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1918 8, 1 | nor hopes~for gold.~ ~ ~ Pour either gold at the feet
1919 5, Story16| into which sugar~had been poured and essence of roses mixed.
1920 2, Story28| happiness.~ If a rich man pours gold into thy lap~ Care
1921 Intro, 2 | and by the exertions of~practical scholars.~ ~ Knowest thou
1922 8, 6 | other knowledge and not practised it.~ ~ ~ No one sees an
1923 8, Maxim2 | the other learnt~without practising what he had learnt.~ ~ ~
1924 2, Story27| the a'bid, which began to prance, throwing him and~running
1925 Intro, 3 | to~indulge in senseless prattle:~ ~ To sit in a corner,
1926 2, Story47| elegant robe, whereas a prattler~who neglects his orisons,
1927 7, Story20| able~ To perform only the prayer-flections and these with a hundred~
1928 8, 15 | Lend nothing to a prayerless man~ Although his mouth
1929 2, Story39| corn.~ A scholar who only preaches and nothing more~ Will not
1930 8, 71 | similes of~those who have preceded them, before those who follow
1931 3, Story28| although food is~distributed by predestination the acquisition of it depends
1932 1, Story16| He replied: 'As thou~hast predicted, some persons envied me
1933 Intro, 3 | The more so as its august preface is dedicated~ To Sa'd Abu
1934 1, Story35| is certain. Moreover, I preferred to save this one because,~
1935 Intro, 5 | IN SERVICE AND CAUSE FOR PREFERRING SOLITUDE~ ~ My negligence
1936 7, Story10| this calamity.'~ ~ ~ If pregnant women, O man of intellect,~
1937 2, Story42| girls.~ I have fallen into prentice hands.~ I travel with foot
1938 8, 6 | else thou wilt only be preparing~thy own destruction.~ ~ ~
1939 5, Story4 | that the physician should prescribe patience,~ Whereas this
1940 1, Story16| motive, I paid a visit to the President of the State~Council and,
1941 Intro, 2 | of time,~ As long as one presides over it like thee, the shadow
1942 2, Story47| does not sit at the door of pretence away from people~ To fight
1943 Intro, 1 | and found no voice.~ These pretenders are ignorantly in search
1944 2, Story5 | water-pot of a~companion, pretending to go for an ablution, departed
1945 Intro, 5 | Who lifts up his neck with pretentions,~ Foes hasten to him from
1946 6, Story2 | onion from the mouth of a pretty face~ Is indeed better than
1947 Intro, 3 | intention of returning had prevailed~over the opinion of tarrying,
1948 Intro, 3 | one of these four becomes prevalent,~ Sweet life must abandon
1949 7, Story5 | will~repent.' The youth was prevented by the delights of the flute
1950 1, Story4 | boy and had expelled his~previous ignorance from his nature.
1951 5, Story20| short, one night he obtained privacy but during that night the~
1952 6, Story2 | girl, was sitting~with her privately in an apartment adorned
1953 3, Story21| shall plug therewith the privy holes."~ ~ ~ I heard that
1954 3, Story11| medicine which he~would probably not refuse to give if asked
1955 1, Story1 | uttered because the former proceeded from~a conciliatory disposition
1956 5, Story3 | been overcome by his base proclivity. He~meditated a while and
1957 3, Story19| barefooted and~unable to procure slippers. But when I entered
1958 1, Story13| Drive away this impudent and prodigal mendicant~who has in so
1959 2, Story37| his famished condition,~produced a table with bread but as
1960 Intro, 2 | surface of the~earth, the products of his friendly pen which
1961 8, Maxim8 | Maxim 8~ ~ ~ A weak foe, who professes submission and shows friendship,
1962 1, Story31| free from blame.'~ ~ To proffer an opinion contrary to the
1963 1, Story16| padshahs is like a sea voyage,~profitable and dangerous, so that thou
1964 2, Story5 | from their society. I have profited by what thou~hast narrated
1965 2, Story23| spread out my faults.~ What profiteth a closed door? The Omniscient~
1966 8, Maxim4 | himself.~ ~ ~ Who has spent a profitless life~ Bought nothing and
1967 5, Story17| of each other.~ ~ ~ What profits it to kiss a friend's face~
1968 Intro, 5 | pious men~and the centre of profound scholars? If I were to be
1969 7, Story20| said:~'Thou hast been so profuse in this panegyric of wealthy
1970 2, Story5 | dark-hearted wretch had already progressed a considerable distance.
1971 1, Story41| Throne and luck, command and prohibition, taking and giving.~ Injure
1972 Intro, 2 | favour the Musalmans with the prolongation of his life, and~with an
1973 2, Story6 | when he rose for prayers he prolonged them~more than was his wont
1974 Intro, 1 | inhalation of the breath prolongs life and every expiration
1975 1, Story16| approbation so that he was promoted to a higher office. In this
1976 3, Story14| fish or ant~ Whose wailings prompted by distress had not reached
1977 4, Story3 | thou hast spoken bring the proof.~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1978 Intro, 5 | better unless thou speakest properly.~ ~ How then could I venture
1979 7, Story19| because whatever enemy thou propitiatest~becomes thy friend, whereas
1980 8, 4 | 80~ ~ ~ What can an old prostitute do but vow to become chaste,
1981 6, Story1 | together~ On beholding a rival prostrate like a potsherd.~ A gentleman
1982 Intro, 2 | O Allah, give security protect his son.~ ~ Verily the world
1983 2, Story34| ringlets of mistresses~ Protected from the inclemency of mid-winter~
1984 1, Story28| also that kings exist for protecting subjects~and subjects not
1985 Intro, 2 | vice-gerent of Solomon, protector of the followers~of the
1986 8, 68 | from the royal throne,~and protects the other in the belly of
1987 7, Story20| When the qazi had thus far protracted his remarks and had caused
1988 8, 3 | with five cucumbers~ Will prove that ten melon-fields are
1989 8, 71 | them can use the~event as a proverb, like thieves who shorten
1990 8, 28 | weak man trying to show his prowess off against a strong one~
1991 7, Story20| beauteous stature he should prowl~around prohibited things
1992 2, Story49| the exuberant vines~ When pruned by the vintner will yield
1993 5, Story9 | veil of concealment into publicity, he~endured abundant persecution
1994 8, 6 | avaricious man~ Without publishing his defect~ But if a liberal
1995 7, Story11| sprouting of hair on the pudenda; but in reality there is~
1996 6, Story5 | thou art old abstain from puerility.~ Leave play and jokes to
1997 7, Story12| faces, giving full vent to pugnacity and contention.~I saw a
1998 Intro, 4 | of persons endowed with pulchritude, unless adorned~with the
1999 1, Story35| Whilst however the sailor was pulling out one, the other~perished.
2000 Intro, 3 | bulbuls were singing on the pulpits of branches.~ Upon the roses
2001 8, 57 | That he should feel thy pulse who knows thy nature.~ Ask
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