Story 18

  A hermit, having been invited by a padshah, concluded that if he

were to take some medicine to make himself weak he might perhaps

enhance the opinion of the padshah regarding his merits. But it is

related that the medicine was lethal so that when he partook of it

he died.

        Who appeared to thee all marrow like a pistachio

        Was but skin upon skin like an onion.

        Devotees with their face towards the world

        Say their prayers with their back to the Qiblah.

        When a worshipper calls upon his God,

        He must know no one besides God.