<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=464296" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Trial Of Strength</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hard, narrow and straight is the route, <br>Those who are un-backed fall headlong soon, <br>The devotees face slippery spot at each step, <br>And go through a trial of strength.<br>A thing slight may culminate taking up, <br>Or throw down into the dark bottom of abyss, <br>Where from if you are not brittle hearted, <br>Start climbing afresh, with zeal and zest, <br>Submitting your wills before the Mighty Consent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A journey long of the distant land allowed me<br>To have a pause in front of a mosque, <br>Very small like a turned half globe, <br>With a minaret in centre of the top.<br>Divided was its roundity with raised streaks, <br>As they do divide the soft crust of a melon, <br>Some invisible masters had made a show of craft, <br>The trailing branches of roses were laden<br>With the flowers ever fresh and leaves ever green.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then I went in and saw the saints four, <br>Discussing the errors, I had committed<br>Since I became a traveller of the arduous route.<br>Came down then I, in the basement I found<br>The damsels four, standing at the door, <br>In the dresses red, yellow, pink and blue, <br>And I was to pass through them unheeded.<br>When they attracted gesturing with the moves of eyes, <br>I engrossed in thoughts carnal, <br>Their sweet beauty cast irresistible spell, <br>And I forgot the purpose of the distant sojourn, <br>Ah! Lust rode on the back defeated me again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Muhammad+Shanazar">Muhammad Shanazar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=464296" data-title="A Trial Of Strength de Muhammad Shanazar" data-description="Hard, narrow and straight is the route, Those who are un-backed fall headlong soon, The devotees face slippery spot at each step, And go through a trial of strength. A thing slight may culminate taking up, Or throw down into the dark bottom of..."></div> </div> </div>

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