<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512130" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 17</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A bareheaded and barefooted pedestrian who had arrived from Kufah with the Hejaz-caravan of pilgrims joined us, strutted about and recited:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ‘I am neither riding a camel nor under a load like a camel. <br> I am neither a lord of subjects nor the slave of a potentate. <br> Grief for the present, or distress for the past, does not trouble me. <br> I draw my breath in comfort and thus spend my life.’ </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A camel-rider shouted to him: ‘O dervish, where art thou going? Return, for thou wilt expire from hardships.’ He paid no attention but entered the desert and marched. When we reached the station at the palm-grove of Mahmud, the rich man was on the point of death and the dervish, approaching his pillow, said: ‘We have not expired from hardship but thou hast died on a dromedary.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> A man wept all night near the head of a patient. <br> When the day dawned he died and the patient revived. <br> Many a fleet charger had fallen dead <br> While a lame ass reached the station alive. <br> Often healthy persons were in the soil <br> Buried and the wounded did not die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sa+di">Sa di</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=512130" data-title="Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 17 de Sa di" data-description="A bareheaded and barefooted pedestrian who had arrived from Kufah with the Hejaz-caravan of pilgrims joined us, strutted about and recited: ‘I am neither riding a camel nor under a load like a camel. I am neither a lord of subjects nor the s..."></div> </div> </div>

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