<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512247" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ch 07 On The Effects Of Education Story 16</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A pious man happened to pass near a rich fellow who had a slave and was just chastising him after having tied his feet and hands. He said: ‘My son, God the most high and glorious has given a creature like thyself into thy power and has bestowed upon thee superiority over him. Give thanks to the Almighty and do not indulge in so much violence towards the man because it is not meet that in the morn of resurrection he should be better than thyself and put thee to shame.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Be not much incensed against a slave. <br> Oppress him not, grieve not his heart. <br> Thou hast purchased him for ten dirhems <br> And hast not after all created him by thy power. <br> How long is this command, pride and power to last? <br> There is a Master more exalted than thou. <br> O thou owner of Arslan and of Aghosh, <br> Do not forget him who is thy commander. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is a tradition that the prince of the world, upon whom be the benediction of Allah and peace, has said: ‘It will occasion the greatest sorrow on the day of resurrection when a pious worshipper is conveyed to paradise and a lord of profligacy to hell.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Upon the slave subject to thy service <br> Vent not boundless anger but treat him gently <br> Because on the day of reckoning it will be a shame <br> To see the slave free and his owner in chains.</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=512247" data-title="Ch 07 On The Effects Of Education Story 16 de Sa di" data-description="A pious man happened to pass near a rich fellow who had a slave and was just chastising him after having tied his feet and hands. He said: ‘My son, God the most high and glorious has given a creature like thyself into thy power and has bestowed ..."></div> </div> </div>

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