70. "Infer the existence of ignorance in anyone whom you see answering all that he is asked or giving expression to all that he witnesses or mentioning all that he knows."
The Judge. - He who has beheld anyone's ideal is his inexorable judge and as it were his bad conscience.
The human lot. - He who considers more deeply knows that, whatever his acts and judgements may be, he is always wrong.
"The scraps from the meal of the Emir are larger than the gifts of halwa from the merchant." - Timur Fazil
"If you want to be with the Teacher when he wants you to be apart from him, you must obey him or shun him. If you argue about it, you are worse than disobedient." - Halqavi
302. Preference for specific virtues. - We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total lack of absence in our opponent."
444. War. - Against war it can be said: it makes the victor stupid, the defeated malicious. In favour of war: through producing these two effects it barbarizes and therefore makes natural; it is the winter or hibernation time of culture, mankind emerges from it stronger for good and evil."
459. - Full of character. - A man appears full of character much more often because he always obeys his temperament than because he always obeys his principles.
516. - No one now dies of fundamental truths: there are too many antidotes to them.
531. - The life of one's enemy. - He who lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in seeing that his enemy stays alive.
220. "Do not attest to the validity of an inspiration (warid) whose fruit you know not. The purpose of rainclouds is not to give rain; their only purpose is to bring forth fruit."
227. "If you do not want to be dismissed, then do not take charge of a post that will not always be yours."
"A friendless man is like a left hand without a right." - Hebrew proverb
"Though I am different from you, We were born involved with one another." - Tao te Ching
"Kabeer, we are puppets of clay, but we take the name of mankind. We are guests here for only a few days, but we take up so much space."
"Kabeer, the world is a room filled with black soot; the blind fall into its trap. I am a sacrifice to those who are thrown in, and still escape."
"Kabeer, all the strings of the instrument I played are broken. What can the poor instrument do, when the player has departed as well."
"When she is a virgin, she is full of desire; but when she is married, then her troubles begin. Fareed, she has this one regret, that she cannot be a virgin again."
"First, the bride herself is weak, and then, her Husband Lord's Order is hard to bear. Milk does not return to the breast, it will not be collected again."
"Fareed, I was worried that my turban might become dirty. My thoughtless self did not realize that one day, dust will consume my head as well."
"Fareed, a stone will be your pillow, and the earth will be our bed. The worm shall eat into your flesh. Countless ages will pass, and you will still be lying on one side."
"Fareed, if on that day when my umbilical cord was cut, my throat had been cut instead, I would not have fallen into so many troubles, or undergone so many hardships."
SIFTING
O Pedant! Sift, all your life, the writings and the sayings of the Wise. But first of all learn one thing: you are using a sieve which lets through chaff and discards the nutrient, the wheat. - Shab-Parak
GIVE AND TAKE
The Chief takes less then he is given
And gives more than he has taken.
(Kitab-i-Amu Daria)
51. "No deed is more fruitful for the heart than the one you are not aware of and which is deemed paltry by you."
260. "Meditation (al-fikra) is the voyage of the heart in the domains of alterities (mayadin al-agdo naahyar)."
209. "That part of your life that has gone by is irreplaceable, and that which has arrived is priceless."
160, "Sometimes ostentation (ar-riya) penetrates you in such a way that no one notices it."
294
Copies. - We quite often encounter copies of significant men; as, as also in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.
311
Against the trusting. - People who give us their complete trust believe they have this acquired a right to ours. This is a false conclusion; gifts procure no rights.
303
Why we contradict. - We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it was expressed.
413
The shortsighted are in love. - Sometimes it requires only a strong pair of spectacles to cure the lover, and he who had the imagination to picture a face, a figure twenty years older, would perhaps pass through life very undisturbed.
496
Privilege of greatness. - It is the privilege of greatness to give great delights with meagre gifts.
564
In danger. - One is most in danger of being run over when one has just avoided a carriage.
568
Confession. - One forgets one's sins when one confesses them to another, but the other does not usually forget them.
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