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Masnavi e Manavi : The Elephant in a Dark Room.
Book III. Story VI.Some Hindoos were exhibiting an elephant in a dark room, and many people collected to see it. But as the place was too dark to permit them to see the elephant, they all felt it with their hands, to gain an idea of what it was like.
Masnavi e Manavi :The Merchant and his Clever Parrot.
Book I. Story VII.The Merchant and his Clever Parrot. There was a certain merchant who kept a parrot in a cage. Being about to travel to Hindustan on business, he asked the parrot if he had any message to send to his kinsmen in that country, and the parrot desired him to tell […]
Masnavi e Manavi : The Pauper and the Prisoners.
Book II. STORY II.The Pauper and the Prisoners.A certain pauper obtained admittance to a prison, and annoyed the prisoners by eating up all their victuals and leaving them none.
Shams Tabrizi
Shams-i-Tabrīzī or Shams al-Din Mohammad (died ca.1248) was a Persian Muslim, who is credited as the spiritual instructor of Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi and is referenced with great reverence in Rumi’s poetic collection, in particular “Diwan-i Shams-i Tabrīzī” (The Works of Shams of Tabriz).
Masnavi e Manavi :The Disciple who blindly imitated his Shaikh
Book V. Story VI.The Disciple who blindly imitated his Shaikh. An ignorant youth entered an assembly of pious persons who were being addressed by a holy Shaikh. He saw the Shaikh weeping copiously, and in mere blind and senseless imitation he copied the Shaikh’s behavior, and wept as copiously himself, though he understood not […]
Masnavi e Manavi :The Deadly Mosque.
The Deadly MosqueBook III. Story XVIII.In the suburbs of a certain city there was a mosque in which none could sleep a night and live. Some said it was haunted by malevolent fairies; others, that it was under the baneful influence of a magic spell;
Masnavi e Manavi :The King and his Two Slaves.
Book 2. Story III. The King and his Two Slaves.A king purchased two slaves, one extremely handsome, and the other very ugly. He sent the first away to the bath, and in his absence questioned the other.
Masnavi e Manavi : The Three Fishes
Book 4.Story V. The Three Fishes This story, which is taken from the book of Kalila and Damnah,1 is as follows. There was in a secluded place a lake, which was fed by a running stream, and in this lake were three fishes, one very wise,
Masnavi e Manavi : The Sufi and the Qazi.
A sick man laboring under an incurable disease went to a physician for advice. The physician felt his pulse, and perceived that no treatment would cure him, and therefore told him to go away and do whatever he had a fancy for.