THE SPIRITUAL COUPLETS OF MAULANA JALALU-‘D-DlN MUHAMMAD RUMI STORY III. Book I The Jewish King, his Vazir, and the Christians A certain Jewish king used to persecute the Christians, desiring to exterminate their faith.
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Masnavi e Manavi : The Hindu Slave who loved his Master’s Daughter.
Book VI. STORY I. The Hindu Slave who loved his Master’s Daughter. A certain man had a Hindu slave, whom he had brought up along with his children, one of whom was a daughter.
Masnavi e Manavi : ‘Ali’s Forbearance
Book I STORY XVI. ‘Ali’s Forbearance. ‘Ali, the “Lion of God,” was once engaged in conflict with a Magian chief, and in the midst of the struggle the Magian spat in his face. ‘Ali, instead of taking vengeance on him, at once dropped his sword, to the Magian’s great astonishment.
Masnavi e Manavi : The Youth who wrote a letter of complaint about his rations to the King.
Book IV. STORY III. The Youth who wrote a letter of complaint about his rations to the King. A certain youth in the service of a great king was dissatisfied with his rations, so he went to the cook and reproached him with dishonoring his master by his stinginess. The youth would not […]
Masnavi e Manavi : The Arab and his Wife.
Book 1 STORY IX. An Arab lived with his wife in the desert in extreme poverty, so that they became a reproach to their neighbours. The wife at last lost patience, and began to abuse her husband, and to urge him to improve their condition.
Masnavi e Manavi : The Muslim who tried to convert a Magian
Book Five STORY XI. The Muslim who tried to convert a Magian. A Muslim (Mosalman) pressed a Magian to embrace the true faith.
Masnavi e Manavi : The Lion and the Beasts.
Book I.STORY V. In the book of Kalila and Damna a story is told of a lion who held all the beasts of the neighborhood in subjection, and was in the habit of making constant raids upon them, to take and kill such of them as he required for his daily food.
Masnavi e Manavi : The Falcon and the Owls
Book II.STORY IV.The Falcon and the OwlsA certain falcon lost his way, and found himself in the waste places inhabited by owls. The owls suspected that he had come to seize their nests, and all surrounded him to make an end of him.
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 Drunken Turkish Amir and the Minstrel.
Book 6.Story III.The Drunken Turkish Amir and the Minstrel. Then follow exhortations to undergo “the pains of negation,” as they are called in the Gulshan i Raz, i.e., even as the great saint and poet Faridu-‘d-Din ‘Attar cast away his drugs, to cast one’s own will,