Story of a saint mistaken for a jew حکایت جهود
Story of a Saint Mistaken for a Jew (حکایت جهود) is from Chapter VIII, On Thanks (در شکر بر عافیت) of Saadi’s Bustan (بوستان, “The Orchard”), written in 1257. The Persian verses are given with a rhymed English translation, couplet by couplet.
Bustan Saadi بوستان سعدی
| A man passed a person possessing God’s grace, And thought him a Jew, by the cut of his face. | یکی کرد بر پارسایی گذر به صورت جهود آمدش در نظر |
| On the back of his neck, he inflicted a whack; The holy man gave him the shirt from his back! | قفایی فرو کوفت بر گردنش ببخشید درویش پیراهنش |
| Ashamed, he exclaimed, ” What I’ve done is amiss! Forgive me! what time for a favour is this”? | خجل گفت کانچ از من آمد خطاست ببخشای بر من، چه جای عطاست؟ |
| “I brood not on evil,” he, thankfully, said, “But I am not the man who came into your head “. | به شکرانه گفتا به سر بیستم که آنم که پنداشتی نیستم |
| A nature refined and a form free from pride, Surpass a good name and a wicked inside. The prowling night-robber seems better to me, Than the profligate wretch you in pious garb see. |
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