Remarks on sincerity and its blessing, and on hypocrisy and its calamity گفتار اندر اخلاص و برکت آن و ریا و آفت آن
Bustan Saadi بوستان سعدی Devotion is good when its object is plain, What good, else, can come from a skin without brain? عبادت به اخلاص نیت نکوست وگرنه چه آید ز بی مغز پوست؟ What’s the belt of the gueber? the tattered, old cloak? When you wear them to tickle the fancies of folk چه […]
Story of the tyrant hajaj حکایت حجاج ستمگر
Bustan Saadi بوستان سعدی ” Hajaj” some one said, “is a tyrant well known; His heart is as hard as a piece of black stone; کسی گفت حجاج خونخوارهای است دلش همچو سنگ سیه پارهای است Of the sighs and complaints of mankind, without dread; Oh God, bring the people’s revenge on his head! “ […]