• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to secondary sidebar
  • Contact
  • disclaimer
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
Urdu Poet

Urdu Poet

Read the Classic Poetry

  • Ghazal
  • Nazm
  • Qita
  • Short Stories
You are here: Home / Hikaayat / Story 17- The Morals Of dervishes – Gulistaan-e-Sa.Adii

Story 17- The Morals Of dervishes – Gulistaan-e-Sa.Adii

Sheikh Saadi

A bareheaded and barefooted pedestrian who had arrived from Kufah with the Hejaz-caravan of pilgrims joined us, strutted about and recited:

‘I am neither riding a camel nor under a load like a camel.

I am neither a lord of subjects nor the slave of a potentate.

Grief for the present, or distress for the past, does not

trouble me.

I draw my breath in comfort and thus spend my life.’

A camel-rider shouted to him: ‘O dervish, where art thou going? Return, for thou wilt expire from hardships.’ He paid no attention but entered the desert and marched. When we reached the station at the palm-grove of Mahmud, the rich man was on the point of death and the dervish, approaching his pillow, said: ‘We have not expired from hardship but thou hast died on a dromedary.’

A man wept all night near the head of a patient.

When the day dawned he died and the patient revived.

Many a fleet charger had fallen dead

While a lame ass reached the station alive.

Often healthy persons were in the soil

Buried and the wounded did not die.

Filed Under: Hikaayat Tagged With: Sufi Poet

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Poet Type

  • Classic Poet
  • Sufi Poet
  • Top Rated Poet
  • Women Poets
  • Young Poets

Popular Ghazal

gulzar

Koi Atka Hua Hai Pal Shayad

Tumhein Jo Mere Gham-E-Dil Se Aagahi Ho Jae

Sharab-E-Ishq Se maKHmur Sab KHurd-O-Kalan Honge

ismail-merathi

duniya Ko Na Tu Qibla-E-Hajat Samajh

Gham Nairang Dikhata Hai Hasti Ki Jalwa-Numai Ka

Secondary Sidebar

Famous Poet

  • Adil Mansuri
  • Ahmad Faraz
  • Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
  • Akbar Allahabadi
  • Akhtar Shirani
  • Akhtar-ul-Iman
  • Ali Sardar Jafri
  • Allama Iqbal
  • Ameer Minai
  • Asrarul Haq Majaz
  • Bahadur Shah Zafar
  • Bashar Nawaz
  • Bashir Badr
  • Dagh Dehlvi
  • Etibar Sajid
  • Faiz Ahmad Faiz
  • Firaq Gorakhpuri
  • Hasrat Mohani
  • Jaun Eliya
  • Jigar Moradabadi
  • Kaifi Azmi
  • Khumar Barabankavi
  • Majrooh Sultanpuri
  • Meer Taqi Meer
  • Mirza Ghalib
  • Muneer Niyazi
  • Nasir Kazmi
  • Nida Fazli
  • Pirzada Qasim
  • Qateel Shifai
  • Sahir Ludhianvi
  • Saleem Kausar
  • Shakeel Badayuni
  • Shahryar
  • Waseem Barelvi
  • Zafar Iqbal

Copyright © 2023 ยท Urdu Poet