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Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 10

One asked the man who had lost his son: ‘O noble and intelligent old man! As thou hast smelt the odour of his garment from Egypt Why hast thou not seen him in the well of Canaan? ’ He replied: ‘My state is that of leaping lightning. One moment it appears and at another vanishes. I am sometimes sitting in high heaven. Sometimes I cannot see the back of my foot. Were a dervish always to remain in that state He would not care for the two worlds. ’ THE GULISTAN OF SA'DI Translated by Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)