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Ch 06 On Weakness And Old Age Story 03

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Ch 06 On Weakness And Old Age Story 03

I was in Diarbekr, the guest of an old man, who possessed abundant wealth and a beautiful son. One night he narrated to me that he had all his life no other son but this boy, telling me that in the locality people resorted to a certain tree in a valley to offer petitions and that he had during many nights prayed at the foot of the said tree, till the Almighty granted him this son. I overheard the boy whispering to his companion: ‘How good it would be if I knew where that tree is that I might pray for my father to die. ’ Moral: The gentleman is delighted that his son is intelligent and the boy complains that his father is a dotard. Years elapse without thy visiting The tomb of thy father. What good hast thou done to him To expect the same from thy son? THE GULISTAN OF SA'DI Translated by Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)