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Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 54

It is contrary to what is proper, and against the opinion of to partake of medicine by guess and to go after a caravan without seeing the road. The Imam Murshid Muhammad Ghazali, upon whom be the mercy of Allah, having been asked in what manner he had attained such a degree of knowledge, replied: ‘By not being ashamed to ask about things I did not know. ’ The hope of recovery is according to reason, That he should feel thy pulse who knows thy nature. Ask what thou knowest not; for the trouble of asking Will indicate to thee the way to the dignity of knowledge. THE GULISTAN OF SA'DI Translated by Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)