ظالمی، هیزم فقیران را به قیمت بسیار ارزان میخریدو آن را به قیمت بسیار گران به ثروتمندان میفروخت.
روزی،پیرمرد دانایی او را نصیححت کرد و گفت:« به مردم ظلم مکن که نفرین آنها تو را نابود خواهد کرد...»
ظالم از نصیحت پیرمرد دانا رنجید و توجهی نکرد و به ظلم خود ادامه داد.
تا اینکه یک شب، آتش در انبار هیزمش افتاد و سایر دارائیش نیز سوخت. اتفاقا هنگام آتش سوزی، همان پیرمرد دانا از آنجا میگذشت و ظالم را دید که به دوستان خود میگفت:« نمیدانم این آتش از کجا در خانه من افتاد؟»
پیرمرد دانا گفت:« از دل فقیران و آه درویشان!»
معلم،ح.(1384)، حکایت نامه،تهران، کانون پرورش فکری کودکان و نوجوانان.
برگرفته شده از گلستان سعدی.
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It is narrated that a tyrant who purchased wood from dervishes
forcibly gave it away to rich -people gratuitously. A pious man
passing near said:
'Thou art a snake, stingest whom thou beholdest,
Or an owl; wherever thou sittest thou destroyest.
Although thy oppression may pass among us
It cannot pass with the Lord who knows all secrets.
Oppress not the denizens of the earth
That their supplications may not pass to heaven.'
The tyrant, being displeased with these words, got angry and took no
notice of him until one night, when fire from the kitchen fell into
the store of his wood and burnt all he possessed-transferring him from
his soft bed to a hot mound of ashes-the same pious man happened again
to pass and to hear him saying to his friends: 'I do not know whence
this fire has fallen into my house.' replied: 'From the smoke of the
hearts of dervishes.'
Beware of the smoke of internal wounds
Because at last an internal wound will break out.
Forbear to uproot one heart as long as thou canst
Because one sigh may uproot a world.
Upon the diadem of Kaikhosru the following piece was inscribed:
For how many years and long lives
Will the people walk over my head on the ground?
As from hand to hand the kingdom came to us
So it will also go to other hands.
Translated by Sir Edwin Arnold
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