Let It Be That Of Qimaz
If you must cover yourself with dust.
then take dust from the greatest dunes.
If you must be an imitator, then imitate the Koran. This is like that well-known sage. He said: There was a sage who had no equal in the science of medicine and experimentation in the inhabited quarter. He had servants a hair of whose heads was worth a hundred like him. He had an ugly appearance and a tremendously repulsive form, such that few cities had anyone more repulsive in visage. His head and face were so twisted over that nothing appeared - not mouth, not eyes. He came down with an illness that in fact had no cure except eating human filth, and then putting him into a rug and rolling him around. Many physicians were sitting around him, and they were looking at each other, but they couldn’t speak. He understood, and he know, because he was the master of all of them. He said, “I know, I know. I have to eat such-and-such. Well since I must eat it, let it be that of Qimaz,” whom he liked very much.
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"Me & Rumi" William C. Chittick - The Profit and Loss of Study
then take dust from the greatest dunes.
If you must be an imitator, then imitate the Koran. This is like that well-known sage. He said: There was a sage who had no equal in the science of medicine and experimentation in the inhabited quarter. He had servants a hair of whose heads was worth a hundred like him. He had an ugly appearance and a tremendously repulsive form, such that few cities had anyone more repulsive in visage. His head and face were so twisted over that nothing appeared - not mouth, not eyes. He came down with an illness that in fact had no cure except eating human filth, and then putting him into a rug and rolling him around. Many physicians were sitting around him, and they were looking at each other, but they couldn’t speak. He understood, and he know, because he was the master of all of them. He said, “I know, I know. I have to eat such-and-such. Well since I must eat it, let it be that of Qimaz,” whom he liked very much.
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"Me & Rumi" William C. Chittick - The Profit and Loss of Study
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