Sufi parable from Rumi Dervish knocked on the house to ask for a piece of bread.
“This is not a bakery,” said the owner.
“Maybe then there’s a piece of cartilage?”
- Does this look like a butcher shop?
- A little flour?..
-Can you hear the millstones?
- Water?..
- This is not a well!
Whatever the dervish asked, the man responded with stupid ridicule and refused to give anything. Finally, the dervish ran into the house, lifted his robe and sat down, as if he was about to relieve himself.
- Hey, hey!
- Quiet, you pathetic man. An abandoned place is perfect for relieving yourself, and since there is nothing living or means of life here, it needs fertilization.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru