“When Misfortune Strikes”, from Golestan by Saadi Shirazi
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Welcome back to Wisdom from the Golestan of Saadi.
Today’s story is about a merchant, who suffered a loss.
Saadi writes:
A merchant once suffered a great loss, a thousand dinars gone.
He said to his son,
“Tell no one of this misfortune.”
The son replied,
“Father, I’ll obey. …
“The Merchant and His Endless Journeys”, from Golestan by Saadi Shirazi
Welcome back to Wisdom from the Golestan of Saadi.
Today’s story is about a merchant, rich, restless, and endlessly planning for a future that never seems to come.
Saadi writes:
I once met a wealthy merchant who owned a hundred and fifty camels laden with goods, and forty servants …
“The Thief Among the Dervishes”, from Golestan by Saadi Shirazi
Welcome back to Wisdom from the Golestan of Saadi.
In this story, Saadi shares a journey, both literal and moral, about companionship, deception, and the importance of discernment.
Saadi writes:
A group of travelers had joined together in friendship, sharing the hardships and joys of the road.
I wished …
“Fear and Power”, from Golestan by Saadi Shirazi
Welcome back to Wisdom from the Golestan of Saadi.
Today’s story from Saadi is about kingship, and the dark alliance between fear and power.
Saadi writes:
They once asked Hormuz, the son of the great King Nushirvan,
“What fault did you find in your father’s ministers, that you had …
The Measure of Love: Attar’s Song of the Unhidden Heart
(Reflections on “کیست که از عشق تو پردهٔ او پاره نیست”, “Who is there whose veil has not been torn by love?”)
I. The Cry of the Unveiled Heart
کیست که از عشق تو پردهٔ او پاره نیست
وز قفس قالبش مرغ دل آواره نیست
Who is there …
Do Not Sleep Without the Beloved Tonight
🌙 بییار مخسب امشب | Do Not Sleep Without the Beloved Tonight
There are nights when the heart trembles with remembrance, when silence itself becomes music, and every breath whispers a single name.
In such nights, love is not a concept, nor an emotion, but a living presence, a fire …
The Playful Line: A Reflection on a Ghazal by Saeb Tabrizi
Few poets of the Persian world blend subtle reasoning and passionate mysticism as elegantly as Saeb Tabrizi. A master of the Indian style (سبک هندی), he often turns abstract ideas into shimmering, tangible images.
This ghazal, brief yet layered, is a dialogue between the mind and the …
The Mirror of the Cup: Reflections on a Ghazal by Hafez Shirazi
Among Hafez’s many love songs, few shimmer as brightly as this ghazal, a meditation on reflection, illusion, and the mystery of love. Each verse turns like a mirror, catching the light of beauty and showing us not the truth itself, but the thousand forms it takes in the dreaming heart. …