A scholar said to his father: “None of these eloquent and charming words of the speakers affect me, because I do not see their actions matching their words.”
They teach people to renounce the world
While they themselves hoard silver and grain
A scholar who only speaks
Whatever he says, no one takes to heart
A true scholar is one who does not do wrong
Not one who tells others and does not act himself
“Do you enjoin righteousness upon people and forget yourselves?”
A scholar who indulges in pleasure and luxury
Is lost himself, how can he guide others?
The father said: “O son! Do not turn away from the guidance of advisors and do not accuse scholars of misguidance based on mere imagination, and do not deprive yourself of the benefits of knowledge by seeking an infallible scholar, like a blind man who fell into a pit one night and said: ‘Finally, one of the Muslims, light a lamp for me.’ A woman heard him and said: ‘You who cannot see the lamp, what will you see by the lamp?’ Similarly, a sermon is like a cloth merchant’s shop; there, you do not get goods without payment, and here, you do not gain happiness without devotion.”
Listen to the words of the scholar with the ear of the soul
Even if his actions do not match his words
What the claimant says is false:
“How can a sleeper awaken another sleeper?”
A man should take advice to heart
Even if it is written on a wall
A wise man came to the school from the monastery
He broke the covenant of companionship with the people of the path
I asked: "What is the difference between a scholar and a worshipper
That you chose this group over that?"
He said: "One saves his own blanket from the waves
And the other strives to save the drowning."
