One year, Muhammad Khwarazmshah, may God have mercy on him, made peace with Khotan for an expediency. I entered the Jami Mosque of Kashgar and saw a boy, a grammarian, of utmost moderation and ultimate beauty, as they say in his examples:

Your teacher taught you nothing but playfulness and charm

Taught you cruelty, coquetry, reproach, and tyranny.

I have not seen a person with such form, character, stature, and manner

Unless he learned this way from a fairy.

He had Zamakhshari's Introduction to Grammar in his hand and was reading: 'Zayd hit Amr, and the transgressor was Amr.' I said: O boy, Khwarazm and Khotan have made peace, and Zayd and Amr still have enmity? He laughed and asked my birthplace, I said: The land of Shiraz. He said: What do you have of Saadi's words? I said:

I am afflicted with a grammarian who attacks angrily

Against me like Zayd in confrontation with Amr.

Dragging his garment, he does not raise his head

And does raising (the noun) agree with a factor of genitive case?

He pondered for a moment and said: Most of his poems in this field are in Persian, if you say it in Persian it will be closer to understanding. Speak to people according to their understanding. I said:

Since your nature desired grammar

It erased the image of patience from our hearts.

O heart of lovers, captured in your snare

We are preoccupied with you, and you with Amr and Zayd.

In the morning, when the intention to travel was decided, they had told him that so-and-so is Saadi. He came running and showed kindness and regretted why I had not said I was him for so long so that he could have dedicated himself to serving great men. I said: