United States or Western Sahara ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
They asked a wise man which was preferable, munificence or courage? He answered, "Whoever has munificence has no need of courage." On the tombstone of Bahram-gor was inscribed: "The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power. Hatim Tayi remains not, yet will his exalted name live renowned for generosity to all eternity.
And had Hatim Tayi, who dwelt in the desert, come to live in a city, he would have been overwhelmed with the importunities of mendicants, and they would have torn the clothes from his back: Look not towards me, lest thou should draw the eyes of others, for at the mendicant's hand no good can be expected." He said: "I pity their condition." I replied: "Not so; but you envy them their property."
We were much pleased and amused at his quaint expressions of admiration for a mutual friend in New York at whose hospitable house we had all received cordial entertainment. He said: "The great Hindoo, Hatim Tayi, was nothing by the side of such hospitality as hers. Hatim Tayi would soon lose his reputation." His appreciation of the poems of H. H. was often expressed.
They asked Hatim Tayi: "Have you ever met, or heard of, a person of a more independent spirit than yourself?" He answered: "Yes, one day I had made a sacrifice of forty camels, and invited the chief of every Arab tribe to a feast. Then I repaired to the border of the desert, where I met a wood-cutter, who had tied up his fagot to carry it into the city.
I said, Why do you not go to the feast of Hatim, where a crowd have assembled round his carpet? He replied: 'Whoever can eat the bread of his own industry will not lay himself under obligation to Hatim Tayi. And in him I met my superior in spirit and independence." The Prophet Moses, on whom be peace, saw a dervish who had buried his body, in his want of clothes to cover it, in the sand.
Word Of The Day