{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/ssw/ssw26.htm","path":"isl/ssw/ssw26.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/ssw/ssw26.htm","text":"Sadi's Scroll of Wisdom, by Arthur N. Wollaston, [1906]\nRegard this globe, resplendent like gold,\n The roof of which is firm without pillars!\n Regard the curtain of the revolving sphere! \n Regard its glittering lamps!\u00a01\n \n One is a shepherd, and another a sovereign;\n One is a suppliant for justice, another covets a throne;\n One is happy, and another miserable;\n One is prosperous, and another unfortunate;\n One is a payer of taxes, and another sits on a throne;\n One is exalted, and another debased;\n One sitteth on a mat, and another upon a throne;\n One is in rags, and another is clad in silk;\n One hath no bread, and another revels in wealth; p. 58\n One is disappointed, and another prosperous;\n One is afflicted, and another rolleth in riches;\n One hath a transient fate, and another is established throughout eternity;\n One is full of health, and another is sickly;\n One is full of years, and another is a mere stripling;\n One is filled with righteousness, and another lives in sin;\n One is given to prayer, and another is addicted to deceit;\n One is upright and religious,\n Another is immersed in an ocean of crime and wickedness;\n One is of good disposition, and another is of hasty temper;\n One is patient, and another is quarrelsome;\n One is at ease, another in pain;\n One is in difficulties, another is prosperous;\n One is a chieftain in the world of luxury, p. 59\n Another is a captive in the snares of adversity;\n One is established in the rose garden of comfort,\n Another is associated with anguish, pain, and distress;\n One is like a rose resplendent with joy,\n Another is distressed at heart, and pained in soul;\n One girdeth his loins with obedience,\n Another bringeth his life to an end in sin;\n One passeth day and night with the Koran in his hands,\n Another sleepeth intoxicated in the corner of a wine shop;\n One is fixed firm as a peg at the door of religion,\n Another is a sinner in the way of infidelity;\n One is prosperous, learned, and intelligent,\n Another is unfortunate, ignorant, and abashed; p. 60\n One is a champion, agile, and a warrior,\n Another is faint-hearted, indolent, and without courage;\n One exceedeth all limits in the possession of wealth,\n Another is in want of bread and means for his family;\n One hath the taper of joy resplendent,\n To another bright daylight is as night.\n57:1 The stars.","title":"Sadi's Scroll of Wisdom: On the Vicissitudes of Fortune a...","type":"page"}