Saadi سعدی
poet · traveler · Shiraz, Persia · 1210?–1291?
A poet who wandered the world for nearly thirty years to escape the Mongol invasions, then came home to Shiraz and wrote the Rose Garden and the Orchard.
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The children of Adam are limbs of one another, for in creation they are of one essence. When time brings pain to one limb, the other limbs cannot rest. You who feel no sorrow at the suffering of others, you do not deserve to be called human.
بنی آدم اعضای یکدیگرند
که در آفرینش ز یک گوهرند
چو عضوی به درد آورد روزگار
دگر عضوها را نماند قرار
تو کز محنت دیگران بی غمی
نشاید که نامت نهند آدمیThe Rose Garden (Gulistan), chapter 1
1258
Everyone who came built a new house, then left and handed the place on to another.
هر که آمد عمارتی نو ساخت
رفت و منزل به دیگری پرداختThe Rose Garden (Gulistan), preface
1258
Whoever brings the faults of others before you and counts them will surely carry your faults before others.
هر که عیب دگران پیش تو آورد و شمرد
بی گمان عیب تو پیش دگران خواهد بردGulistan (The Rose Garden), chapter 2
13th century
I am glad in the world because the world is glad through Him. I am in love with the whole world, because the whole world comes from Him.
به جهان خرم از آنم که جهان خرم ازوست
عاشقم بر همه عالم که همه عالم ازوستA ghazal of Saadi
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