Page:Tales from the Gulistan (1928).pdf/100

The Morals of Dervishes

asked the old man who had lost his son : "O noble and intelligent old man! As thou has smelt the odour of his garment from Egypt, why hast thou not seen him in the well of Canaan?

He replied: "My state is that of leaping lightning; one moment it appears, and at another it vanishes. I am sometimes sitting in high heaven, sometimes I cannot see the back of my foot. Were a Dervish always to remain in that state, he would not care for the two worlds."