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The Gulistân

does no good in the time of [his] ability will see distress in the time of [his] inability.

No one is more unlucky than an oppressor of men, because in the day of calamity no one is his friend.

is in the keeping of a single breath, and the world is an existence between two annihilations. Those who sell the religion of the world are asses; they sell Joseph, but what do they buy? 'Did I not command you, O sons of Adam, that ye should not worship Satan.'

On the word of a foe thou hast broken faith with a friend; see from whom thou hast cut thyself off, and to whom united.

cannot conquer the righteous, and the Sultân the poor.

Lend nothing to a prayerless man although his mouth may gasp from penury; because he who neglects the commands of God will also not care for what he may be indebted to thee.