Page:Tales from the Gulistan (1928).pdf/89

Story XLI

of the great devotees having been asked about his opinion concerning a hermit whom others had censured in their conversation, he replied: "I do not see any external blemishes on him, and do not know of internal ones."

Whomsoever thou seest in a religious habit, consider him to be a religious and good man; and, if thou knowest not his internal condition, what business has the Muhtasib inside the house?