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In Bailkan once a devotee I saw, “From folly purge me by thy words,” I said. “Go!” he replied, “thou who art skilled in law, Be as earth humble, or what thou hast read Might in the earth as well be buried.”
Source Gulistan, Chapter VIII, §9 · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to Saadi in the Gulistan, a devotee of the town of Bailkan reminds a learned man that knowledge has value only when it is carried by humility: without it, all one has read remains as if buried. Today, in a conversation about a subject you know well, first listen to the other person to the end and let yourself learn something from them.
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