حبیب السیر 29.3

29.3

he was unable to govern what he already possessed, and still he desires to appropriate another kingdom." The darwesh drained the cup, and said to the cup-bearer, "Fill another goblet to the blindness of the despicable poet Sanái." The cup-bearer replied, "Sanai is a learned poet, endowed with an elegant genius." The miserable man answered, "If he were a gainer by his elegant genius, he would employ himself in some business which would be serviceable to him : he has in a certain paper written several frivolous remarks which are of no use to him, neither does he know for what reason God created him." Sanai, upon hearing this speech, became a changed man : he awoke from his intoxication of negligence, and employed himself in walking in the path of the Prophet.