Stories LV and LVI
STORY LV
A Pâdshâh, meeting a holy man, asked him whether he did not sometimes remember him [for the purpose of getting presents]. He replied: "Yes, I do, whenever I forget God."
Whom He drives from His door, runs everywhere;
Whom He calls, runs to no one's door.
STORY LVI
A pious man saw in a dream a Pâdshâh in paradise and a devotee in hell, whereon he asked for the reason of the former's exaltation and the latter's degradation, saying that he had imagined the contrary ought to be the case. He received the following answer: "The Pâdshâh had, for the love he bore to Dervishes, been rewarded with paradise; and the devotee had, for associating with Pâdshâhs, been punished in hell."
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