Part 45 (1/2)

16 Songs of Consolation New Lyrics 1904

17 Hamid the Luckless and other Tales in Verse 1904

Appendix VIII

Notes on Rehatsek's Translation of the Beharistan

The Beharistan consists of eight chapters: 1 Arolorification of Sufis Realms by Wisdom

4 The Trees of Liberality and Generosity

5 Tender State of the Nightingale of the Garden of Love

6 Breezes of Jocular Sallies

7 Signing Birds of Rhyive the following as specimens of the Stories: First Garden, pp 14 and 15

Story

Bayazid having been asked what the traditional and the divine law amounted to, he replied that the former is to abandon the world, and the latter to associate with the Lord [These ts are the Sonna and the Farz]

Verses

O thou who concerning the law of the men of the period Askest about the traditional and divine command; The first is to turn the soul from the world away, The second is to find the way of proximity to the Lord

Story

Shebli ( become demented was taken to the hospital and visited by acquaintances He asked who they were, and they replied: ”Thy friends,” whereon he took up a stone and assaulted thean to run away, but he exclaimed:--”O pretenders, return Friends do not flee from friends, and do not avoid the stones of their violence”

Verses

He is a friend, who althoughwith enmity From his friend, only becomes more attached to him

If he strikes him with a thousand stones of violence The edifice of his love will only be made aristan and Other Unpublished Translations by Rehatsek, Presented to the Royal Asiatic Society by F F Arbuthnot

1 The Nigaristan (Picture Gallery), by Mu'in-uddin Jawini

Faithfully translated from the Persian by E Rehatsek 1888

The Preface is by Arbuthnot He points out that there are three great Persian didactic works, viz:--The Gulistan, or Rose Garden, by Sadi; The Nigaristan by Jawini; and The Beharistan by Jaaristan contains 534 stories in prose and verse