Analysis of Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 11
I spoke in the cathedral mosque of Damascus a few words by way of a sermon but to a congregation whose hearts were withered and dead, not having travelled from the road of the world of form, the physical, to the world of meaning, the moral world. I perceived that my words took no effect and that burning fire does not kindle moist wood. I was sorry for instructing brutes and holding forth a mirror in a locality of blind people. I had, however, opened the door of meaning and was giving a long explanation of the verse We are nearer unto Him than the jugular vein till I said:
‘The Friend is nearer to me than my self,
But it is more strange that I am far from him.
What am I to do? To whom can it be said that he
Is in my arms, but I am exiled from him.’
I had intoxicated myself with the wine of these sentiments, holding the remnant of the cup of the sermon in my hand when a traveller happened to pass near the edge of the assembly, and the last turn of the circulating cup made such an impression upon him that he shouted and the others joined him who began to roar, whilst the raw portion of the congregation became turbulent. Whereon I said: ‘Praise be to Allah! Those who are far away but intelligent are in the presence of Allah, and those who are near but blind are distant.’
When the hearer understands not the meaning of words
Do not look for the effect of the orator’s force
But raise an extensive field of desire
That the eloquent man may strike the ball of effect.
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Metre | 1100010110100111110101100101101001110101011011101001011100101101111110101101011101111101010101010100001001110111010011100110010101011110101101001111 0111011111 11111111111 1111111111111 1011111111 1101001101111001001010110100111010010111011001000111010011110100111110001011101111011010010011001111111011110110100100101100111111110 101001101011 1111001101001 11101011010 1010011101101 |
Characters | 1,635 |
Words | 291 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 1, 4 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 117 |
Words per line (avg) | 29 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 292 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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