Analysis of Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 19

Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)



Life is in the keeping of a single breath and the world is an existence between two annihilations. Those who sell the religion for the world ‘are asses’, they sell Joseph but what do ‘they buy’? Did I not command you, O sons of Adam, that ye should not worship Satan?

On the word of a foe thou hast broken faith with a friend.  
        See from whom thou hast cut thyself off and to whom united.   


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Poetic Form
Metre 1100101010100111010011111100101011101110111111110111111011111010 10110111101101 11111111011010
Characters 420
Words 78
Sentences 6
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 2
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 100
Words per line (avg) 25
Letters per stanza (avg) 150
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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