DIRTY RAGS One man was publicly offending Omar Chajam: “- You’re an atheist! You’re drinker! Almost a thief!” Chajam just smiled in response. One dandy dressed in the silk trousers watching that scene asked Chajam: “How can you tolerate such offences? Do you not feel hurt?” Omar Chajam smiled again and told: “Come with me.” Dandy followed him to the dusty lumber-room. Chajam lit a lamp and began rummaging in the trunk, where he found completely worthless tattered robe. He threw it to the dandy and said: “Try it, it will match you.” Dandy took a robe, looked at it and resented: “What these dirty rags are for? I am well dressed, and you must be crazy! – and threw the robe back. “You see,” Chajam said, “You did not want to try rags. Similarly, I did not want to try those dirty words that man threw me. To be aggrieved by offences means to try on rags someone throw us.”
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:19:32 +0000
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