The virtue of contentment

  • Wise man
  • Big Fish and Weak hunter
  • Saadi talking about a person who was very stingy
  • When Saadi was a guest on a Trader
  • In the desert
  • desert dead
  • The king and the Farmer
  • A king and the beggar
  • Moses with the poor
  • Hatim and the poor
  • year of nothing
  • poor and asking
  • asking
Contents
1-The king and the Wise
2-King in talking but like a poor in eating
3-The dervish that not asking even from a generous person
4-The King and the Scholar
5-Who has no patience, wisdom is far from him
6-A Sufi group and Grocery man
7-Eat and drink, but do not be extravagant
8-Two dervishes from Khorasan were traveling together
9-Wretched is the food that brings humiliation to the person
10-A noble young man suffered a terrible wound in the Tatar war
11-A year of drought descended upon Alexandria
12-A dervish was in dire need
13-When Saadi saw a person with no feet
14-A traveler got lost in a desert
15-A Bedouin sitting among jewelers in Basra
16-Moses and the Dervish
17-Hatim Altai and the poor
18-Saadi speaks of a fool with wealth and status
19-A double amputee killed a centipede
20-A feeble fisherman whose net captured a massive and powerful fish
21-Saadi talking about a person who was very stingy
22-When Saadi was talking with a merchant in his room
23-A Dervish who lived hidden away in a cave
24-A King and the Beggar
25-A King and the Farmer