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Saadi on the Bonds of Humanity

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Fragment of a Safavid carpet (ca. 1550)

بني آدم اعضاي يك پیکرند، که در آفرينش ز يك گوهرند

چو عضوى به درد آورد روزگار، دگر عضوها را نماند قرار

تو کزمحنت دیگران بی غمی، نشاید که نامت نهند آدمی

Of one Essence is the human race,

Thusly has Creation put the Base;

One Limb impacted is sufficient,

For all Others to feel the Mace.

Muslih-ud-Din Mushrif-ibn-Abdullah (Saadi), Gulistan (1258 CE)

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