Abu’l-FazlАбу-ль-Фазл
1 passageотрывков: 1
Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
2. Тот, кто признает луч божественной силы в мельчайших вещах мира, тот человек высокого понимания и высоких стремлений. Такой человек уважает себя и других и не пренебрегает ничтожными делами, но смотрит на них, как на проявления божеской силы.
2. He who recognizes a ray of divine power in the smallest things of the world is a man of high understanding and high aspirations. Such a man respects himself and others, and does not disdain trifling tasks, but looks on them as manifestations of the power of God.
The Persian Jalal al-Din Rumi [Abu’l-Fazl].
From Ain-i Akbari · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changed“True greatness,” which regards the performance of the minutiae of business “as an act of Divine worship,” becomes the man who sees a ray of divine power in the smallest things and who looks on trifling tasks “as manifestations of the power of God”: doing them as worship becomes seeing God’s power in them.
What Tolstoy read · The Sacred Anthology… aspirations who, without the help of others, recognises a ray of the divine power in the smallest things of the world ; who shapes his inward and outward character accordingly, and shows due respect to himself and to others.
True greatness, in spiritual and in worldly matters, does not shrink from the minutiae of …
… but regards their performance as an act of divine worship.
Source text: archive.orgIn English · H. Blochmann, 1873He is a man of high understanding and noble aspirations who, without the help of others, recognizes a ray of the Divine power in the smallest things of the world ; who shapes his inward and outward character accordingly, and shews due respect to himself and to others.
True greatness, in spiritual and in worldly matters, does not shrink …
… but regards their performance as an act of Divine worship.
Source text: archive.orgDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Ain-i Akbari, Book I, Ain 1, The Household; Conway (1874), p. 102, no. CLXVIII, Worship, margin 'Abulfazl. A.C. 1595. Ab.'.
The first paragraph of Conway's 'Worship' (no. CLXVIII), which is the opening of Abu'l-Fazl's Ain-i Akbari, Book I, Ain 1, in Blochmann's English (Conway's list of authorities names Blochmann's translation), with the two sentences between the first and 'True greatness…' left out. The margin beside it reads 'Abulfazl. A.C. 1595.'; 'Second Divan of Jelâleddîn Rûmi' is the margin of no. CLXVI on the facing page, and 'Persian Tradition' that of no. CLXVII, so the signature «Персидский Джелаледин Руми» was taken from the wrong margins. Tolstoy turns the first sentence around («Тот, кто признает луч божественной силы в мельчайших вещах мира, тот человек высокого понимания и высоких стремлений»), leaves out 'without the help of others' and 'who shapes his inward and outward character accordingly', and joins the second sentence to the first man: 'True greatness, in spiritual and in worldly matters, does not shrink from the minutiae of business, but regards their performance as an act of divine worship' becomes «Такой человек … не пренебрегает ничтожными делами, но смотрит на них, как на проявления божеской силы» (such a man does not disdain trifling matters but looks on them as manifestations of divine power): the act of worship becomes a manifestation of divine power. Blochmann notes that the phrase was one Akbar often used. The Persian text (Blochmann's edition, Bibliotheca Indica, 1867–77) was not found in a searchable copy. Not in Thoughts of Wise Men (1903).