Arabic wisdomАрабская мудрость
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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.
3. Моисей говорит богу: «О, господи, где я найду тебя?!» Бог сказал: «Когда ты ищешь меня, ты уже нашел меня».
У мудреца спросили, почему он знает, что есть бог? Он сказал: «Разве нужен факел, чтобы видеть солнце?»
Нет у нас слов, чтобы сказать, что такое бог, но мы без слов знаем, что он есть.
3. Moses says to God: “O Lord, where shall I find you?!” God said: “When you seek me, you have already found me.”
A sage was asked how he knew that there is a God. He said: “Is a torch needed to see the sun?”
We have no words to say what God is, but without words we know that he is.
From Moncure D. Conway, The Sacred Anthology · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
Not in Leo Tolstoy as EditorThe three sayings reached Tolstoy through Conway’s English, the first two from d’Herbelot’s French; the Arabic and Persian texts were not found, and the trace holds no original to show beside them.
What Tolstoy read · The Sacred AnthologyMoses cried, ' Where, 0 Lord, shall I find thee ? '
God said, 'Know that when thou hast sought, thou …
He answered, ' Does the dawn then need a torch to be seen ? '
The Methnevi says, ' Supreme Being soars above thought and imagination : we are lost when we would comprehend or even suspect that which he is.
Source text: archive.orgAnother translation · Bibliothèque orientale, article 'Allah' · Barthélemy d'Herbelot, 1697… vous me chercherez, vous m'avez déjà trouvé; …
L'Aurore a-t-elle befoin de flambeau pour être vue?
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Moncure D. Conway, The Sacred Anthology (London, Trübner, 1874), no. XCVIII 'God', Conway p. 63, margin '(D'Herb.'; d'Herbelot, Bibliothèque orientale, article 'Allah' (1777 printing, vol. I).
Conway's section 'God', in order. The first two items come from d'Herbelot's Bibliothèque orientale, as Conway's margin says: a tradition from a book d'Herbelot calls 'Raudhat', in which God answers Moses 'know that when you seek me, you have already found me', and a Bedouin's answer, which d'Herbelot gives in Arabic transliteration and in French, 'does the dawn need a torch to be seen?'. Tolstoy makes the Bedouin «мудрец» and the dawn «солнце». His third paragraph replaces Conway's 'Methnevi' (Rumi's Masnavi, a Persian poem): 'Supreme Being soars above thought and imagination ... How vain then to seek words worthy of that being! Let it suffice us to adore in reverent silence' becomes «Нет у нас слов, чтобы сказать, что такое бог, но мы без слов знаем, что он есть»: silent adoration becomes knowing, without words, that God exists. The Bedouin's answer is Arabic (d'Herbelot gives the Arabic words); the language of the book d'Herbelot cites for the Moses tradition was not established; the third item is Persian. The Arabic and Persian texts were not found. Not in Thoughts of Wise Men (1903).
2. Никогда не стыдись спрашивать о том, чего не знаешь.
Всегда говори правду, хотя бы ты и знал, что она будет неприятна.
Тот, кто учен, но не прилагает к делу своей учености, подобен человеку, который пахал бы, но не сеял.
2. Never be ashamed to ask about what you do not know.
Always speak the truth, even if you know that it will be unpleasant.
Whoever is learned but does not put his learning to use is like a man who plowed but did not sow.
From The Sacred Anthology · shortened by Tolstoy (more).
What Tolstoy read · The Sacred AnthologyYou must not be ashamed to ask what you do not …
Invariably speak the truth, even when you are aware of its being disagreeable.
He who learns sciences, and does not practise what they teach, resembles a man who digs, but does not sow.
Albitis, F. The Morality of all Nations. Manchester. 1850.
Source text: archive.orgRelated · Saadi, Golestan, ch. 8, maxim 38هر که علم خواند و عمل نکرد بدان ماند که گاو راند و تخم نیفشاند.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. The Sacred Anthology (1874), p. 312, no. CCCCXCIX, Maxims, margin 'Arabic. (Albitis.)'.
Three of the eleven maxims of Conway's section 'Maxims' (no. CCCCXCIX), the first, sixth, and seventh, in his order and close to his English. 'You must not be ashamed to ask what you do not know' becomes «Никогда не стыдись спрашивать о том, чего не знаешь» (never be ashamed to ask), and 'a man who digs, but does not sow' becomes «человеку, который пахал бы, но не сеял» (a man who would plough but not sow). Saadi's Golestan has the same saying with the plough: 'whoever studied knowledge and did not practise it is like one who drove the oxen and did not scatter the seed' (ch. 8, maxim 38; Gladwin, in Conway's no. CCIII: 'resembleth him who ploughed, but did not sow'). Conway's margin reads 'Arabic. (Albitis.)', and his list of authorities names the book: F. Albitis, The Morality of all Nations (Manchester, 1850), not found online, so the maxims' Arabic was not traced. The printed editions of the Circle signed the entry «Арабский Албитис»; the Jubilee editors made it «Арабское (Албитис)», following Conway, as they did for January's 1-24.5 from the same book. Not in Thoughts of Wise Men (1903).