Sufi wisdomСуфийская мудрость

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Oriental Mysticism, Part I, ch. IV, Concerning Fellowship and Renunciation, pp. 15–16.

Palmer's rules for a disciple in the presence of his teachers, through Conway ('Rules for the Young'), close but shortened. Tolstoy leaves out two rules (against being over-ceremonious with one's elders, and on the etiquette of time, place, and persons), 'before your elders' after 'Never boast', and 'and renounce his (bad) habits' at the end. Palmer's book is 'founded upon' 'Aziz bin Mohammed Nafasi's Persian treatise and gives, in his words, 'a clearer and more succinct account of the system than would have been afforded by a mere translation' (preface); the Persian of these rules was not found. The printed editions signed it «Суфи»; «Суфийская мудрость» is the Jubilee editors' correction.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Oriental Mysticism (1867), Part II, ch. V, Of the Four Universal Sources, end, p. 42; Conway (1874), no. CXXXIV, Inner Light, p. 82.

Palmer's four lines, through Conway, retold in prose and changed at the end: 'All the earth I'd wandered over, seeking still the beacon light, Never tarried in the daytime, never sought repose at night; Till I heard a reverend preacher all the mystery declare, Then I looked within my bosom, and 'twas shining brightly there.' In Palmer a preacher's teaching sends the seeker to look within; Tolstoy makes the preacher himself inward: «Проповедник этот был в моей душе» (that preacher was in my soul), and adds «который открыл мне истину» (who revealed the truth to me) for 'all the mystery declare'. Palmer's chapter ends on it after 'if the Traveller then would know God, he must look into his own heart'. Palmer names no poet, and the Persian was not found. Conway's margin, 'Persian. Sufi.', gave the printed signature «Персидский Суфи»; «Суфийская мудрость» is the Jubilee editors' correction.

The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. The Dabistán, or School of Manners; Hafiz, Divan, Dabistán, ch. XII (on the Sufis), sect. III, Shea and Troyer (1843), vol. III; Hafiz, ghazal 80 ('ʿeyb-e rendān makon'); Conway (1874), no. LII, Sympathy of Religions, p. 32.

Conway's English, from the Dabistán and from Hafiz. The first paragraph is Conway's shortening of the advice the Sufi master Sabjani gave a disciple, in Shea and Troyer's translation of the Dabistán: 'If thou art a Muselman, go to the Franks … if thou art a Nazarean, join the Jews … whatever be thy religion, associate with men of an opposite persuasion.' Conway: 'If thou art a Mussulman, go stay with the Franks; if a Christian, join the Jews; if a Shiah, mix with the schismatics: whatever thy religion, associate with men of opposite persuasion. If in hearing their discourses thou art not in the least moved, but canst mix with them freely, thou hast attained peace, and art a master of creation.' (the scan reads 'Shuah'). Tolstoy makes the Franks «христиане» (Christians) and the Shiah among the schismatics «католик» among «православные» (a Catholic among the Orthodox), and drops 'and art a master of creation'. The second paragraph is close to Conway: 'Hafiz says, "The object of all religions is alike. All men seek their beloved; and all the world is love's dwelling: why talk of a mosque or a church?"' Its last two clauses are a couplet of Hafiz's ghazal 80: 'everyone seeks the Friend, sober or drunk; everywhere is the house of love, mosque or synagogue' (Conway leaves out 'sober or drunk'). The first clause is not in the couplet, and the Hafiz sentence was not found in Shea and Troyer's Dabistán. The Persian of the Dabistán was not found online. The printed editions signed the entry «Суфи и Парси» (Sufi and Parsi; Conway's next paragraph is 'The Parsi sentence'); «Суфийская мудрость» is the Jubilee editors' correction. Not in Thoughts of Wise Men (1903).