The Greengrocer and the Parrot | The Masnavi

A greengrocer keeps a sweet-voiced green parrot that minds the shop and chatters with every customer who walks in. One careless flight knocks over the bottles of rose-oil, and the furious owner strikes the bird so hard it loses the feathers on its head and falls silent for days. Then a bare-headed holy man passes by, and the parrot, sure it has found a fellow culprit, suddenly finds its voice again.

"Both reeds drank from the same water-source, (but) this one is empty and that one full of sugar."

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0:00 Introduction
1:14 He was giving presents to every dervish, that he might get...
2:24 They set up (a claim of) equality with the prophets
3:40 This one is good (fertile) soil and that one brackish and...
4:56 He thinks, I have acted like him: how should that...
6:25 If you call him (the true believer) hypocrite, this vile...
7:32 A piece of rubbish jumps into the mouth of a living man,...
8:46 Rased the fortress and took it from the infidel, then...
10:08 The vile man will steal the language of dervishes, that he...

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