The Knee

A wandering dervish ran to where a Sufi sat deep in contemplation and said:

 

‘Quick! We must do something. A monkey has just picked up a knife.’

 

‘Don’t worry,’ said the Sufi, ‘so long as it was not a man.’

 

When the dervish saw the monkey again he found, sure enough, that it had thrown the knife away.

~ by Shaykh on March 29, 2008.