Sa'di: All Adam's race are members of one frame;

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All Adam's race are members of one frame;

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by Sa'di
(1207? - 1291) Timeline

English version by
Edward B. Eastwick

Original Language
Persian/Farsi

Muslim / Sufi

13th Century

All Adam's race are members of one frame;
Since all, at first, from the same essence came.
When by hard fortune one limb is oppressed,
The other members lose their wonted rest:
If thou feel'st not for others' misery,
A son of Adam is no name for thee.

1258

-- from The Gulistan of Sadi: The Rose Garden, Translated by Edward B. Eastwick

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