Gulistan of Saadi
On the Advantages of Silence
Story 4
A scholar of note had a controversy with an unbeliever but, being unable to cope with him in
argument, shook his head and retired. Someone asked him how it came to pass that, with all his
eloquence and learning, he had been unable vanquish an irreligious man. He replied: ‘My learning is
in the Quran, in tradition and in the sayings of sheikhs, which he neither believes in nor listens to.
Then of what use is it to me to hear him blaspheming?’
To him of whom thou canst not rid thyself by the Quran and tradition
The best reply is if thou dost not reply anything.
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