List of Stories in The Masnavi - Book VI

Book VI

  • Preface (in prose)
  • Proem
  • The Bird on the City-wall
  • The temptation of Free-will
  • The Hindu Slave and his Master’s daughter
  • The Thief who put out the light
  • The Story of Ayáz (continued)
  • The Fowler and the Bird
  • The Man whose Ram was stolen
  • The Watchman who cried out after the Robbers had gone
  • The Lover who fell asleep
  • The Turkish Amír and the Minstrel
  • ‘A’isha and the Blind Man
  • “Die before ye die”
  • A Poet’s rebuke to the Shí’ites of Aleppo
  • Parable of the Ant
  • The Man who gave the drum-call for breakfast at midnight
  • The Story of Bilál
  • The Story of Hilál
  • The Horse that went backward
  • Mohammed and Jesus
  • The ugly old Hag who wanted a Husband
  • The Dervish and the Man of Gílán
  • The Beggar and the House where nothing could be got
  • The Man who was desperately ill, and the Story of the Súfi and the Cadi
  • Sultan Mahmud and the Hindú Boy
  • The Turk and the Tailor
  • The Fakir and the Hidden Treasure
  • Shaykh Abu ‘l-Hasan Kharraqáni and his Disciple
  • Man the vicegerent of God
  • The Three Travellers and the sweetmeat
  • The Camel, the Ox, and the Ram
  • Dalqak and the King of Tirmid
  • The Mouse and the Frog
  • Sultan Mahmúd and the Night-thieves
  • The Sea-cow and the Pearl
  • ‘Abdu ‘l-Ghawth and the Peris
  • The insolvent Dervish and the Police Inspector of Tabríz
  • Ja’far-i Tayyár’s irresistible attack on a fortress
  • Parable of the man who sees double
  • The Khwárizmsháh and the beautiful Horse
  • The imprisonment of Joseph
  • The Three Princes who fell in love with the portrait of the Princess of China
  • The Sadr-i Jahán of Bukhárá and the Jurist
  • Story of two Brothers
  • The King who forced a learned Doctor to drink wine with him
  • Imra’u ‘l-Qays and the King of Tabúk
  • The Man who dreamed of a Hidden Treasure
  • The Cadi and the Wife of Júhí
  • The Prophet and ‘Alí
  • Hell and the true Believer
  • The Story of Nimrod
  • The miracles of Shaybán Rá’í
  • The Man who left his property to the laziest of his three Sons
  • Parable of the Child and the Bogle

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