Story illustrating the Humility of the Pious
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Sadi and Edwards, A. Hart
Some one heard the barking of a dog in the ruined hut of a pious man. Reflecting upon the strangeness of the fact, he went and searched, but found no traces of a dog. In truth, the devotee alone was in the house.
Not wishing his curiosity to be revealed, the man was departing, when the owner of the house cried out: “Come in; why standest thou upon the door? Knowest thou not, O friend, that I it was who barked? When I discerned that humility was acceptable to God, I banished pride and vanity from my heart, and clamoured with barks at the door of God, for I saw none more lowly than a dog.”
If thou desire to attain to dignity, let humility be thy path.
Behold, when the dew lies low upon the earth, the sun doth raise it to the skies.