Friday, 20 January 2012
Thursday, 19 January 2012
The following story by the great persian poet rumi illustrates how people can poet tumi illustrates how people can sometimes fight over a non_issue due to diffrence of language.
four people of different nationilities were travilling together when they found a they should do with it,one of them who was persian said they should purchase angoor.the other, who was an Arab,suggested that anab is the best fruit abd therfore they must purchase anab.the third,whowas a turk,however,wanted istafeel nad fourth,an indian named some other fruit.they were fighting with each other when a wise person who knew all four languages,happened to pass by .he said if you gaive me your coin i will show you something that i will make rach other will make each one of you something that will make each one of you happy'.they agreed,and the wise person took their coin to perchase a bunch of grapes.then all four of relised that that they actually wanted the same fruit,but they had been fighting because they had different names for it .
four people of different nationilities were travilling together when they found a they should do with it,one of them who was persian said they should purchase angoor.the other, who was an Arab,suggested that anab is the best fruit abd therfore they must purchase anab.the third,whowas a turk,however,wanted istafeel nad fourth,an indian named some other fruit.they were fighting with each other when a wise person who knew all four languages,happened to pass by .he said if you gaive me your coin i will show you something that i will make rach other will make each one of you something that will make each one of you happy'.they agreed,and the wise person took their coin to perchase a bunch of grapes.then all four of relised that that they actually wanted the same fruit,but they had been fighting because they had different names for it .
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