Salute To The Thief

 'Junaid Of Baghdad' was passing the scene of a public hanging, where a thief was on the scaffold.

'Junaid' bowed towards the criminal.

Someone asked him:

'Why did you do that?'

Junaid said:

'I was bowing before his single-mindedness. For his aim, that man has given his life.'

[Idrees Shah]

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Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he came across a live one. 

                        [Mirza Ahsan Of Tabriz]