Dhu-l-Nun said to a disciple,
"Start instructing people by lecturing,
but always remember never to bring yourself (your ego) in between."
The disciple agreed to follow his advice.
However very few attended
his discourses.
One day nobody came to listen, and he did not deliver
a talk that day.
Shortly after, an old lady appeared on the spot and,
reprimanding him said,
"You had promised to Dhu-l-Nun to deliver a
discouse every day and never bring yourself in between.
What does your
silence mean now?
Is this not breaking your solemn promise to him?"
At once he realized his mistake, and thereafter he delivered talks
daily for fifty years, never caring whether anyone was present or not.
--Fariduddin Attar
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