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I am a few days late with this post\u00a0because we had some renovation issues to deal with in my house last week and they left me no time at all to write. The extra time, however, did help me understand\u00a0better what I want to say about this week’s Sa’di Says<\/a>, which\u00a0contains Sa’di’s\u00a0most famous lines.\u00a0Here is my translation:<\/p>\n All men and women are to each other These lines are\u00a0woven into a Persian carpet\u00a0created\u00a0by Mohammed Seirafian, which the government of Iran gave to the United Nations as a gift. There’s a picture of it at the top if this post. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a larger image that I could use to show you where on the carpet the verses are.\u00a0The carpet\u00a0originally hung in the main hall in the UN building, but, according to the UN Visitor’s Center Facebook page<\/a>, renovations have made it necessary to hang the carpet <\/span><\/span>in\u00a0the entrance<\/span><\/span> of the temporary building on the North Lawn. In 2009, President Obama quoted an older translation of these lines in the first off his Noruz messages to the people of Iran:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nthe limbs of a single body, each of us drawn
\nfrom life\u2019s shimmering essence, God\u2019s perfect pearl;
\nand when this life we share wounds one of us,
\nall share the hurt as if it were our own.
\nYou, who will not feel another\u2019s pain,
\nyou forfeit the right to be called human.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n