A scholar of note had a controversy with an unbeliever but, being <br />unable to cope with him in argument, shook his head and retired. <br />Someone asked him how it came to pass that, with all his eloquence and <br />learning, he had been unable vanquish an irreligious man. He <br />replied: ‘My learning is in the Quran, in tradition and in the sayings <br />of sheikhs, which he neither believes in nor listens to. Then of <br />what use is it to me to hear him blaspheming?’ <br />To him of whom thou canst not rid thyself by the Quran and tradition <br />The best reply is if thou dost not reply anything.<br /><br />Saadi Shirazi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ch-04-on-the-advantages-of-silence-story-04/
