Kisah Sufi

A tanner who worked with stinking dung and urine wandered by accident one day into the perfumers’ bazaar. The smell of the perfume overwhelmed him, and he fell unconscious on the spot. People tried to revive him, sprinkling him with rose-water. They did not understand that the rose-water was causing his sickness, not curing it. The tanner’s own brother heard what had happened and came running with some dog-dung. “We must do what wise doctors advise: give the patient what he’s used to.” It worked: the tanner revived as soon as he smelled the dung. “Thank you, brother,” he said.