{"id":104316,"date":"2022-06-30T07:50:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T12:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=104316"},"modified":"2022-06-30T07:50:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T12:50:41","slug":"a-story-by-sheikh-hassan-jouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2022\/06\/30\/a-story-by-sheikh-hassan-jouri\/","title":{"rendered":"A story by\u00a0Sheikh Hassan Jouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was passing through the vicinity of Jondi Shahpour I heard a tale by Khajeh Mohamad Mahtab which I will take to my grave with me.<\/p>\n<p>As I walk, I see a man under the heat of the sun, signing and sewing yarn, I went up to him and said\u201d Can you the man of God teach how to love so I can learn to love thy God\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mahtab says- Tell me if any piece of writing has ever inspired you? I said NO<\/p>\n<p>Mahtab says- Tell me has any flower that has blossomed in your garden ever taken your breath away and away from your sorrows? I said NO<\/p>\n<p>Mahtab, Tell me has any voice or sound thrilled you? I said NO<\/p>\n<p>Mahtab, Tell me has a beautiful face ever transformed you so much that you do not notice the path or the way into the well? I said NO<\/p>\n<p>Mahtab, Tell me have you ever whispered a song under the rain drops. I said NO<\/p>\n<p>Mahtab, Tell me Have you ever gazed at the sky to look for the snow drops and felt it on your skin and warming your soul? I said NO<\/p>\n<p>Mahtab, Tell me has a child\u2019s laughter ever given you so much joy? I said NO<\/p>\n<p>Mahtab, Tell me have you ever come across a poem, a writing, a quote that has jilted your soul so that you would if standing sit and if sitting stand up on your two feet? I said NO<\/p>\n<p>Mahtab, Tell me has the clarity of water, or the tallness of the tree, or the softness of a leaf, or the struggles of an ant, triggered a tear to fall on to your face? I said NO<\/p>\n<p>Mahtab Tell me have you ever laughed to another\u2019s laughter and cried to another\u2019s tears? I said NO<\/p>\n<p>Mahtab, Tell me have you ever fallen in love with a book, a painting, or a teacher? I said NO<\/p>\n<p>Mahtab, Tell me have you ever been mesmerized by looking at an apple or a pomegranate before taking a bite out of it? I said NO<\/p>\n<p>Mahtab- Tell me have you ever caressed your face, your eyes, your ears and your brow with an expression of love and nurturing? I said NO<\/p>\n<p>Mahtab, Distance yourself from you as one can teach love to a ROCK but not YOU!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was passing through the vicinity of Jondi Shahpour I heard a tale by Khajeh Mohamad Mahtab which I will take to my grave with me. As I walk, I see a man under the heat of the sun, signing and sewing yarn, I went up to him and said\u201d Can you the man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phart"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104318,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104316\/revisions\/104318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}