Wisdom
If your teacher is pleased, your rank is lofty,
Translated from Uzbek · Original text
If your teacher is pleased, your rank is lofty,Earth and heaven will bow to you and praise you.But if your teacher is grieved, happiness is forbidden you,Earth and heaven may come crashing on your head.Whoever humiliates his teacher, though he be an eagle,Will have no sky except a pitch-dark pit.He will drink the poison of ignorance each moment,And have no other torment, no other punishment than this.Just as knowledge is a paradise on earth,Dark ignorance is the hell of this world.Know that the ignorant, in every time and age,Never comprehend the light and radiance.Your fortunes will not brighten, your eyes will never smile,No wings will ever grow on you to fly.At every step the words you speak will break,O you who betrayed your teacher and were disowned!..Akrom MALIK
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