Bayazid encountered a dog and started to pull his robe away from it, so that it should not defile him.
The dog, in a human voice, said:
‘If I had been dry, there would have been no purpose in avoiding me. If I had been wet, you could have washed your robe. But the hate which you have towards me can never be cleansed.’
Bayazid said:
‘O enlightened dog, come and stay with me for a while.’
The dog answered:
‘That is impossible, because the world uses me as an epithet, and you are regarded by the world as a paragon.’
Bayazid exclaimed:
‘Alas! I am not fit to live with one whom the whole world regards as inferior: how can I therefore approach the Truth which all regard as the Highest of all?’
From: The Way of the Sufi, by Idries Shah.
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