The Story of the Envious Man and the Enemy

Two men lived in neighboring houses. One man took such a hatred of the other and envy him so bitterly that the poor man determined to find another home. Knowing that when they no longer met every day, his enemy would soon forget all about him he moved into the capital of the country. About half a mile from this city, he bought a nice little place with a large garden and a fair sized core in the center of which stood an old well. In order to live a quieter life, the good man put on the robe of a dervish and divided his house into a quantity of small cells where he soon established a number of other dervishes. And now is the time for