Source:The Rose Garden
I never shed tears over all the hardships I faced nor lost courage at the turn of tides, except once. That happened when I was barefoot and could not afford to buy a pair of shoes. That year I walked all the way to the masjid at Kufah, greatly disheartened. There I saw a man who had lost both his feet! I then turned and thanked Allah with a grateful heart and forgot the gloom over my naked shoeless feet.
(Sa'adi Shirazi)