| The Elephant - Adapted from a Famous Sufi Story |
Once there was a poor Persian village where all were blind. One day a strange new creature called an elephant appeared at the village wall. Since no one in the village had ever heard of an elephant, the three wisest of the blind villagers went out to discover what the new creature was like. They all felt the creature. The first blind sage felt the tail and said, "This creature cannot be an elephant, this is a rope!" The second blind sage felt the leg and said, "No, this is a tree!" The third blind sage felt the side and said, "No, you fools, this is a wall!"
As the three sages argued amongst themselves, a lesser blind man, not knowing any better, mounted the elephant and rode away.
Adapted from a Famous Sufi Story