The linguist is the Sufi, who enlightens humanity to the fact that what it seeks (its religions), though called by different names, are in reality one identical thing. The four travelers represent humanity in its search for an inner spiritual need it cannot define and which it expresses in different ways. All of a sudden, the men realized that what each of them had desired was in fact the same thing, only they did not know how to express themselves to each other. “No! This in my language is stafil,” said the Greek. “You have brought me my inab,” the Arab said. “But this is what I call uzum,” replied the Turk. He then returned to the men and gave them each a bunch. “I undertake to satisfy the desires of all of you.” Taking the coin, the linguist went to a nearby shop and bought four small bunches of grapes. A linguist passing by overheard their quarrel. The argument became heated as each man insisted on having what he desired. All four craved food, but the Persian wanted to spend the coin on angur the Turk, on uzum the Arab, on inab and the Greek, on stafil. “A Persian, a Turk, an Arab, and a Greek were traveling to a distant land when they began arguing over how to spend the single coin they possessed among themselves.
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