"'The Rose Garden' is a kaleidoscope of differing views and ideas, from the most noble to the most trivial, in what Peter Brent called 'a rich mixture of aphorisms, proverbs, love lyrics, erotic stories, descriptions of great rulers and pronouncements in prose and verse on morality and ethics.' Beyond the surface playfulness of his work there is a deep consistency to Saadi's poetry which reveals its sufic dimension. Saadi lived in a time of violence and barbarity much like our own: witnessing the dismemberment of Persia by the Mongols with its attendent massacres, he saw the end of the cultural supremecy of his beloved Baghdad. The charm, fun and games, and ultimate serenity in his work was thus hard-won, and aspects of life like cruelty and racism are not eluded: they are seen as part of the vast tapestry God has woven for mankind to study and learn from. It is in fact the complexity of Saadi's world view that makes this book into a primer for self-development and an instrument for altering one's own consciousness"--P. [4] of cover.
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