On the Ambiguous Meter of a Line of poetry in Sa'di's Gulistan (I am not riding a camel, neither am I a camel )

There is a line of poetry in one of the tales of Sa'di's Gulistan causing much discussion “I am neither mounted on a camel, nor like a mule under a load. I am no lord of a vassal, neither the slave of any king. I have no concern about either the present or the past. I draw my breathe feely, and pass my life in comfort.” (Gladwin, 1865: 183,184). In Persian classical prosody, the lines of each verse must have similar meters, but in this verse, there is no such similarity between the lines. In this paper, different emendations of this verse have been mentioned and various views on the meter of this verse have been discussed. It is argued that the verse is composed according to the rules of Arabic prosody.