Naf at Al-Yaman F M Yaz Lu Bi-Dhikrihi Al-Shajan (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...said, "Have ye agreed with him about what he has mentioned?" They said, "Yes." He said, "Go, and make over the money to him at once." Then he said to me, " Settle up thy affairs and be ready, for I have invested thee with a post." So I settled up my affairs, and he invested me with the post he had promised, and I continued rising higher and higher until I attained my present position. Then, said he to his son, Al-Fazl, " My son, what sayest thou with regard to the son of one who hath dealt thus with thy father? what should be his recompense?" The son answered, " By my life, I can find no fit reward for him, but that T should resign and give him my post"; and he did so. Story No. 67. It is said that Hdrun-r-Raskid went out to see some sight, disguised; and he found some boys playing, and among them an ugly boy,8 feeble of frame, who was sitting, watching their clothes, and turning them over one by one as he repeated the following verses: --"Bid thy image 1 turn away from mine eyes at the time of sleep, So that I may slumber and thus the fire blazing in my sides may be extinguished. As for me, I am as thon hast nlways known me (t e., faithful); so, is there to be any return of thy union? I am a sorely-sick man 3 whom the hands of his people are turning from side to side upon a bed of tears." The narrator continues, "Ar-Rashid was astonished at what he said, because of his extreme youth, and &began to speak kindly with him and converse with him, saying. "Whose is this poetry?" while the boy kept turning from him. Then he confessed that the lines were his. Ar-Rashid could scarcely believe this, ' and said to him, " If these lines are really thine, as thou hast asserted, ...