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But may Allah do more to me and bring me down into the dust unburied unless I make ten Jews pay for this!" "Any one Jew in particular?" Grim asked, and the man in bed closed up like a clam that has been touched. He was a strange-looking fellow rather like one of those lean Spaniards whom Goya used to paint, with a scant beard turning grey, and hollow cheeks.
My Emîr, whom I love truly, casts me off. The Brûtestânts, who brought me up, despise me. The Christians call me dog!" "O man, stop crying, for it frightens me." Nesîbeh came again and leaned over him. "Be sure thy sorrow is from the hand of Allah to punish thy errors and disgust thee with them. My father says that calamities are often sent as warnings to the reprobate.
I asked, "How so?" and he answered, "This very day they bury my wife, and they bury me with her in one tomb; for it is the custom with us, if the wife die first, to bury the husband alive with her and in like manner the wife, if the husband die first; so that neither may enjoy life after losing his or her mate." "By Allah," cried I, "this is a most vile, lewd custom and not to be endured of any!"
I had been there in my private alcove some few minutes, when Rashîd arrived with a triumphant air, holding on high the famous whip. The sergeant came across the court with him. A score of soldiers waited in the gateway as I could see by the light of the great lantern hanging from the arch. 'Praise be to Allah, I have found it! cried Rashîd.
Thou wert the cause that I am now alive, and by Allah, what thing soever thou askest of me, I will give it to thee! But ask thou first of God, and then of me." "O my lord," said the stoker, "I fear...," "Fear not," quoth the Sultan. "I fear," continued he, "to ask aught and that thou shouldst refuse it to me."
If Allah had willed it? The saint was dead. At dawn his soul had passed into Barzakh, or the second world, the intermediate state between the present life and the resurrection. While administering to him, Abdul's anxious ears heard the ominous rattle in the dying man's throat, he turned his face Mecca-wards and reverently closed his eyes.
In the morning following, which is as much a day of rejoicing as our Christmas, the men of Islam gather at the mosques and engage in a service of thanksgiving to Allah for the blessings they and their families have enjoyed during the year past, and pray for a repetition of the same mercies for the year to come.
Therefore, if it so pleases you, transfer your gracious favor to my son, and grant his request, if he has one to prefer." "I swear by my beard, by Allah, and by the prophet, if Osman expresses a wish, I will grant it certainly and surely. I repeat my triple oath, and call Allah to witness it. What he requests I will grant!"
May Allah " "Tell me about Yasmini first! Where is she?" "Nay!" King tapped the flask in his pocket. "Nay! My throat is dry, but it shalt parch! I know not! As to where she is, I know not!" "Remember, and I will give you the whole of it!" He drew the flask out of his pocket and rode a little way toward the man. "None can overhear. Tell me now." "Nay, sahib! I am silent!"
Then the man asked him, "Doth it rest with me to divorce her, or with thee or with the Commander of the Faithful?" He answered, "It is in thy hand." "Then by Allah," quoth the slave, "I will never do it; no, never!" Hearing these words the Caliph was exceeding wroth and said to the Imam, "What is to be done, O Abu Yusuf?"
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