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Is it indeed true speaking, as I have heard, that the Caliph el Walid the First, in Hegira 88, sent to Mecca an immense present of gold and silver, forty camel-loads of small cut gems and a hundred thousand miskals in gold coin?" "It is true, Master. Save that he sent more; nearly two hundred thousand miskals. He also sent eighty Coptic and Greek artists to carve and gild the mosques.
In more recent times it has become a mere empty title, conferred upon rich Hindus by the Emperor of Delhi. Naishapur was once the richest and grandest city in the province of Khurasan. Seven miskals are more than an ounce and a quarter. The term Farang, vulgarly Frank, was formerly applied to Christian Europe in general, with the exclusion of Russia.
Great sire, there is an insignificant merchant in Naishapur, who has twelve rubies, each weighing seven miskals, which he has sewed on a collar, and put it round his dog's neck." On hearing this, I became greatly displeased, and said with anger, put this wazir to death.
Now when it was day, she asked me where I lodged and I told her, 'In such a place; whereupon she gave me leave to depart, handing to me a kerchief worked with gold and silver and containing somewhat tied in it, and took leave of me, saying, 'Go to the bath with this. I rejoiced and said to myself, 'If there be but five coppers here, it will buy me this day my morning meal. Then I left her, as though I were leaving Paradise, and returned to my poor crib where I opened the kerchief and found in it fifty miskals of gold.
According to the account of the historian Hago Mahomet of Kandahar, there was a ruby found in one of the temples which weighed four hundred and fifty miskals!
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