al-ayna

Updated: June 16, 2025

"If we saw a lover who pains as he ought, * Wi' love we would grant him all favours he sought." Quoth Abu al-Ayna, "There were in our street two women, one of whom had for lover a man and the other a beardless youth, and they foregathered one night on the terrace-roof of a house adjoining mine, knowing not that I was near.

Anonymous - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05