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Updated: May 23, 2025
Quoth I to myself, ''Tis no time of me to stay here. So I came down from the platform and was about to go away, when the damsel cried out to me, 'Sit down, O Asma'i! Asked I, 'Who gave thee to know that I was Al-Asma'i? and she answered, 'O Shaykh, an thy name be unknown to us, thy poetry is not! So I sat down again and suddently the door opened and out came the first damsel, with a dish of fruits and another of sweetmeats.
I ate of both and praised their fashion and would have ganged my gait; but she cried out, 'Sit down, O Asma'i! Wherewith I raised my eyes to her and saw a rosy palm in a saffron sleeve, meseemed it was the full moon rising splendid in the cloudy East.
She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Al- Asma'i said to the Prince of True Believers, "Verily I have heard much, but nothing pleased me save three sets of couplets improvised by as many girls."
Said the Caliph, "Thou didst well, O Asma'i." and gave him other three hundred ducats in payment of his story. And I have heard a tale concerning Quoth Abu Ishak Ibrahim al-Mausili: I asked Al-Rashid once to give me a day's leave that I might be private with the people of my household and my brethren, and he gave me leave for Saturday the Sabbath.
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