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Updated: May 3, 2025
Asked Zu 'l Kura'a, "Who told thee of this?" and Adi answered, "My father appeared to me in a dream last night and said to me, 'Harkye, Adi; Zu 'l Kura'a King of Himyar, sought the guest-rite of me and I, having naught to give him, slaughtered his she-camel, that he might eat: so do thou carry him a she-camel to ride, for I have nothing." And Zu 'l-Kura'a took her, marvelling at the generosity of Hatim of Tayy alive and dead.
"One day, an old man and his wife, taking two or three of their young children with them, for the purpose of picking up wood, strayed near the cave where Hatim was concealed; and began to gather fuel in that same forest. True it is, that a man without pity is not a human being, and he in whose heart there is no feeling is a butcher.
Once an antagonist under his foot, called to him: 'Give me thy spear, Hatim, and he gave it. "'Foolish man! his brethren exclaimed. "'What else was there? he answered. 'Did not the poor man ask a gift of me? "Never a captive besought his help vainly. On a journey once, a prisoner begged him to buy his liberty; but he was without the money required, and on that account he was sorely distressed.
And seeing Lael clinging closely to the Princess, he added: "Be not afraid. Know ye rather that my master, when a child, heard the story of Hatim, a warrior and poet of the Arabs, and ever since he has lived believing hospitality a virtue without which there can be no godliness. Do not forget the bell." They entered and were alone. To their amazement the room was more than comfortably furnished.
Wherefore, saying to herself, 'It was Solomon going to Mecca. Not for nothing threw he the gourd, she went alone, and brought it in, and opened it, finding three seeds one red, like a ruby; a second blue, like a sapphire; the third green, like an emerald. "Now she might have sold the seeds, for they were beautiful as gems cut for a crown, and enriched herself; but Hatim was all the world to her.
The eunuch saw the reference, and smiled. Asking of Hatim now was only another form of inquiry after his master; not merely had the latter been in her mind; she wished to know more about him. On his part, the story-teller arose from his servile posture, and asked with the animation of one to whom a favorite theme is presented: "Noble lady, know you aught of the desert?"
'There is no God but God; and I shall teach the lesson to my Hatim in the morning, when al hudhud flies for water; at noon, when it whistles to itself in the shade; and at night, when it draws a wing over its head to darken the darkness, and sleep.
I now commence my tale; pay attention to it, and be just to its merits. In the "Adventures of the Four Darwesh, " it is thus written, and the narrator has related, that formerly in the Empire of Rum there reigned a great king, in whom were innate justice equal to that of Naushirwan, and generosity like that of Hatim.
"So came Hatim, of the Bene-Tayyi, lustrous as the moon of Ramazan to eager watchers on high hilltops, and better than other men, even as all the virtues together are better than any one of them, excepting charity and love of God.
There was silence then, and as the gaze of the story-teller was again finding a fascination in her face, Irene took refuge behind her veil, but said, presently: "With permission, I will take the story of Hatim for mine; but here is my friend what hast thou for her?" The story-teller turned to Lael. "Her pleasure shall be mine," he said.
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