Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 3, 2025
And had Hatim Tayi, who dwelt in the desert, come to live in a city, he would have been overwhelmed with the importunities of mendicants, and they would have torn the clothes from his back: Look not towards me, lest thou should draw the eyes of others, for at the mendicant's hand no good can be expected." He said: "I pity their condition." I replied: "Not so; but you envy them their property."
No one braver than he; none so charitable; none so generous and merciful; none so eloquent; none on whose lips poetry was such sweet speech for the exalting of souls; above all, never had there been such a keeper of his word of promise. "And of this judge you by some of the many things they tell of him. "A famine fell upon the land. It was when Hatim had become Sheik of his tribe.
"And passing out, he slew the horse, and kindled a fire; then, while the stranger and her children were sharing piece by piece with his own, 'Shame, shame! he said, 'that ye alone should eat; and going through the dowar, he brought the neighbors together, and he only went hungry. There was no more of the meat left. Was ever one merciful like Hatim? In combat, he gave lives, but took none.
I will not ask his name; still it must be a great happiness to traverse the world with welcome everywhere, and everywhere and all the time accompanied and inspired by a mind stored with themes and examples beautiful as the history of El Hatim."
They asked Hatim Tayi: "Have you ever met, or heard of, a person of a more independent spirit than yourself?" He answered: "Yes, one day I had made a sacrifice of forty camels, and invited the chief of every Arab tribe to a feast. Then I repaired to the border of the desert, where I met a wood-cutter, who had tied up his fagot to carry it into the city.
'Man was created to exercise compassion, Otherwise, angels were not wanting for devotion. This, on my part, can never be done that I should deliver over thee to thine enemy for the sake of my own avarice. The old man, in silence, sat apart in a corner, and heard all their boastings, and wept for Hatim.
The Persian writings are full of anecdotes of Naushirwan's justice and wisdom. Hatim or rather Hatim Tai, is the name of an Arab chief, who is celebrated for his generosity and his mad adventures, in an elegant Persian work called Kissae Hatim Tai. This work was translated into English for the Asiatic Translation Fund in 1830.
Then he smote my she-camel with his sword, and she would have died, though ye had not come to her and cut her throat. Next morning the prince mounted the beast of one of his companions and taking the latter up behind him, set out and fared on till midday, when they saw a man coming towards them, mounted on a camel and leading another, and said to him, 'Who art thou? 'I am Adi, son of Hatim et Tai, answered he.
They came back laughing, 'It was only a gourd, and as we have much better on our camel-saddles, we threw it away. "But the mother of Hatim, listening to the report, was not content. In her childhood she heard what was tradition then; how Solomon, at the completion of his temple in Jerusalem, journeyed to Mecca upon a carpet of silk wafted by the wind, with men, spirits, and birds.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking