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Updated: August 4, 2024
And if thou give him less, he will say, "He makes light of me and gives me less than he gave the fisherman." 'Thou art right, rejoined Khusrau; 'but the thing is done and it ill becomes a king to go back on his gift. Quoth Shirin, 'An thou wilt, I will contrive thee a means to get it back from him. 'How so? asked he; and she said, 'Call back the fisherman and ask him if the fish be male or female.
Quoth Shirin, "If thou wilt, I will contrive thee a means to get it back from him." Quoth he, "How so?"; and she said, "Call back, if thou so please, the fisherman and ask him if the fish be male or female. Khusrau laughed at his clever reply and ordered him other four thousand dirhams.
Again the replies made by the imprisoned king which have been reproduced in different sources suit the times of the Yezegerd who descended from Khusrau II and not Sheroe, Khusrau's brilliant career despite its shady side strongly contrasted with the period ushered in by the patricide.
Human nature was the same among the Moguls as it is to-day, and the men who were able to spend a million or half a million dollars upon their sepulchers could afford to throw in a few expressions of humility. The most beautiful of the tombs is that of Amir Khusrau, a poet who died at Delhi in 1315, the author of ninety-eight poems, many of which are still in popular use.
His first letter to this effect was sent to Badham, viceroy of Yemen, to be forwarded to Khusrau, king of Persia. Khusrau tore the letter, and ordered Badham to restore the prophet to his right mind or send him his head. Khusrau was presently after murdered by his son Siroes; Badham with his people turned Mussulmans, and Mahomet continued him in his government.
Asked he, "And why?", and she answered, "Because if, after this, though give one of thy courtiers a like sum, he will disdain it and say, 'He hath but given me the like of what he gave the fisherman. And if thou give him less, the same will say, 'He despiseth me and giveth me less than he gave the fisherman." Rejoined Khusrau, "Thou art right, but it would dishonour a king to go back on his gift; and the thing is done."
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