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Updated: August 15, 2024
Then, O, thou flower of the desert, swept away by the blood-stained dazzling ocean of grandeur, with its foam of jealousy, its rocks and shoals of intrigue, on what shore of cruel death wast thou cast, or in what other land more splendid and more cruel? Suddenly at this moment that crazy Meher Ali screamed out: "Stand back! Stand back!! All is false!
It is undoubtedly one of the testaments or counsels, the so-called Pand Nameh or Andarz, of a father to a son, or some one person to another, and the typical representatives of which in the Pahlavi literature appear to be the well-known book of testament of Adarbad to his son, the book of advice to his son by Khosro Anushirvan and the book of counsel to the latter by his Wazir, Buzurj Meher .
The ways of the Shuubiya. Reference to Persia. Persia and Arabia compared. Arabia and Persia compared. Arabia and Persia contrasted. The prophets of Ajam. Reference to Persia. The Persian throne. Dicta of Mukaffa. Khalid al Barmaki. Dicta on Adab of Mukaffa. Reference to Barmaki. Reference to Barmaki. Sahal Ibn-Harun. Dictum of Buzurja Meher. Madaini quoted. Persia referred to.
Not one of those who lived there for three consecutive nights could escape these cruel jaws, save Meher Ali, who had escaped at the cost of his reason. I asked: "Is there no means whatever of my release?" The old man said: "There is only one means, and that is very difficult.
I wandered from room to room in the dark, with unavailing sorrow. Whom could I console when no one was by? Whose was this intense agony of sorrow? Whence arose this inconsolable grief? And the mad man cried out: "Stand back! Stand back!! All is false! All is false!!" I saw that the day had dawned, and Meher Ali was going round and round the palace with his usual cry in that dreadful weather.
Suddenly it came to me that perhaps he also had once lived in that house, and that, though he had gone mad, he came there every day, and went round and round, fascinated by the weird spell cast by the marble demon. Despite the storm and rain I ran to him and asked: "Ho, Meher Ali, what is false?"
A terrific scream made me jump, and I saw I was sitting on that camp-bedstead of mine sweating heavily; and the crescent moon looked pale in the morning light like a weary sleepless patient at dawn; and our crazy Meher Ali was crying out, as is his daily custom, "Stand back! Stand back!!" while he went along the lonely road.
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