Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141395050
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2014-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

“By God, lady,” I said, “it would be better to abandon this letter. Have you no fear of God here?” “Are you a messenger or a busy-body?” she asked, and I told her: “Both, and I urge you for God’s sake not to destroy that beautiful young man but to have pity on him.” “What is all this, Abu’l-Hasan?” she asked. “By God,” I said, “I can describe no more than a tenth of his sufferings.” “Is this all for my sake?” she said, and when I said it was, she asked what had caused his harshness and hatred to change to love and humility. I told her: “Lady, Time suffers change, and whoever trusts in it is put to shame and no longer remains the same. Yesterday he was loved and then he became a lover, while the emir becomes a captive. You were gripped by love for him and now he suffers the pain of your harshness.” “Abu’l-Hasan,” she told me, “by the Great God, for every grain of longing you talk about, I have much more. While he was inflicting lengthy sufferings on me he became harsher and harsher, while I had to endure. Then I got the upper hand, but I swear that his situation hurts me, and I would ransom my darling with my life.”

‘Then she called for an ink-stand and paper and wrote: “In the Name of God the Compassionate, the Merciful:

The letter came, and may I never be without the hands

That played with it and filled it with their scent.

I opened it and read it, and I found

That it had come to cure my stricken heart,

As though Moses had come back to his own,

Or Joseph’s robe had come to his father.

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