Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange (Penguin Classics) by Malcolm C Lyons
Author:Malcolm C Lyons [Lyons, Malcolm C]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780141395050
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2014-11-06T00:00:00+00:00
âBy God, lady,â I said, âit would be better to abandon this letter. Have you no fear of God here?â âAre you a messenger or a busy-body?â she asked, and I told her: âBoth, and I urge you for Godâs sake not to destroy that beautiful young man but to have pity on him.â âWhat is all this, Abuâl-Hasan?â she asked. âBy God,â I said, âI can describe no more than a tenth of his sufferings.â âIs this all for my sake?â 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: âLady, 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.â âAbuâl-Hasan,â she told me, âby 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.â
âThen she called for an ink-stand and paper and wrote: âIn 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 Josephâs robe had come to his father.
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