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The Arabic proverb

The Arabic proverb

The Arabic proverb, “If you commit fornication, commit it with a free woman, and if you steal, steal a pearl” مثل عرب إذا زنیت فازن بالحرة و إذا سرقت فاسرق الدرة فازن بالحرة پی این شد مثل فاسرق الدرة بدین شد منتقل‌‌ Hence (the saying), “Commit fornication with a free woman,” became proverbial; (and the […]

Showing that the lover of this world

Showing that the lover of this world

Showing that the lover of this world is like the lover of a wall on which the sunbeams strike, who makes no effort and exertion to perceive that the radiance and splendour do not proceed from the wall, but from the orb of the sun in the Fourth Heaven; consequently he sets his whole heart […]

How the Caliph’s officers

How the Caliph’s officers

The difference between one that is poor

The difference between one that is poor

Showing that, as the beggar

Showing that, as the beggar

How the Arab’s wife sewed the jug

How the Arab’s wife sewed the jug

How the Arab carried a jug of rain-water

How the Arab carried a jug of rain-water

How the wife specified to her husband

How the wife specified to her husband

How the Arab set his heart on

How the Arab set his heart on

The moral of the altercation of the Arab

The moral of the altercation of the Arab

Concerning the impropriety

Concerning the impropriety

On the meaning of “He let the two seas

On the meaning of “He let the two seas