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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 1 (of 6)

Note 500 — KING SHAH BAKHT AND HIS WAZIR AL-RAHWAN.[295] (continued 3)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Arab. “Musallà,” which may be either a praying carpet, a pure place in a house, or a small chapel like that near Shiraz which Hafiz immortalised,

“Bring, boy, the sup that’s in the cup; in highest Heaven man ne’er shall find

Such watery marge as Ruknábád, Musallà’s mazes rose entwined.”

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