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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 2 (of 6)

Note 315 — NUR AL-DIN ALI OF DAMASCUS AND THE DAMSEL SITT AL-MILAH.[280]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Arab. “Náihah”, the præfica or myriologist. See vol. i. 311. The proverb means, “If you want a thing done, do it yourself.”

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