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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 5 (of 6)

Note 50 — HISTORY OF AL-HAJJAJ BIN YUSUF AND THE YOUNG SAYYID.[42]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

[The phrase is Koranic (viii. 24): “Wa ’lamú anna ’lláha yahúlu bayna ’l-mari wa kalbi-hi,” which Rodwell translates: Know that God cometh in between man and his own heart.—St.]

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