Note 130 — NIGHT ADVENTURE OF HARUN AL-RASHID AND THE YOUTH MANJAB.[106]

In text “’Alà-Aklí:” the whole passage is doubtful.

[I would read, and translate the passage as follows: “Má tastahlí ’alà hazá illá shay lá tazann-hu allazí (for “allatí,” see Suppl. iv. 253) kayyamtíní (2nd fem. sing.) min ’alà aklí wa aná zanantu innahu man yújab la-hu al-kiyám; thumma iltifatat illayya wa kálat hakazá sirtu aná la-ghazárat al-thiyáb al-wasikhat min al-fakr fa-hal má ghasalta wajhak?” = Thou deservest not for this but a thing thou doest not fancy, thou who madest me rise from before my food, while I thought he was one to whom rising up is due. Then she turned towards me, saying, “Am I then in this manner (i.e. like thyself) a bundle of clothes all dirty from poverty, and hast thou therefore (“fa” indicating the effect of a cause) not washed thy face?” Or to put it in more intelligible English; “Am I then like thyself a heap of rags that thou shouldst come to me with unwashed face?”—St.]