Note 9 — NI’AMAH BIN AL-RABI’A AND NAOMI HIS SLAVE-GIRL.
Richard Francis Burton translation
Easterns, I have observed, have no way of saying “Thank you;” they express it by a blessing or a short prayer. They have a right to your surplus: daily bread is divided, they say and, eating yours, they consider it their own. I have discussed this matter in Pilgrimage i. 75-77, in opposition to those who declare that “gratitude” is unknown to Moslems.