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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1

Note 357 — THE TALE OF THE THREE APPLES.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Arab. "Zulm," the deadliest of monarch's sins. One of the sayings of Mohammed, popularly quoted, is, "Kingdom endureth with Kufr or infidelity (i.e. without accepting Al-Islam) but endureth not with Zulm or injustice." Hence the good Moslem will not complain of the rule of Kafirs or Unbelievers, like the English, so long as they rule him righteously and according to his own law.

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