The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 · Richard Francis Burton translation

Note 478
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)

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Arab. "La'abat" = a plaything, a puppet, a lay figure. Lane (i. 326) conjectures that the cross is so called because it resembles a man with arms extended. But Moslems never heard of the fanciful ideas of mediæval Christian divines who saw the cross everywhere and in everything. The former hold that Pharaoh invented the painful and ignominious punishment. (Koran, chapt. vii.).

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…ter called Al-Raydaniyah.[FN#477] Then the Wazir gave order to take Badr al-Din Hasan out of the chest and sent for a carpenter and said to him, "Make me a cross of wood [FN#478] for this fellow!" Cried Badr al-Din Hasan "And what wilt thou do with it?"; and the Wazir replied, "I mean to crucify thee thereon, and nail thee thereto and parade thee all about the city." "And why wilt thou use me after this fashion?" "Because of t…

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Note 478TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)

Note 478
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)