Note 484
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)
Alluding to the phrase "Al-safar zafar" = voyaging is victory (Pilgrimage i., 127).
…and whatso had betided him in his going and coming. So the Wazir told him all that had passed from first to last and the Sultan said, "Thanks be to Allah for thy victory [FN#484] and the winning of thy wish and thy safe return to thy children and thy people! And now I needs must see the son of thy brother, Hasan of Bassorah, so bring him to the audience-hall to-morrow." Shams al-Din replied, "Thy slave shall stand in thy prese…
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