Note 366
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.
Bismillah here means "Thou art welcome to it."
…f off a buyer, ask him high price and higher; or as did a man who, they say, went to a friend and asked something of him being in necessity and was answered, 'Bismillah, [FN#366] in the name of Allah, I will do all what thou requirest but come to-morrow!' Whereupon the other replied in this verse:—
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