Note 459
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.
This sounds absurd enough in English, but Easterns always put themselves first for respect.
…vest?" Quoth Ajib, "Even so, O nuncle mine; my heart burns for the loss of a beloved one who is none other than my father; and indeed I come forth, I and my grandfather, [FN#459] to circle and search the world for him. Oh, the pity of it, and how I long to meet him!" Then he wept with exceeding weeping, and his father also wept seeing him weep and for his own bereavement, which recalled to him his long separation from dear fri…
Return to passage