Note 79
The Tale of the Wazir and the Sage Duban.
The Sun greets Mohammed every morning even as it dances on Easter Day for Christendom. Risum teneatis?
…up through the night in deep thought and, when broke the dawn and appeared the morn and light was again born, and the Sun greeted the Good whose beauties the world adorn,[FN#79] he donned his handsomest dress and going in to King Yunan, he kissed the ground before him: then he prayed for the endurance of his honour and prosperity in fairest language and made himself known saying, "O King, tidings have reached I me of what befe…
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