مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 309.e118.4

309.e118.4

فجهز من وصله صلة تعينه على سفره، وحمله إليه، فعالجه فبرأ فأجرى عليه رزقا واسعا، وأموالا كافية، ثم بينما هو مار بالخلد ، إذا هو برجل قد بسط كساءه وألقى عليه عقاقير كثيرة، وقام يصف دواء معجونا. فقال: هذا دواء لكذا وكذا، وعدد أسقاما كثيرة، وأدواء مختلفة، حتى لم يدع عارضا إلا ذكر أن ذلك الدواء شفاؤه. فتبسم منكة ثم قال: على كل حال ملك العرب جاهل، لأنه إن كان الأمر على ما يقول هذا فما الذي حمله على أن حملني من بلادي إليه، وأبعدني عن أهلي، وتكلف الكثير من مؤونتي، وهو يجد هذا نصب عينيه، وإزاء ناظره؟.

So he equipped someone to bring him a gift to help him with his journey, and had him brought to him. He treated him and he recovered, so he assigned him an ample stipend and sufficient wealth. Then, while he was passing by al-Khuld, he came upon a man who had spread out his cloak and laid many drugs upon it, and stood describing a compounded electuary. He said: 'This is a medicine for such-and-such,' and he enumerated many sicknesses and various ailments, until he left no complaint without mentioning that this medicine was its cure. Mankah smiled and said: 'In any case the king of the Arabs is ignorant, for if the matter is as this man says, what led him to have me carried from my country to him, take me far from my family, and bear the great cost of my provisions, when he finds this before his very eyes and in front of his gaze?