سندبادنامه 239
English (machine translation) 239
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"I need your lips; what use is sugar? / I need union with you; what use is tidings?"
The woman took a step forward, and the grocer gave her some sugar. The woman tied the rice and sugar
into the corner of her veil and sat in private with the grocer. And truly has it been said that
"The dirham is the dispeller of care, and the dinar is the key to desires." The grocer had an apprentice,
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exceedingly unchivalrous and reckless. When he saw that the woman and the grocer were both busy in pleasure,
and the woman was heedless of her veil, he untied the corner of the veil, took away the rice and sugar,
and tied a piece of earth into the veil. When the business reached its end and the affair
of privacy was concluded, the woman hastily came out of the shop and set off towards home,
and laid the veil, still tied, before the peasant. The peasant untied the corner of the veil and looked,
and saw some earth tied in it. He said: "O woman, I see earth!" When the woman
saw that earth, she was astounded and thoughtful. On the spur of the moment she went into the house, brought out a sieve,
began placing the earth into it, and started sifting the earth. The man said:
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"What state is this?" The woman answered: "O man! Alms are incumbent upon you and me, for
a great calamity and a terrible catastrophe has this very hour been averted from me through your blessing!
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While I was walking to the bazaar to buy rice, a runaway camel, having broken its halter,
passed over me and dealt a hard kick to my back, and I fell down,
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- سندبادنامه — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian