The Arabian Nights
Excerpt
alf laylah wa laylah.
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionating, the Compassionate!
Praise be to Allah, the beneficient king, the creator of the universe, lord of
the three worlds, who set up the firmament without pillars in its stead, and who
stretched out the earth even as a bed, and grace, and prayer, blessing be upon
our Lord Mohammed, lord of apostolic men, and upon his family and
companion-train, prayer and blessings enduring and grace which unto the day of
doom shall remain, amen! 'o thou of the three worlds sovereign!
And afterwards. Verily the works and words of those gone before us have become
instances and examples to men of our modern day, that folk may view what
admonishing chances befel other folk and may therefrom take warning; and that
they may peruse the annals of antique peoples and all that hath betided them,
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