Durwesh accompanied

I asking why he did not frequent the city to relieve his mind? He replied, ‘ There dwell many of exquisite beauty: and where there is much clay, the elephants lose their footing.’ ” After making this speech, we mutually kissed and bid each other adieu. What benefit is there in kissing the cheek of a friend at the instant that you are bidding him adieu? It is like an apple with one cheek red and the other yellow. If I die not of grief on the day that I bid adieu, you will not consider me faithful in friendship.

A Durwesh accompanied me in the caravan to Mecca, on whom one of the nobles of Arabia had bestowed a hundred dinars for the support of his family. Suddenly a band of robbers of the tribe of Ivhufacheh attacked the caravan, and plundered it of every thing. The merchants began to cry and lament, and uttered useless complaints. Whether you supplicate, or whether you complain, the thief will not restore the money.

The Durwesh was the only exception; he remaining unshaken, and not at all affected by the adventure. I said to him, “Perhaps, they had not taken your money? ” He answered, “Yes, they carried it off, but I was not so fond of it as to be distressed at losing it. A man ought not to fix his heart on any thing or person, because it is a difficult matter to remove the heart therefrom.” I replied, “Your words suit my circumstance exactly; for in my youth I contracted a friendship for a young man, with so warm an attachment, that his beauty was the Keblah of my eyes, and his society the chief comfort of my life. No mortal on earth ever possessed so beautiful a form; perhaps he was an angel from heaven.