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"Tell me, brother, if you and I perform our wedding on the same day and consummate our marriage on the same night and if your wife and mine conceive on our wedding night and at the end of their pregnancy give birth on the same day and if your wife gives birth to a boy and my wife to a girl, tell me, will you marry your son to my daughter?"

There is no power and no strength save in God, the Almighty, the Magnificent. I have taunted the one-eyed young men until I became one-eyed like them.

Better for me and meet to see you not, for if the eye sees nought, the heart grieves not.

Your gifts you lavished like the bounteous moon, And like the moon your fame did rise and grow. If moon I call you, no, the moon goes down, And if I call you sun, the sun sinks low.

“All this will be fulfilled, providing that you do not invoke the name of God."
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But in my excess of joy; I praised and glorified the Almighty God

For their misfortune took them by surprise, whereas I knowingly brought misfortune and sorrow upon myself.

"Whoever tells us his tale and explains what has happened to him and what has brought him to our place, let him stroke his head and go, but whoever refuses, strike off his head."

In love all are alike

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