![]() ![]() The king looked at her for some time, examining her outward form very carefully, but no matter which angle he looked from, all he could see was an ugliness that became more and more despicable to him as he thought about how highly Majnun had praised her. His servants searched the encampments of several Arab families until they found her and brought her into the palace courtyard. ![]() The king was intrigued and ordered Laila to be brought to him. Then they will know the truth and, like Potiphar’s wife, I will be able to say, “This is the one you blamed me for.” Let your face shine once on those who scold meĪnd they will miss the lemons in their hands,Īnd slice their flesh, and bleed for your beauty. “My closest friends blame me for loving her,īut if they saw her they would understand. When the Arab king heard how Majnun had been driven by his love for Laila to forsake everything and wander the desert as a man possessed, he ordered his servants to bring Majnun to him, and when this was accomplished and Majnun was standing before the king in his court, the king reproached him, asking what fault Majnun had discovered in the human soul that he had chosen instead to live like an animal. ![]() Otherwise, I am only the earth that I am.” LOVE AND YOUTH Otherwise, I am only the earth that I am.” It said, “I was a loathsome lump of clay. “Till someone set me down beside a rose,” Like fine wine, your smell intoxicates me.” I held in my bath a perfumed piece of clay ![]()
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