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10-TALE OF NUR AL-DIN ALI AND SON BADR AL-DIN HASAN.TXT-Part6_THE ARABIAN NIGHTS_Translated Works(翻译文学)-第2页

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my shop? O thou who art like a chestnut, dark without but white of



heart within! O thou of the like, of whom a certain poet said..." The

eunuch burst out a-laughing and asked: "Said what? Speak out, by



Allah, and be quick about it." So Hasan the Bassorite began reciting

these couplets:



"If not master of manners or aught but discreet,

In the household of kings no trust could he take,



And then for the harem! What eunuch is he

Whom angels would serve for his service' sake?"



The eunuchmarveled and was pleased at these words, so he took

Ajib by the hand and went into the cook's shop; whereupon Hasan the



Bassorite ladled into a saucer some conserve of pomegranate grains

wonderfully good, dressed with almonds and sugar, saying: "You have



honored me with your company. Eat, then, and health and happiness to

you!" Thereupon Ajib said to his father, "Sit thee down and eat with



us, so perchance Allah may unite us with him we long for." Quoth

Hasan, "O my son, hast thou then been afflicted in thy tender years



with parting from those thou lovest?" Quoth Ajib: "Even so, O nuncle

mine. My heart burns for the loss of a beloved one who is none other



than my father, and indeed I come forth, I and my grandfather, to

circle and search the world for him. Oh, the pity of it, and how I



long to meet him!" Then he wept with exceedingweeping, and his father

also wept seeing him weep and for his own bereavement, which



recalled to him his long separation from dear friends and from his

mother, and the eunuch was moved to pity for him.



Then they ate together till they were satisfied, and Ajib and the

slave rose and left the shop. Hereat Hasan the Bassorite felt as



though his soul had departed his body and had gone with them, for he

could not lose sight of the boy during the twinkling of an eye, albeit



he knew not that Ajib was his son. So he locked up his shop and

hastened after them, and he walked so fast that he came up with them



before they had gone out of the western gate. The eunuch turned and

asked him, "What ails thee?" and Badr al-Din answered, "When ye went



from me, meseemed my soul had gone with you, and as I had business

without the city gate, I purposed to bear you company till my matter



was ordered, and so return." The eunuch was angered, and said to Ajib:

"This is just what I feared! We ate that unluckymouthful (which we



are bound to respect), and here is the fellow following us from

place to place, for the vulgar are ever the vulgar."



Ajib, turning and seeing the cook just behind him, was wroth, and

his face reddened with rage and he said to the servant: "Let him



walk the highway of the Moslems, but when we turn off it to our

tents and find that he still follows us, we will send him about his



business with a flea in his ear." Then he bowed his head and walked

on, the eunuch walking behind him. But Hasan of Bassorah followed them



to the plain Al-Hasa, and as they drew near to the tents, they

turned round and saw him close on their heels, so Ajib was very angry,



fearing that the eunuch might tell his grandfather what had

happened. His indignation was the hotter for apprehension lest any say



that after he had entered a cookshop the cook had followed him. So

he turned and looked at Hasan of Bassorah and found his eyes fixed



on his own, for the father had become a body without a soul, and it

seemed to Ajib that his eye was a treacherous eye or that he was



some lewd fellow.

So his rage redoubled and, stooping down, he took up a stone



weighing half a pound and threw it at his father. It struck him on the

forehead, cutting it open from eyebrow to eyebrow and causing the



blood to stream down, and Hasan fell to the ground in a swoon whilst

Ajib and the eunuch made for the tents. When the father came to



himself, he wiped away the blood and tore off a strip from his

turban and bound up his head, blaming himself the while, and saying,



"I wronged the lad by shutting up my shop and following, so that he

thought I was some evil-minded fellow." Then he returned to his place,



where he busied himself with the sale of his sweetmeats, and he yeamed

after his mother at Bassorah, and wept over her and broke out



repeating:

"Unjust it were to bid the world be just



And blame her not. She ne'er was made for justice.

Take what she gives thee, leave all grief aside,



For now to fair and then to foul her lust is."

So Hasan of Bassorah set himself steadily to sell his sweetmeats,



but the Wazir, his uncle, halted in Damascus three days and then

marched upon Emesa, and passing through that town, he made inquiry



there, and at every place where he rested. Thence he fared on by way

of Hamah and Aleppo and thence through Diyar Bakr and Maridin and



Mosul, still inquiring, till he arrived at Bassorah city. Here, as




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