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THE YOUNG BÉDAWY, ETC.
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But they said, "Surely we have pardoned desiring to please God the Merciful; and he who proposes this to himself must carry out his benevolence neither dishonourably nor injuriously."

The historian adds: "So I inscribed this in the collection of Marvellous Tales, and inserted it in the 'Accounts of Wonders.'"