Story LXXXIX
STORY LXXXIX
A Maghrabi[1] supplicant said in Aleppo, in the row of linen-drapers: "Lords of wealth! If you were just and we contented, the trade of begging would vanish from the world."
O contentment! Make me rich,
For besides thee no other wealth exists.
Loqmân selected the corner of patience;
Who has no patience, has no wisdom.
- ↑ A 'Maghrab' is any African in general, because that part of the world is to the west, i.e. Maghrab of Arabia, of Persia, and of Syria.
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