One Thousand and One Nights
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One Thousand and One Nights is a medieval Middle-Eastern literary work that consists of a number of stories being told by Queen Scheherazade to her mad husband, King Shahryar.
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[edit] Frame Story
- "[Scheherazade] possessed courage, wit, and penetration. She had read much, and had so admirable a memory, that she never forgot any thing she had read. She had successfully applied herself to philosophy, medicine, history, and the liberal arts; and her poetry excelled the compositions of the best writers of her time. Besides this, she was a perfect beauty, and all her accomplishments were crowned by solid virtue."[1]
[edit] The History of Aladdin
- "Who will change old lamps for new ones? New lamps for old?"
[edit] Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
- "Open Sesame!"
[edit] Tale of Zummurud and Ali-Shar
- When I was alive / I was dust which was, / But now I am dust in dust / I am dust which never was.
- On the black road of life think not to find / Either a friend or lover to your mind; / If you must love, oh then, love solitude, / For solitude alone is true and kind.
[edit] Tale of King Umar al-Numan
- Maslamah ibn Dinar said: "Each pleasure that does not forward the soul to God is not so much as a pleasure as a calamity."
- I hope that Allah will not make me immortal, for death is his greatest gift to any true believer.
- Each man envies, the strong openly, the weak in secret.
