Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

by N.J. Dawood

Does not the proverb say: ‘All men envy, the strong openly, the weak in secret?’

‘Have patience, my friend. Allah in His great bounty may soon give you another wife as loving and as worthy as the one He has taken from you. May He lighten your sorrow and prolong your years!’

wtf he comforted a grieving husband by saying that

and that women cannot be truly happy without men?

hoeksss

“Forgiveness is never so noble as when extended by the mighty to the weak”?’

‘Marriage will not make you happy,’ I said, ‘for honest men are hard to find these days. You tried marriage once and nothing came of it but ruin.’

‘Do you love our brother so much? Yet if we went away or returned home, you would neither shed tears nor rejoice. Are we not your sons as much as he?’

ya kelakuan lu kyk anjg?!!