Monday, June 4, 2012

Danish--page 98

it  is  said  once  a  man caught  a  qamri  fakhta-dove  , the  bird  asked  what  he  intented  doing  with it, the  man  said  he  would  kill it  to  eat  its  meat


the  bird  said  its  meat  was  not  enough for  him, instead  the  qamri  would  give  him three  pieces of wise   advices that  woul  all his  life  help  him


agreed  the  man  and  re;eased  the  qamri 
the  first  advice  is  never  feel  sorry  what  you  lost


second  advice  the  bird  gave  sitting  on a  branch  of  a  tree -be  reasonable  and  practical  differentiating between the  possible  and  impossible


then it  was  about  to  fly  away 
the  man said  what  was  the  third  advice as  they  had  bargained


the  bird  said  if  he  had  killed  it  there  were  two  huge  precious  rare  pearls  in its  stomach he  could  have  sold  each one  weighing twenty  mishqal

yje  man  felt  a  sense  of  utter  loss
but nevertheless he  asked  the  bird  to  impart  with the  third  advice

qamri  said-it  is  unreasonable  , practically  her  own weight including  her  meat  wings  and  all  entire  body  weight was less than twenty  mishqal  so  it  could  not have    contained  more  than her  own weight  two  gems

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