Page:Tales from the Arabic, Vol 3.djvu/241

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Then he bestowed on me largesse and dismissed me, so I returned to my house and paid the poor-rate[1] and gave alms and abode in my former easy and pleasant case, forgetting the grievous stresses I had suffered. Yea, I cast out from my heart the cares of travel and traffic and put away travail from my thought and gave myself up to eating and drinking and pleasure and delight.”

  1. Every Muslim is bound by law to give alms to the extent of two and half per cent. of his property.