Free Will the reward of Union. 
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THE QAZI 
 
 
If I had ever been angry with thee, O luscious 
buttocked tulip !  I would have forgiven thee for thy 
device upon this cow-bellied Qazi.  I am repaid 
pouch the hundred dirhams1 thereof.  For, supping 
with him, thou didst make him exceedingly 
drunk.  Then, introducing Abdullah Kaffur,2 that 
catamite of our grandfathers, thou didst present to 
the besotted fellow that poxy podex with its heaped 
haemorrhoids, like a well whose wall has been 
broken down. 
Now therefore that ass-membered one — Allah 
forget him !—is very sick.  Neither from his nose 
nor from his member will men be able to read that 
he is a Jew,3 O beloved one with a nose like a rose-
tinted ivory statue and a member like a young al-
mond tree in blossom !  for both are dropped off. 
Beware, if thou ridest in the bazaar, that thou 
dost not hurt the good Qazi, the just one, the in-
corruptible one, the wise one, the merciful to the 
afflictions of the poor,4 by stepping upon his nose 
or his member !  Beware !  sayeth El Qahar the 
seer. 
 
 
 
1.  Dirham — a coin, equivalent according to 
Darmstetter to about 13s. 6d of our money.  But 
the word is used very loosely to imply a piece of 
money, so that 100 dirhams here probably stands 
for a shilling or less.