When it was the Four Hundred and Second Night,
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the youth then betook himself to asking pardon of Allah and to invoking prayer and praise upon the Apostle and the Lord of the Just and repeating verses of the Koran; after which he recited these couplets,
"O sire, be not deceived by worldly joys; * For life must pass, and joy must learn to mourn; When thou art told of folk in evil plight, * Think thou must answer for all hearts forlorn; And when thou bear thy dead towards the tombs, * Know thou wilt likewise on that way be bourne."
Continued Abu the Basri, "Now when the youth had ended his charge and his verses I left him and went home. On the morrow, I returned, at the appointed hour, and found him indeed dead, the mercy of Allah be up
