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submissiveness verging on servility was no less a pleasure than being master to

a young; pretty and intelligent apprentice—and I grieved for those who would

never know this truth。

I  turned  the  pages;  gazing  hurriedly  but  with  rapt  attention  upon

thousands of birds; horses; soldiers; lovers; camels; trees and clouds; while the

Treasury’s  happy  dwarf;  like  a  shah  of  elder  days  given  the  opportunity  to

exhibit his riches and wealth; proudly and undauntedly removed volume after

volume from chests and placed them before me。 From two separate corners of

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an  iron  chest  stuffed  with  amazing  tomes;  mon  books  and  disorderly

albums; there emerged two extraordinary volumes—one bound in the Shiraz

style  with  a  burgundy  cover;  the  other  bound  in  Herat  and  finished  with  a

dark  lacquer  in  the  Chinese  fashion—which  contained  pages  so  resembling

each  other  that  at  first  I  thought  they  were  copies。  While  I  was  trying  to

determine  which  book  was  the  original  and  which  the  copy;  I  examined  the

names of the calligraphers on the colophons; looked for hidden signatures; and

finally  came  to  the  realization;  with  a  shudder;  that  these  two  volumes  of

Nizami were the legendary books that Master Sheikh Ali of Tabriz had made;

one for the Khan of the Blacksheep; Jihan Shah; and the other for the Khan of

the  Whitesheep;  Tall  Hasan。  After  he  was  blinded  by  the  Blacksheep  shah  to

prevent him from making another version of the first volume; the great master

artist took refuge with the Whitesheep khan and created a superior copy from

memory。 To see that the pictures in the second of the legendary books; made

when  he  was  blind;  were  simpler  and  purer;  while  the  colors  in  the  first

volume were more lively and invigorating; reminded me that the memory of

the blind exposes the merciless simplicity of life but also deadens its vigor。

Since  I  myself  am  a  genuine  great  master;  so  acknowledged  by  Almighty

Allah; who sees and knows all; I knew that one day I would go blind; but is this

what I wanted now? Since His presence could be sensed quite nearby in the

exquisite and terrifying darkness of the cluttered Treasury; like a condemned

man who wishes to look upon the world one last time before he is beheaded; I

asked Him: “Allow me to see all these illustrations and have my fill of them。”

As  I  turned  the  pages;  by  the  force  of  God’s  inscrutable  wisdom;  I

frequently came across legends and matters of blindness。 In the famous scene

showing Shirin on a countryside outing falling in love with Hüsrev after seeing

his  picture  on  the  branch  of  a  plane  tree;  Sheikh  Ali  R?za  from  Shiraz  had

drawn dis

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