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66 THIRD DISCOURSE. ON ASTROLOGERS " I knew it, Sire," answerJj he. Said Mahmud, " Where is the proof?" So Abu E.ayhdn called for his servant, took the Almanac from him, and produced the prognostications out of the Almanac; and amongst the predicti9ns of that " day was written : To-day they will cast me down from a high place, but I shall reach the earth in safety, and arise sound in body.'' All this was not according to' Mahmud's mind. He waxed still angrier, and ordered Abu Rayhan to be detained in the citadel. So Abu Rayhan was confined in the citadel of Ghazna, where he remained forr six months. ANECDOTE XXIV. It is said that during that period of six months none dared speak to Mahmud about Abu Rayhan; (A) but one of his servants was deputed to wait upon him, and go out to get this servant what he wanted, and return therewith. One day was passing through the Park (Marghzdr) of Ghazna when a fortune-teller called him and said, " I perceive several things worth mentioning in your fortune : give me a present, that I may reveal them to you." The servant gave him two dirhams, whereupon the Sooth-sayer said, " One dear to thee is in affliction, but ere three days are past he will be delivered from that affliction, will be invested with a robe of honour and mark of favour, and will again become distinguished and ennobled." The servant proceeded to the citadel and told this incident to his master as a piece of good tidings. Abu Rayhan laughed and said, "O foolish. fellow, dost thou not know that one ought not to loiter in such places ? Thou hast wasted two dirhams" It is said that the Prime Minister Ahmad ibn Hasan of Maymand (may God be merciful to him!) was for six months seeking an opportunity to say a word on behalf of Abu Rayhan. At length, when engaged in the chase, he Found the King in a good humour, and, working from one topic to another, he brought the conversation round to Astrology. Then her said, " Poor Abu Rayhan uttered two such good prognostications, and, instead of decorations and a robe of honour, earned only bonds and imprisonment." "Know, my lord," replied Mahmud, -'for I have discovered it, and all men admit it, that this man has no equal in the world save Abu 'All [ibn] Sfna (Avicenna). But both his prognostications were opposed to my will and ; kings are like little children; in order to receive rewards from them, onfc should speak in accordance with their views. It would have been better for him on that day if one of those two prognostications had been wrong. But to-morrow order him to be brought forth, and to be given a horse caparisoned with gold, a royal iobe, a^ satin turban, a thousand dinars, a boy slave and a handmaiden."
. > J GOOD PREDICTIONS BY ILLITERATES', So, on the very 'day Specified by the sooth-sayer, they'brought forth Abu Rayhan, and the gift of honour detailed above was conferred upoi? him, and the King apologized to him, saying, " O Abu Rayhan, if thoi? desirest to reap advantage from m, speak according to my desire, not accprding to the dictates of thy science." So thereafter Abu Rayhan altered his practice ; and this is one of the conditions of the king's service, that one must be with him in right or wrong, and speak according to his wish 1 . Now when Abu Rayhan went to his .house and the learned came to congratulate him, he related to them the incident of the sooth- Jayer, whereat they w,ere amazed, (
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xiv TABLE OF CONTENTS ANECDOTE XVII
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