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^- Ghayat AI-HaJdm ^
in his hands and he passes out again for a while and when
he wakes up the sheikh asks him again "what is wrong
with you? What happened to you?" and the boy said
"please I had enough leave me alone" so the sheikh told
him "let go of your own self because you are ignorant with
yourself, you have no luck in the magic world". Then the
boy wipes his hands without looking at it again and the
sheikh tells him that to have knowledge is to have
understanding and the sheikh advised the boy to let go of
this knowledge he has no understanding for its nature.
The people with this knowledge had their own
aphorism for almost everything that I have pointed out
earlier but 1 fell the need to mention some more of these
sayings so you have an idea about some of their wisdom-
One of the ancient savings was about a man that
approached Alexander the Great and showed him a ring
that he was wearing that had weird engravings on it and
that Alexander received the man holding a clear mirror, as
Alexander knew the power of the charms so he held the
mirror to reflect any effect the ring might have as it is
pointed at him. So the man was surprised with
Alexander's knowledge with the charms and talismans.
Another saying about Alexander was that he heard
about a snake that is capable of wiping out cows. So
Alexander ordered his magicians to make a cow that can
wipe out the snake and thev did what he wanted and the
charm they used on the cow was so powerful that it wiped
the charm of the snake.
Some of the other sayings were about Al-Habashi king
that had sent camels against his enemy and the camels
°aught the enemy and brought him to the king as a
prisoner.
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