![]() ![]() When he returned at his long-parted home, he started crying uncontrollably at its sight. He met all his friends, relatives, and elders, individually. The children who were born after Jaun had migrated to Pakistan, were recognized by him owning to their resemblance with their grandparents. Jaun also revisited the Baan river of Amroha where he used to stroll along with his friends as a child, and which can be seen flowing incessently in his poetry:Īlso, Jaun eagerly touched upon the tomb of his ancestor Amjad Shahuddin Shah Wilayat, which is near his house, and which is oft-mentioned in his poetry. Strangely, this tomb abounds in scorpions which don't bite!Īlif Laila is a popular book of stories created by Arab storytellers in the eighth century AD. When constant additions saw thousands of stories emerge out of it, it was given the name Alif Laila Wa Laila (One Thousand and One Nights). ![]() The entire Dastan encompasses of One Thousand and One Nights, of which some memorable tales include ‘Aladin’, ‘Ali Baba’, ‘Machhera Aur Jinn’, ‘Sindbad Jahazi, ‘Teen Seb’, ‘Samundari BuuDha’, ‘Shahr-Zaad’, ‘Hatim Tai’, etc. Legend has it, that the king of Samarqand, Shahryar, became outraged with the female gender because of his queen’s disloyalty. He would marry a new woman every day, eventually killing her in the morning.
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