bear in mind my injunctions anent Anis al-Jalis." "O my father!"
said Nur al-Din, "who is like unto thee? Indeed thou art famed
for well doing and preachers offer prayers for thee in their
pulpits!" Quoth Al-Fazl, "O my son, I hope that Allah Almighty
may grant me acceptance!" Then he pronounced the Two
Testimonies,[FN#21] or Professions of the Faith, and was recorded
among the blessed. The palace was filled with crying and
lamentation and the news of his death reached the King, and the
city-people wept, even those at their prayers and women at
household cares and the school-children shed tears for Bin-
Khakan. Then his son Nur al-Din Ali arose and made ready his
funeral, and the Emirs and Wazirs and high Officers of State and
city-notables were present, amongst them the Wazir al-Mu'in bin
Sawi. And as the bier went forth from the house some one in the
crowd of mourners began to chant these lines,

"On the fifth day I quitted al my friends for evermore, * And
they laid me out and washed me on a slab without my
door:[FN#22]
They stripped me of the clothes I was ever wont to wear, * And
they clothed me in the clothes which till then I never wore.
On four men's necks they bore me and carried me from home * To
chapel; and some prayed for him on neck they bore:
They prayed for me a prayer that no prostration knows;[FN#23] *
They prayed for me who praised me and were my friends of
yore;
And they laid me in a house with a ceiling vaulted o'er, * And
Time shall be no more ere it ope to me its door."

When they had shovelled in the dust over him and the crowd had