Famous for his exquisite style, Jahiz said:
“One day, when I was standing leaning near the door of my house, a woman came up to me and said:
- I have a favor to ask you. Please don't refuse.
“Speak,” I told her. – What is your request?
“Follow me,” she replied.
Together with her I went to the goldsmith. When we entered the workshop, the woman said to him:
- Like this one - and went on her way.
Then I asked the master what her words meant, and he told me that this woman brought a precious stone and said:
- Engrave the image of Satan on it.
I answered her:
- I have never seen Satan and I don’t know what he looks like. Then she brought you and said:
“Like this one.”
The fact is that Jahiz's appearance did not at all correspond to the refined style of his writing and his scholarship.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru