Wednesday, March 17, 2010

In (No. 94) The King And The Virtuous Wife the king visits another man's wife and asks her for a drink and realizes that he wants to sleep with her and lets her know. She responds by getting him to read of the punishment from Allah if he were to commit adultery and he repents and changes his mind. The wife tells her husband of this when he comes homes but he thinks that the king and his wife had sex, so he stops sleeping with her. At this point the narrator starts telling a story about how the wife's friends explain to the king that a good piece of land is not being sown but not being given to another to be sown either. The king approached the husband who explained that he did not want to compete with a lion (King) for the land.
The story the wifes' friends use to explain what is going on in her relationship seemed confusing at first. Upon further examination I'd say it was an example of Teological time since their dialogue with the king and then his dialogue with the husband was was clearly a means to an end.

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