The Message of Happiness

This is the "message of contentment," and it is - as it appears to its reader - a letter sent by "Abu Al-Ala" to some of his prominent contemporaries, in which he congratulates him on the arrival of the Sultan''s minister, "Shibl al-Dawla"(1), to him, and his coming to him.What we know - upon investigation - about the affairs of these two elders, or the two ministers, or the advisors, is more than...