The sketch about Afshar
youths
Sir
John Malcolm relates, that one day some Affshar youths having voluntarily
joined in the chase of a hare started by some gentlemen of the mission, a dog
belonging to one of them caught it after a hard chase over some dangerous
ground. The youth immediately tied it to his saddle. “Why do you do so?” inquired
one of the English party, “you can’t eat it, you know it is mukrooh
(abominable) to a Mussulman.”― “Not eat it,” said he, “do you think I hazarded
my life, and half-killed my horse and dog, to be deterred from eating this hare
by what some ass of a mullah has said. I would eat his father,” added he
laughing, and rode off with his prize.
J.B. Fraser — An historical and descriptive account of
Persia (1834)
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