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The Murder of a Foreigner
The abasi caliph, al muta d, became curious about this laborer. He ordered him to be beaten and asked how much money he had. After a short time the labourer admitted that he possessed a thousand gold pieces. The stoker was himself burnt in a furnace for his crime. This was one of the occasions when calipial perception caused an example which prevented people from committing crimes for years on end. Potential crim s were terrified that they might be discovered by some sort of supernatural prescience,. which their ruler seemed to have.
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