The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-16

moved him out OF the way. Soon after this.
as ne was rubbing his aching shoulders.
mourning his hard lot, something SHINING
caught his eye. He eagerly seized it /: #
turned out to be diamond of great value.
AS he was examining it, he was arrested bv
, some officers. The diamond BELONGED to
the Cadee whose fall he had occasioned.
Being carried before him he was accused
OF stealing it. Azem protested his inno-
cence vehemently, but nothing answered /:
g the Cadee saw the very thief in his looks.
His rags, in the eye of that officer. bespoke
the knave. Poverty aEtOays looks supic;ous,
and no guilt so conspicuous as that in RAGS.
The trial finished, Azem was condemned
to lose his right hand. In the bitterness of
his soul he cursed his day, and in his
anathamas he forgot not the unjust iudre
Being overheard, one said, course Won the
Cadee" The Cadee on this being com
passionate man, to give him useful lesson,
IN addition to his sentence ordered his ears
to he cropped, and his tongue to be slit.
=" No doubt" said the Cadee, "my instruc
ton will sink deep in his SOUL"
At the place of execution he suffered
the whole Of the sentence in the presence
ofanumerous and highly delighted audience.
After the multitude had dispersed, some
humane Dervises took him under their pro-
lection until he was healed; when to BEG
again was his lot. 1t happened on GER
tam day, whilst he was in a crowd. that
robbery took place and each suspicious
person was seized and none were more
strongly suspected than the ragged Azem.
The thief, who committed the robbery was
a shrewd nave. Seeing what would come
10 pass, he cunnlngly contrived to put the
purse, the thing stolen, into the bag of Azem.
where 1t was found, and he was carried be-
tore the Judge, who was the same Cadee
mat had recently condemned him. The
Cadee, ON seeing him, smiled. "Surely
this fellow" said he, Stoves me much. or
mates his limbs more, or he would not give
me such frequent calls"
On entering the hall of Judgment Azem
cried Justice, Allah in mercy give me
but justice" On hearing the evidence the
Cadee condemned him to lose his other
hand, and to be scourged and branded
Then turning to the executioner, he said.
=" remember when you scourge him, that he
called on Allah for justice, and NAV he
strengthen YOU" Azem once more suffer |
ed, and at every lash he in truth thought
that Allah had added strength to his tor
! mentors arm. The whole sentence being
executed, the kind Dervices took him asain
to their care, and after long protracted mis-
cry, he was once more thrown on the wide
world, poor and friendless, and worn down
by affection. With labor almost super-hu- |
man he gained his home. Here, new mis-
fortunes attended him. He found his wife !
brother disowned him, and his childreeinS, |
long neglected, were only known by their
vices. To add new poignancy to his grief,
he met Zoe, his beauteous wife. Caught
by surprise, she gave one look of recogni-
ton, and another that said be gone and
hide thy squalid form, and never let me see
! you more. The cup was now full: the last
drop of misery had fallen into the chalice.
Azem raised his eye to heaven: not word
passed his lip. Crossing his mutilated
I limbs on his breast, with an eye stony with
despair, he sought the pool of Merazim.
| For the last time he called on Allah, and
bent himself for the fatal plunge, when he
felt himself withheld by an irresistible
power.
A voice Numbered in Azem's ear, {" is this
your faith % On turning he found himself
in the presence of being whose eye daz-
zled like the sun, and whose almost trans
parent form glowed in its lustre like the tai
isman of Raschad. The spirit spoke and
said 81 am Zadok the angel of instruction.
Your aims are remembered and your good
deeds are pictured on the storied walls Of
Arassam. Still, your pride has dimmed their
lustre, and am sent to pour on your dark
ened soul the light of wisdom. To your
eye, suffering was the reward of crime or of
!, folly. As a superior, you dispensed your
bounty You trod on man, and in the pride
and Prosperity of your heart you felt above
I mortals, blessing Allah that your virtues
raised YOU above them. Affection has now
tried you, and you are found wanting. The
loss Of wealth Allah willed ingratitude of
: friends was not your crime; the vices Of
your children created by your absence can
: kered not your virtues, for you were tread
ing the paths of duty; and the desertion of
despair. You should not have attempted,
; of the silent dead, over which hangs dark
ness, until Heaven removes the veil: and
had not mercy stayed you from *Seerath,
you would have fallen, and you would have
been numbered in the dread abode of Ebis.
"Chld of folly hear the words of Ia
dok. Misfortune is the parent of many vir-
tues laitn, iorIlIuue, HumlllCy, ana forgive
ness, are all her children and heaven
smiles not OH a fairer object than that man
who in the darkest day finds by the aid of
faith all light within. The storms of the
moral, like those of the natural, world tend
= to purify. When the tempest of atfiiction
breaks on the soul, it cleanses the heart I'M
til it is as pure as that Of. Mahommed after
the angel Gabriel had pressed from it the
; last black drop of frail mortality. Allah's
mercy gives you again to the world il
; prosperous, be humbly bountiful; if in mer-
cy you are afflicted, bend in cheerful resig-
9 nation"
: Having thus spoken, the angel spread