Abu Al-Aswad bought a native born slave girl, who was blind of an eye, and she pleased him; but his people decried her to him; at which he wondered and, turning the palms of his hands upwards, recited these two couplets,

"They find me fault with her where I default never find, Save Perhaps that a speck in either eye may show: But if her eyes have fault, of fault her form has none, Slim built above the waist and heavily made below."

And this is also told of

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