text:  "Praise be to God who allowed those contemptible creatures (mankind) to build such palaces and to inhabit them as a recompense in this world that the faithful might be stimulated to the path of virtue by reflecting that the pleasures enjoyed by their owners were still very far from giving even a remote idea of those reserved for the true believers in paradise!" "Abdurrahman " as Al-Makkari sums up his character "has been described as the mildest and most enlightened of sovereigns