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`` Now she might have sold the seeds , for they were beautiful as gems cut for a crown , and enriched herself ; but Hatim was all the world to her . They were for him , she said , and getting a brown nut such as washes up from vines in the sea , she cut it , put the treasures into it , sealed them there , and tied them around the boy 's neck . '' ` Thanks , O Solomon , ' she said . ` There is no God but God ; and I shall teach the lesson to my Hatim in the morning , when _ al hudhud _ flies for water ; at noon , when it whistles to itself in the shade ; and at night , when it draws a wing over its head to darken the darkness , and sleep . ' `` And from that day through all his days Hatim wore the brown nut with the three seeds in it ; nor was there ever such an amulet before or since ; for , besides being defended by the genii who are Solomon 's servants , he grew one of the exemplars promised by God , having in himself every virtue . No one braver than he ; none so charitable ; none so generous and merciful ; none so eloquent ; none on whose lips poetry was such sweet speech for the exalting of souls ; above all , never had there been such a keeper of his word of promise . `` And of this judge you by some of the many things they tell of him .