{"book":"adl0710","page":71,"text":"افغانستان چهارم رشدیه ٦٨\n\nچنین موقع انکار نماید - آنرا بخود باعث شرم و خجالت\nتصور می کند.\nقدری پیشتر مورخ مذکور خیالات خود را چنین اظهار می\nنماید افغانان ساده و صاف گو اند - اگر چه رتبه بنظر شان وقاری\nندارد ولی اشخاص معمر را بسیار به نظر عزت و حرمت می بینند-\nو مجالس شان را بسیار دوست دارند - و ضیافت ہائے متواتر\nبرایشان میدهند رود و سرود را نیز خوش دارند - بعض اوقات\nدر یک دائره نشسته قصه ہائے قدیم و غزلیات را نیز می شنوند-\nبر کارهای گذشتگان و خاندان خود افتخار می نمایند - و شجرهٔ طول و\nطویل خاندان و قوم خود را از بر یاد دارند- در بین شان هر آنکه شجرهٔ\nنسب خود را تا شش و هشت پشت نداند آن خیلی بنظر تحقیر\n\n\"Hospitality is the greatest characteristic of the\nAfghans, it is with them a point of honour, and a\ngreater affront cannot be given to an Afghan than\nby inviting his guest to another dwelling. A man\nmay travel from one end of the country to the other,\nand the bitterest enemy is safe if he claims the protec-\ntion of hospitality. A person who has a favour to ask\nof any person goes to his house, and refuses to sit\ndown or partake of food until the boon be granted.\nThis custom is called Nannawati, and it brings\ndisgrace on a man to reject a petition under such\ncircumstances.","chars":1188,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0710/00071.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":169,"title":"Afghānistān : muṭābiq-i prūghrām-i chahārum-i rushdīyah wa dār al-muʻallimīn / bi-taḥrīr-i Muḥammad ʻAlī Khān va taṣvīb-i Fayz̤ Muḥammad Khān افغانستان :افغانستان","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0710/71","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0710/canvas/71","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0710/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0710_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}