From the rahmani or sailing instruction known as Fa’ida of the Kitab al-Fawa’id by the great 15th century mu'allim — navigator — and poet, Ahmad Bin Majid, warning of the intensity of the South-West Monsoon during summer in the Arabian Gulf:
"Intelligent men never make this journey during the three months when the Dahur is at full strength for then it is a gamble…For these ninety days the sea is closed and he who would cross it deserves to be unhappy. From the agony of loneliness and remorse, so much anxiety and suffering.“
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