Original text - Engels - sufizm

Then the king called the fourth traveler and asked him. He said, “O Maharaja, down that path there were heaps of sand which the horse had to go over. At some places I saw that the tail had touched the sand and at other places the tail had not touched the sand. I saw impressions of the tail on the sand.I t was because of this that I said the tail could be short. We have never seen this horse. These are only our conclusions based on what we saw.”