Night & Day

Raghib al-Isfahani narrates a Sudanese story:

رأى رجل زنجياً يفجر برومية فقال: يولج الليل في النهار

A dark-skinned man was with a light-skinned Roman woman, so someone said: “The night enters the day.”

[“Muhadarat al-Udaba”, p. 292].