Fantastic Nights Stories

Morning now dawned and Shahrazad broke off from what she had been allowed to say. Then, when it was the eight hundred and nineteenth night, SHE CONTINUED: I have heard, O fortunate king, that Queen Nur Al- Huda said to her sister, Manar Al-Sana: ‘You may have married without our knowledge, but why did you leave your husband and take your children away from him, coming back to our country? You tried to hide them away from us, but do you think that we don’t know? The Almighty God, Who knows all secrets, has revealed it to us, showing us where you stand and uncovering your shame.’ She then ordered her guards to lay hold of Manar al-Sana, which they did, tying her hands behind her back and loading her with iron fetters. They then hung her up by her hair and gave her a painful beating, cutting open her skin, before throwing her into prison. Nur Al-Huda now wrote to her father, the great king, telling him about Manar al-Sana and saying: ‘A human called Hasan has appeared in our land, and my sister claims that he is her lawful husband, by whom she has had two children