Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
As soon as the Maghrebi got the magic lamp, he transported Aladdin's palace, with the princess inside, and himself to his country in North Africa.
Of course, when the sultan discovered the next day that his daughter has disappeared with the palace, he is furious. Aladdin is in big trouble.
ON THE THIRTY-FOURTH NIGHT
Sheherazade said:
And the eunuch chose a well-polished brand new lamp and hastened to take it to his mistress Badrou'l-Boudour, bursting out laughing and making fun of the North African's madness. And so much for the agha of the eunuchs and for the exchange of the magic lamp, during the absence of Aladdin!
As for the magician, he immediately began to run, throwing his basket with its contents at the heads of the kids who continued to boo him, to prevent them from following him. And, freed in this way, he crossed the enclosure of the palaces and the gardens and plunged through the alleys of the city, making a thousand detours so that his trace was lost for those who would have wanted to continue to pursue him. And, having arrived in a completely deserted quarter, he drew the lamp from his bosom and rubbed it. And the genie of the lamp answered this call, appearing immediately before him, and saying: “I am in your hands, here, your slave is here! Speak, what do you want? I remain the servant of the lamp, whether in the air I fly, or on the ground, I crawl!" For the genie obeyed indiscriminately whoever was the possessor of that lamp, were he, like the magician, in the way of wickedness and perdition.
Then the Maghrebi said to him: "O genie of the lamp, I order you to remove the palace that you have built for Aladdin and to transport it with all the beings and all the things that it contains in my country that you know, at the bottom of the Maghreb, among the gardens. And you will transport me there too with the palace! And the genie, slave of the lamp, answered: "I listen and I obey! Close your eye then open them, and you will find yourself in your country, in the middle of Aladdin's palace!" And, indeed, in the blink of an eye, the thing was done. And the Maghrebi found himself transported, with Aladdin's palace, to the middle of his country, to the African Maghreb. And that's it for him!
But as for the sultan, father of Badrou'l-Boudour, the next day, when he woke up, he left his palace to go, as usual, to visit his daughter whom he loved. And he saw, in the place where the marvelous palace stood, only a large empty land with the empty ditches of the foundations. And, bordering on perplexity, he did not know if he was not losing his mind, and he began to rub his eyes to better understand what he saw. And he noticed that with the brightness of the rising sun and the clarity of the morning, there was no way to be wrong and that the palace was no longer there! But he wanted to better convince himself of this maddening reality, and went up to the upper floor, and opened the window which was on the side of his daughter. And he saw neither palace nor trace of the palace, neither garden nor trace of the garden, nothing but an immense land where the horsemen could, had it not been for the ditches, joust at their ease.
Then the unhappy father, torn with anxiety, began to clap his hands together and tear his beard, weeping, though he could not fully appreciate the nature and the extent of his misfortune. And, while he was thus collapsed on the divan, his grand-vizier entered to announce to him, according to his custom, the opening of the session of justice. And he saw him in the state he was in and didn't know what to think. And the sultan said to him: “Come here!" And the vizier approached, and the sultan said to him, "What has become of my daughter's palace?" He said, "May Allah keep the Sultan! but I don't understand what he means!" He said, "It seems, O vizier, that you are unaware of the sad business!" He replied, “Not at all, O my lord, by Allah! I know nothing at all, absolutely nothing!" He said, "Then you didn't look towards Aladdin's palace!" He said: "I was strolling last night in the gardens which surround it, and I did not notice anything particularly singular there! except that the main door was closed because of the absence of the emir Aladdin!" He said: "In that case, O vizier, look out of this window and tell me if you notice anything particularly singular in this palace whose great door you saw closed yesterday!" And the vizier put his head out of the window and looked, but only to raise his arms to heaven, crying out, "Gone be the Evil One! the palace has disappeared!" Then he turned to the sultan and said to him: "And now, my lord, do you hesitate to believe that this palace, whose architecture and ornamentation you admired so much, is anything other than the work of the most admirable sorcery?" And the sultan lowered his head and thought for a long time. After which he raised his head, and his face was clothed in fury. And he cried, "Where is he, this scoundrel, this adventurer, this magician, this impostor, this son of a thousand dogs whose name is Aladdin?" And the vizier, his heart dilated with triumph, answered: "He's away hunting! but he announced his return for today, before the midday prayer! And, if you want, I take care to go myself to find out from him what has become of the palace and its contents." And the king cried out, saying: “No, by Allah! We must treat him like thieves and liars! Let the guards go and bring him to me loaded with chains...
— At this point in her narration, Scheherazade saw the morning appear and quietly fell silent.
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