Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
Aladdin is desperate and, once again, fate came to his help, in the form of the genie of the ring.
The genie could not bring back the palace, but he could transport Aladdin to the garden of the palace. And one servant of Princess Badrou’l-Budour saw him through a window.
ON THE THIRTY-SIXTH NIGHT
Sheherazade said:
And Aladdin went out of the city, and began to wander, not knowing what he was doing, through the countryside. And he arrived in this way on the bank of a great river, in despair, and saying to himself: “Where will you seek your palace, Aladdin, and your wife Badrou’l-Budour, oh poor? In what unknown country will you go to find her, if she is still alive? And do you even know how she disappeared? And, his soul darkened by these thoughts, and seeing only darkness and sadness before his eyes, he wanted to throw himself into the water and drown his life and his pain there. But, at that moment, he remembered that he was a Muslim, a believer, a pure! And he testified to the unity of Allah and the mission of His Messenger. And, comforted by his act of faith and his abandonment to the will of the Highest, he set himself to do his ablutions for the evening prayer instead of throwing himself into the water. And he squatted on the bank of the river, took the water in the hollow of his hands, and began to rub his fingers and extremities with it. Now, while making these movements, he rubbed the ring that the Maghrebi had given him in the vault. And, at the same time, appeared the genie of the ring, which prostrated itself in front of him, saying: “I am in your hands, here, your slave here it is! Speak, what do you want? I am the servant of the ring, on earth, in the air, and on the water!" And Aladdin recognized perfectly, by his hideous appearance and his terrifying voice, the genie who had once delivered him from the underground. And, pleasantly surprised by an apparition which he had been so far from expecting, in the miserable state in which he was, he interrupted his ablutions and got up on his two feet and said to the genie: "O genie! of the ring, O helpful, O excellent! May Allah bless you and have you in his good graces! But hurry and bring me back my palace and my wife Princess Badrou'l-Boudour!" But the genie of the ring replied, "O master of the ring, what you ask of me is hardly within my competence, for on land, in the air, and on water, I am servant only to the ring! And I am very sorry not to be able to satisfy you on this point which is the responsibility of the servant of the lamp! For that, you have only to address yourself to that genie and it will satisfy you!" Then Aladdin, very perplexed, said to him: "In that case, O genie of the ring, and since you cannot interfere in what does not concern you by transporting here the palace of my wife, I order you, by the virtues of the ring that you serve, to carry me myself to the place of the earth where my palace is, and to deposit me, without shock, under the windows of the princess Badrou'l - Boudour, my wife!"
No sooner had Aladdin made this request than the genie of the ring responded with hearing and obedience and, just long enough to close one eye and reopen it, he transported Aladdin to the Maghreb in the middle of a magnificent garden where stood, with its architectural beauty, the palace of Badrou'l-Boudour. And he deposited it very gently below the princess's windows and disappeared.
Then Aladdin, at the sight of his palace, felt his heart expand and his soul calm, and refresh his eyes. And hope entered him again with joy. And just as he who entrusts some sheep head to the seller of cooked heads is preoccupied and does not sleep, so Aladdin, despite his fatigues and his sorrows, would not take any rest. He only raised his soul to his Creator to thank him for his bounties and to recognize that his designs are impenetrable to limited creatures. After which, he got up and put himself prominently under the windows of his wife Badrou'l-Boudour.
However, since her abduction with the palace by the North African magician, the princess, in her pain at having been separated from her father and her beloved husband, and as a result of all the violence she endured, without yielding anything, on the part of the accursed North African, used to get up from her bed every day, at the first dawn, and spent her time crying and her nights watching, full of sad thoughts. And she neither slept, nor ate, nor drank. Now, that evening, by a decree of destiny, her servant had entered her apartment, to try to distract her. And she opened one of the windows of the crystal room, and looked out, saying: “O my mistress, come and see how beautiful the trees are tonight and how delicious the air is!" Then suddenly she let out a loud cry, exclaiming, "Ya setti, ya setti! Here is my master Aladdin, here is my master Aladdin! He is under the windows of the palace…
— At this point in her narration, Scheherazade saw the morning appear and quietly fell silent.
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