Nur al-Huda gave this letter to a courier, who took it to the king. When he read it, his anger with Manar Al-Sana boiled over and he sent a reply to Nur al-Huda telling her that he entrusted the matter to her, giving her power of life or death over her sister. ‘If things are as you say,’ he wrote, ‘then put her to death and do not consult me again about her.’ When the letter reached Nur al-Huda and she had read it, she sent for Manar al-Sana, who was brought before her, bloodstained, tied with her own hair, loaded with heavy shackles of iron and clothed in a hair shirt. She stood there in this ignominious plight and when she saw herself disgraced and humiliated, she thought of her past glory and recited these lines with bitter tears: Lord, my enemies are trying to destroy me, Thinking that I shall not escape them