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. She hid them away from us both and told no one anything about what she had done, until this man, Hasan, arrived here.