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. She hid them away from us both and told no one anything about what she had done, until this man, Hasan, arrived here. Then she said that she married him and stayed with him for a long time, before taking her children and leaving without his knowledge. She told his mother to tell him that, if he felt a longing for her, he was to come to the islands of Waq. I detained Hasan here and sent the old woman, Shawahi, to tell my sister to come to me with the children, and she made her preparations and came.