THE STORY OF THE PORTER WITH THE YOUNG LADIES
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The second saâlouk spends some wonderful time with the underground girl, but he makes a mistake and it ends up badly.
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ON THE ELEVENTH NIGHT
Sheherazade said:
The second saâlouk continued his story:
I told the girl in the underground everything that had happened to me, from the beginning to the end. And that really hurt her a lot for me, because she cried and said to me: “I too will tell you my story:
“Know then that I am the daughter of King Aknamus, the last king of India, master of the Isle of Ebony. He had married me to my uncle's son. But on the very night of my wedding, before I had lost my virginity, an efreet kidnapped me, whose name was Georgirus, son of Rajmus, son of Eblis himself! He picked me up and flew away and set me down in this place, where he carried everything I could want in terms of jams and sweets, dresses, precious fabrics, furniture, food, and drink. Since that time, he comes to see me every ten days, sleeps with me one night, right here, and leaves in the morning. He also warned me that, if I needed him during the regular ten days that he spent away from me, all I had to do, day or night, was to touch these two lines that are written there, under the cupola of this room. And, indeed, since then, as soon as I touch this inscription, I see it appear. This time, it has already been four days since he came, and he still has six days to go. So you could stay with me for five days and then leave a day before he arrives. »
And I answered: “Certainly! I can." Then she was very happy; she stood up straight, took my hand, led me through an arched door, and finally led me to a nice and pleasant hammam full of a sweet atmosphere. Then, immediately, I undressed, and she also undressed quite naked; and we both entered the bath. After the bath, we sat down on the platform of the hammam, she next to me, and she began to offer me a drink of musk syrup and she placed delicious pastries in front of me. Then we continued to talk nicely and eat of all that was the good of the efreet, his captor.
Then she said to me: "For tonight you are going to sleep and rest well from your fatigue so that you can be well rested afterward." »
And I, my mistress, wanted to sleep well, after having thanked her very much. And I forgot, in truth, all my cares!
When I woke up, I found her sitting next to me, and she was pleasantly massaging my limbs and feet. So I invoked Allah to call upon her all blessings, and we sat down to talk for an hour, and she said very nice things to me. She said to me, “By Allah! before, all alone in this underground palace, I was very sad and I felt my chest shrink, because I could not find anyone with whom to talk, and that for twenty years! But praise be to Allah! May He be glorified for having thus led you close to me! »
Then, in her soft voice, she sang me this stanza:
If of your coming
"We had been warned in advance,*
"For carpet at your feet, we would have laid"
The pure blood of our hearts and the black velvet of our eyes!
We would have spread the coolness of our cheeks
And the young flesh of our silken thighs
*As a bed, O traveler of the night!"
Because your place is above our eyelids!
On hearing these verses, I thanked her, my hand on my heart; and her love was embedded even more violently in me; and my cares and sorrows flew away. Then we began to drink from the same cup, and that until nightfall: then, that night, I lay down with her, in bliss. And never in my life had I had a night like that night. So when morning came, we arose very pleased with each other and blissful indeed!
So, I, all fired up again and above all to lengthen my happiness, I said to her: “Do you want me to bring you out of the earth and get rid of that genie like this?" Then she began to laugh, and said to me: "Shut up, and be content with what you have!" Let's see! this poor efreet will only have one day out of ten, and you, I promise you the other nine days every time! "So I, carried away by the ardor of passion, went very far in words, for I said to her: “Not at all! I will immediately destroy this cupola from top to bottom where these magical inscriptions are engraved so that the efreet comes within my reach and I can kill it! Because, for a long time, I've been used to making a game of the massacre of all the efreets above and below ground!"
At these words, and to calm me down, she began to recite these lines to me:
O you who ask for a delay before separation, and who find distance hard,
Do you not know that it is the sure way not to get attached, but simply to love?
Don't you know how to think and tell yourself that weariness is the very rule of all attachment,
And that rupture is the conclusion of all friendship!...
But I, without paying attention to these verses she recited to me, I gave a violent kick to the dome!…
When then, O my mistress, I extended this violent kick to the dome, the woman said to me, “Here is the efreet! It happens to us! Didn't I warn you? But, by Allah! you lose me! Yet think, you, to save yourself, and leave by the same place from which you came!"
So I rushed up the stairs. But unfortunately, because of the violence of my terror, I forgot my sandals and my axe. So, as I had hardly climbed a few steps of the staircase, I turned around a little to take a last look at my sandals and my axe; but I saw the earth half open and a large, horribly hideous efreet come out of it, which said to the woman: “Why this terrible shock with which you have just terrified me? What misfortune is befalling you?" She answered: "No misfortune, in truth, except that just now I felt my chest shrink from my loneliness, and I got up to go and drink some refreshing drink which made my chest expand, and, as I rose too abruptly to do so, I slipped and fell against the dome." But the efreet said to her: “O brazen libertine! how you know how to lie! Then he began to look in the palace, to the right, to the left, and he finally found my sandals and my axe. So he exclaimed: “Hey! what do these utensils mean? Say! Where do you get these human objects from?" She replied: “You just showed them to me! I have never seen them before! Probably they were hung behind your back, and you will have brought them here yourself. Then the genie, in the height of rage, exclaimed: “What absurd, shady, and twisted words! They can have no hold on me, O debauched woman!"
At these words he stripped her naked, placed her on the cross between four stakes driven into the ground, and, having put her to the torture, he began to question her about what had happened. But I couldn't bear it any longer or hear her crying; and I quickly ascended the stairs, trembling with terror; and, having arrived at last outside, I replaced the lid as it was, and I concealed it from view by covering it with earth. And I repented of my action bordering on repentance. And I began to think of the girl, of her beauty, and of the tortures inflicted on her by that cursed one when she had already been with him for twenty years. And above all, I was very pained at the thought that he was torturing her because of me. And, at that moment, I began to think also of my father and his kingdom and of the miserable condition of a lumberjack in which I was, and, while weeping, I recited a verse on this sad subject.
At this point in her narration, Sheherazade saw the morning appear and quietly fell silent.
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🤦🏽♀️ How I wish the second saâlouk had listened to this lady, then maybe their story could have turned out differently. Instead he allowed the blissful night he spent with her to get to his head, hoping he would have an eternity of it. Alas, he made things worse for the lady.
This shows the impatience of humans. When we want something, we want it immediately and if possible to last forever, whether or not it belongs to another person. On the other hand, I can say karma caught up with the efreet. He took someone's wife, now the saâlouk wants to take her from him!
Its saddening that the lady puts up with the efreet's torture and lies to protect the saâlouk. Is she in love with him, enough to withstand the pain and protect him or a response to the relief of relating with another human after a 20-year period of living without seeing one? The saâlouk is a coward for running away and leaving the poor lady to suffer at the hands of her captor. I'd hoped he would fight and try to save her.
The end of this chapter makes me long for the continuation. I hope the saâlouk will change his mind and go back to rescue the lady which leads to the loss of his eye. Thanks for sharing these stories.
There is no doubt that the second saâlouk had a great time in this cave, the way the woman inside the cave understood his grief and treated him it was indeed like dressing his wounds and it's not like he was the only one who needed her, the woman needed him too therefore, it will not be wrong to say that both needed each other and both helped each other in this.
(But one thing I don't understand is that everyone must be related to some King as it was said at that time that she is also the daughter of a King and the second saâlouk who is sitting with her and listening her is also the son of a King)
And as far as Iblis is concerned, iblis is the character of all the devils in our religion of Islam, and iblis is also mentioned in this story and I don't know whether it is mentioned in other religious books or not and if so, under what name. Well, it is a devil, I don't understand why it is doing rape of a human because as far as I heard, demons can only seduce humans and not have physical relations with them.
The story is getting really interesting because now we get to see that this second saâlouk who is a human how does fight the demon and defeat him and then what happens to the girl who was inside the cave after all this? and along with all that, how he became a one-eyed man? and how did he get to all of them? All these questions will be answered along with this story....
And I would like to ask you if you are well? because it seems to me that there may be a problem because your routine has changed in the last three to four days?
Yes, I am well, thank you.
The thing is, I have started to play a new video game that is quite addictive!
Oh that's great, glad to know that you have interest in video games as well.
This one is more interesting. Well, there are some people who you will be very lucky to meet some people. At the same time, they both needed each other. The man needed someone who can take care of him amd clean his wound. Also, the lady needed someone who she can talk to basically because she was always alone. Lonliness causes depression and depression kills faster then ailment. I hope you know this.
I guess the lady had to welcome the Saalouk well because of what she has always went through. This means that the efreet who kidnapped her always come to beat her every ten days. That is quite crazy. Only Allah knows why he kidnapped and and goes to treat her that way every ten days.
I hope you remember that the Saalouk who was telling his story was a one eyed man. Also, let us not forget that the efreet came to beat the lady. Who knows if it was when the efreet was beating the woman and the Saalouk tried to intervene was when he lost his eye. The efreet is known to be demonic and very powerful which means that it is likely for him to injure the Saalouk and that is why the Saalouk is one eyed.
The second saâlouk tells his story in which he spends a fantastic night with a marvelous woman, but as happens so many times to people, he does not know how to settle for the good that he has and aspires more if he measures the risks that this entails.
It is now the girl who pays the consequences of the saâlouk's act but we all suspect that he will also have to suffer the consequences of her greed.
This episode leaves me with deep questions as to what will happen next. It's disheartening to see what the young princess has to go through everyday — the loneliness, the pain and mental discomfort — it's quite sad.
But even fact that the saalouk attempted to rescue her from the mighty genie is an indication that he's a brave man. He must have been a really good guy for trying such. However, his effort put her in a really terrific situation. We still can't say if she would be eventually saved by the saalouk, or perhaps things might go awry.
I also do wonder if his eye loss was linked to the efreet, this part keeps me anxious and anticipating. I guess the next episode would entail a whole of details as regards our questions and uncertainties.
Beautiful 💯❤️
I think this passage is the question of power and its relationship to desire. The man's desire for the woman is clearly linked to his desire for power over her. He wants to possess her completely and eliminate any rivals for her affection. This desire for power is also reflected in his willingness to destroy the magical inscription that keeps the efreet away. However, the woman is able to resist the man's attempts to dominate her, and she reminds him that separation is an inevitable part of all relationships.
It must not be easy for her to be kidnapped like that.
But for some reason destiny took him to her, but he left with a lot of fear, now I just have to wait for that sad verse for the next publication.
I really liked this phrase that is not far from the truth
One of the most beautiful, sensual, and gorgeous stories in the world!!!! A story that is the allegory of the eternal storyteller who with his craft not only entertains, pleases people, but also saves himself. Thank you for sharing and remembering "The Thousand and One Nights". Regards
Missed your stories and I think I am a little bit late to this one: how many more chapters are on this in order to be able to catch when a new story starts?
The number of nights depends on the length of the story.
This one will last for around 25 nights.
With the way the lady talks, it seems she was happy with the Georgirus, son of Rajmus kidnapping her...she was too relaxed and felt at home.
Is it because she has been made to get adapted to the place or is it just that she really hated her would have been to be husband?
I can't stop laughing at this honestly 😅😅
*This is coming from the second Saâlouk that was overpowered and ran for his life few days ago 😂
Ouch.... People should always learn to listen first before they act and don't just act based in emotions alone... That was a costly mistake from him.
*What would be the lady's fate now?
Thanks as always for your wonderful piece