THE STORY OF THE PORTER WITH THE YOUNG LADIES
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The efreet finds the saâlouk, kills the girl, and changes the saâlouk into a monkey. But it is not the end of the story, obviously.
ON THE TWELFTH NIGHT
Sheherazade said:
The second saâlouk continued his story:
After which I kept on walking until I came to my friend the tailor. And I found him who, because of my absence, was sitting as if he were on the fire in a frying pan. And there he was, waiting for me impatiently. And he said to me: “Yesterday, not seeing you arrive as usual, I spent the night with my heart at your house! And I was afraid for you of a wild beast or something like that in the forest. But praise be to Allah for your salvation!" So I thanked him for his kindness, went into the shop, and sat down in my corner; and I began to think of what had happened to me, and to blame myself for the kicking that I had given to the cupola. Suddenly my good friend the tailor came in and said to me: "At the door of the shop there is a person, a sort of Persian, who is asking for you and who has your ax and your sandals with him. He had taken them to all the tailors in the street, telling them: "I went out at dawn to go to morning prayers at the call of the muezzin, and I found these objects on my way without managing to know who they might belong to. Tell me, you people, who owns it! Then the tailors in our street who know you, seeing the ax and the sandals, knew that they belonged to you, and eagerly gave your address to this Persian. And there he is, waiting for you at the door of the shop. Go out then, and thank him for his trouble, and take your ax and your sandals." But I, at these words, felt my complexion turn yellow and my whole body slump in terror. And, while I was in this prostration, all of a sudden, the ground, in front of my corner, half opened, and the Persian in question came out. It was the efreet! He had, during that time, tortured his young wife, and what torture! But she had told him nothing. So he took the ax and the sandals, and said to her: "I will prove to you that I am still Georgirus, of the seed of Eblis! And you will see whether or not I can bring you here the owner of this ax and these sandals!"
It was then that he came to use this ruse, of which I have spoken, with the tailors.
So he suddenly entered my house, from underground, and immediately, without wasting a moment, he kidnapped me! He took off and soared into the air; then it descended and plunged into the earth! As for me, I lost all consciousness. It was then that he entered with me into the underground palace where I had tasted voluptuousness. And I saw the naked girl, and the blood flowing from her sides! Then my eyes were wet with tears. But the efreet walked towards her and, seizing her, said to her: “O debauchery! here he is, your lover! So the girl looked at me and said: "I don't know him. And I've never seen him until just now." And the efreet said to her: "How? Here is before you the body of the offense and you do not confess!: So she said: "I don't know him." And in my life, I have never seen him. And it is not suitable for me to lie in the face of Allah!" Then the efreet said to her: "If you really don't know him, take this sword and cut off his head!" So she took the sword, came to me, and stopped in front of me. So I, yellow with terror, gave her a negative sign with my eyebrows (to beg her to have mercy) and my tears ran down my cheeks. Then she too winked at me; but she said aloud: “It is you who are the cause of all our misfortunes!" So, I, again made a sign to her with my eyebrows, and with my tongue, I said to her verses with two meanings (which the efreet could not quite understand):
My eyes know enough to speak to you for my tongue to become useless!
My eyes alone reveal to you the secrets concealed in my heart!
When you appeared to me, sweet tears streamed down, and I became dumb:
For my eyes spoke to you enough of my flame!*
The eyelids, by blinking, express to us all feeling;
And there is no need for the intelligent to use his fingers.
Our eyebrows take the place of all other things.
So be quiet! and let love alone speak.
Then the young woman understood both my signs and my verses, and she threw the sword of the efreet from her hands. Then the efreet took the sword and handed it to me and said: "Cut her neck, and I will release you and do you no harm!" And I say: “Yes!" And I took the sword, and I stepped forward bravely, and I raised my arm! Then she said to me, making me a sign with her eyebrows: “Me, did I infringe your rights?" Then my eyes were filled with tears, and I threw the sword from my hands and said to the efreet: “O mighty efreet, O strong and invincible hero! if this woman were, as you believe, of little faith and reason, she would have found the fall of my severed head lawful! But, on the contrary, it was the sword itself that she threw away from her. How then can I, in turn, find it lawful to cut her neck, especially since I have never seen her before this hour? So, I will never commit this action, even if you were to make me drink the cup of bad death! At this speech, the efreet exclaimed: “Ha! I see now the love that is between you two!"
And then, O my mistress, that accursed man took the sword, struck the hand of the girl and cut it; then he struck the other hand with it and cut it in the same way; then he cut off her right foot; then he cut off her left foot. And so, with four strokes, he severed the four limbs. And, me, I looked at that with my eyes and I thought I would certainly die.
At this moment, the young woman looked at me furtively and winked at me. But unfortunately ! the efreet saw that wink, and cried, “O daughter of a whore! you have just committed adultery with your eye!" And then he struck her in the neck with the sword and cut off her head. Then he turned to me and said, "Know, O you a human being, that in our law, the genies, it is permissible for us, and it is even lawful and advisable for us, to kill the wife adultery! Know then that this woman, I kidnapped her on her wedding night when she was still only twelve years old, and before anyone else had slept with her or known her! I carried her here, and I came to see her every tenth day, to spend the night with her, and I copulated with her under the guise of a Persian! But the day I saw that she was cheating on me, I killed her! Besides, she only deceived me with her eye, the eye she blinked while looking at you. As for you, as I could not ascertain that you had fornicated with her to help her deceive me, I will not kill you. But, all the same, I want, so that you can't laugh on my back, do you some harm that takes away your pride! But I'll let you choose which strain you prefer out of all the evils."
So I, O my mistress, was rejoiced to the limit of rejoicing when I saw myself escaping death. And that encouraged me to abuse grace. And I said to him: "I really don't know what to choose in the midst of all the evils! I prefer none!" Then the wrathful efreet stamped the ground with his foot and cried, "I tell you to choose! So, choose under which image you prefer that I bewitch you! Do you prefer the image of a donkey? No! A picture of a dog? The image of a mule? The image of a crow? Or the image of a monkey?" So I answered him, still abusing it, for I had the hope of a complete pardon: “By Allah! O my master Georgirus, from the posterity of mighty Eblis! if you grant me grace, Allah will grant you grace! for he will be grateful to you for the forgiveness granted to a good Muslim man, who has never wronged you!" And I continued to implore him almost prayerfully, standing humbly in his hands, and I said to him: “You condemn me unjustly!" So he answered me: "Enough talk like that, otherwise death! So do not abuse my goodness, for I absolutely must bewitch you! »
At these words, he took me up, split the dome and the earth above us, and flew with me in the air, and so high that I no longer saw the earth except under the aspect of a bowl of water. So he came down to the top of a mountain and set me down there; he took a bit of earth in his hand, grumbled something over it, growling like this: “Hum! hmm! hmm!" said a few words, then threw this earth on me, crying out: “Get out of your form here and take the form of a monkey!" And instantly, O my mistress, I became a monkey, and what a monkey! At least a hundred years old and quite ugly! So, when I saw myself under this aspect, I was at first displeased and started to jump and I jumped, in truth! Then, as it was of no use to me, I began to cry about myself and my past self. And the efreet laughed horribly, and then he disappeared.
Then I began to reflect on the injustices of fate, and I learned, at my expense, that in truth fate does not depend on the creature.
After that, I started to tumble from the top of the mountain all the way down. And I began to travel, sleeping at night in the trees, and that for a month, until I came to the shore of the salt sea. I stopped there for nearly an hour, and at last, I saw in the middle of the sea a ship which the favorable wind was pushing towards the shore, on my side. So I hid behind a rock and waited. When I saw the men coming and going and coming, I grew bolder and ended up jumping amidships. Then one of the men cried out, “Quickly drive away this ominous being!" And another exclaimed: “No! kill him!" And a third exclaimed: “Yes! kill him with this sword! So I began to cry and stopped the end of the sword with my paw, and my tears flowed abundantly.
At this point in her narration, Sheherazade saw the morning appear and quietly fell silent.
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Hehehe, I understand much well why he is feeling this way.. just like when you do something bad hoping that no-one will find out only for you to be called to answer for the bad you did.
Nice tactics by the Georgirus anyway.
I am really amazed by how well these two lovers could lie and make it look as if they are saying the truth... Wow, Professors in lying😂
But I guess the situation demanded for it... Let me read down and see if it favoured them.... hehehe
Ouch😢, it lead to her death... So sad about it.
Now here is my question,
Would saying the truth have saved her?
It's always in human nature never to settle for less, once there's opportunity, they will aim higher just like The second Saâlouk is trying to find way to gain total forgiveness even after causing the death of the lady😢
What a punishment! A monkey of all animals.
Now I can only continue to imagine how then he was transformed to human again😂
Thanks for posting
I knew it was the Efreet when the tailor announced his entry! The second saâlouk knew too that's why he had a sickly pallor or who else knew about his ax and sandals? It's sad how this whole incident went down. I didn't expect that the Efreet would torture the lady and kill her so. What a terrible death by dismembering! And what a mean Efreet! He has a bad temper and very unforgiving.
The second saâlouk is responsible for the poor lady's tortous death! 😡 That's the fruit of impatience and lust. Does he deserve any kind of mercy that he dared to ask the Efreet to not bewitch him? He's lucky that there was no evidence on which the Efreet could have killed him. Being a monkey is better than the lady's fate yet he still wanted a better life. And I notice he cries a lot. Well, let's hope his tears will save him from the men on the ship.
This chapter is touching and made me emotional as I read it. The poor lady did not deserve such an end. 😔 Thanks for sharing.
"Thanks ALLAH for making us human, after reading today's part of the story, everyone must have realized that how much of a blessing it is to be human"
I would like to say that a very bad thing happened to this girl, she was kidnapped at a very young age and now she is finally destined to die. I think the happiest moment in this girl's life will be when the second saâlouk comes to her and she sees any other human than herself in her life after so many years. No one can live alone like her.
But the love we saw between them was admirable, they spoke to each other eye to eye and neither of them killed each other, even they knew that if one of them had killed the other, his/her own life would have been saved. But perhaps in a short time they had become so close to each other that they did not have the courage to take each other's lives, even they should have to give their own life in return.
I feel so bad for second saâlouk after reading that he turned from man to monkey, I think every human hates death the most but if a man is given these two options, either he becomes a monkey or he dies, he would probably prefer to die (Indeed, he does not like death). Now let's see how he became a man from a monkey and how he became the one-eyed man.....
This is incredible. Yesterday, when you wrote the previous story, I was thinking that the Saalouk fought with the efreet and that was why he lost one of his eyes but I was wrong. At the same time, I already knew that even if the Saalouk decide to fight with the street, he will lose the fight because he is not as powerful as the street.
The efreet showed how powerful he was when he appeared in front of the Saalouk. Those demons must be very powerful. At the same time, I feel that he does not love the lady.
If he does so, he will not just kill her that way. At the same time, it shows that those demons take their cultures seriously and they always abide by it for him to kill her.
All I can say about him is that he is wicked.
Wow! This episode comes with so many fantastic and unexpected scenes. First of all, this efreet is really heartless and wicked. After suffering his prisoner for so many years, he killed her for something that wasn't even worth the slightest of punishment.
The part where the saalouk was turned to a goat wasn't anticipated by me though, it came as a surprise. This leaves me wondering: Did the efreet eventually reverse his spell? Did the men whom he had an encounter with have a role to play? Well, I really look forward to seeing the remaining piece of this puzzle.
In all, the tale of how he lost his eyes still keeps me alert. What an interesting episode! thumbs up 👍
"I meant to say a "monkey" not a goat😁. Typo errors I guess
Wow. What a story. I admire the young girl's bravery in spite of all that the genius efreet did to her, after so much mistreatment with the young girl, it didn't give him away.
I feel so sorry for her, how he was so badly treated, and then he cut her head off.
now i have to keep waiting to find out what happened to monkey, and how he became a man again.
The genie used his wits to find his lover's lover but when he found him he didn't kill him. After torturing the young woman, she gave him the worst of her deaths, despite the fact that she did not confess at any time, however, she released the saâlouk with the punishment of turning him into a momo.
I don't know which of the two punishments is worse, but I do know that this story does not end here because the saâlouk became a human being again and lost an eye. But that will be another story.
After reading today's story I would like to say that life comes only once and the way we have seen today this efreet has killed this beautiful girl. The good thing is that after such a long period of imprisonment, the girl has spend some good with saalouk and lovingly with the little time she had.
As we all know and we read and saw in the previous story that the efreet has a lot of power and can do anything. All of us should be grateful because God has made us human and given us brain and intellect to think.
This beautiful girl had no fault she has been killed innocently it is very sad and saalouk has been made a monkey. The age of this girl was only twelve years and at that age a person is not even sensible, he continues to do things with children.
Efreet had fallen in love with this girl and when he saw that she had spent the night with someone else and had fallen in love, he couldn't bear it and killed her. And that's the whole story that efreet is telling.
After telling all the sorrows in the end he turns Saalouk into a monkey, now the story has become much more interesting, now let's see how Saalouk who is has reached this house.