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Updated: May 16, 2025
If he should say to himself, "My cousin Zubeideh has compassed the death of Cout el Culoub out of jealousy," or if love-longing should master him and he order to take her forth of the tomb, fear thou not; for when they dig and come to the figure, he will see it as it were a human body, shrouded in costly grave-clothes; and if he desire to take off the swathings, do thou forbid him and say to him, "It is unlawful to look upon her nakedness."
Then she opened the skirt of her shift, and taking up the ribbon of her trousers, said to him, 'O my lord, read what is on this ribbon. So he took it and saw, wrought in letters of gold, the following words, 'I am thine, and thou art mine, O descendant of the Prophet's Uncle! When he read this, he dropped his hand and said to her, 'Tell me who thou art. 'It is well, answered she; 'know that I am one of the favourites of the Commander of the Faithful and my name is Cout el Culoub.
'I know not her length from her breadth. 'And why? asked Jaafer. So he said to him, 'O Alaeddin, whence cometh this trouble in which I see thee? Hast thou gone in to Cout el Culoub? 'O Commander of the Faithful, answered he, 'what befits the master befits not the servant.
Presently he awoke and opening his eyes, shut them again and heard the damsel at his head say to her at his feet, 'Hist, Kheizuran! 'Well, Kezib el Ban? answered the other. 'Verily, said the first, 'our lord knows not what has passed and watches over a tomb in which there is only a carved wooden figure, of the carpenter's handiwork. 'Then what is become of Cout el Culoub? enquired the other.
Presently, Ghanim heard them mention the name of Cout el Culoub, whereupon his life came back to him, wasted and shrunken as he was, and he raised his head from the pillow and cried out, 'O Cout el Culoub! 'Yes, O friend! answered she. 'Draw near to me, said he. So she looked at him earnestly and knew him and said to him, 'Surely thou art Ghanim ben Eyoub? 'I am indeed he, replied he.
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