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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Because I was set upon at the crossroads and beaten insensible and my clothes torn to rags. I was coming home with the Nightingale Gisar in my hands and I lay down at the roadside to rest while I awaited the coming of my brothers. When I awoke to consciousness the Nightingale and its golden cage were gone.
"I cannot tell you that," the Dervish droned. "You will have to go out into the world and find him for yourselves." So the three brothers returned to the Sultan and told him what the Dervish had said. "All your third mosque lacks to be the most beautiful mosque in the world," they told him, "is the Nightingale Gisar singing beside the fountain. So grieve no more, father.
"No," said the youth, "I shall go as a beggar or not at all. It is for the Flower o' the World to know me whether or not I am the Sultan's Youngest Son and the man who stole from her the Nightingale Gisar."
"I am looking for the Nightingale Gisar. If you know where that glorious bird is, tell me and that will more than repay me." But the wild woman had never heard of the Nightingale Gisar. "Only wild animals inhabit this desolate place," she said, "and a few wild people like me. The Nightingale Gisar is not here." "Then I must go farther," the Youngest Brother said.
Then the Princess stood up and took the Sultan's Youngest Son by the hand and presented him to the warriors and told them of his great bravery and courage and of all the perils he had endured in order to get the Nightingale Gisar for his father's mosque. "He came to me now as a beggar," she said, "but I knew him at once for truth was in his mouth and courage in his eye.
When their prayers were finished and they were passing out, the Dervish raised his sing-song voice and said: "Now indeed is the Sultan's Mosque the most beautiful Mosque in the World for the Nightingale Gisar sings beside the Fountain!" The Story of the Third Sister Who Was Brave and Good
Then they told him all how it was this Prince and not the older brothers who had found the Nightingale Gisar and how the older brothers had robbed him of his prize and beaten him insensible. When the Sultan heard how wicked his older sons had been his grief for their death was assuaged. "Allah be praised," he said, "that I have at least one son who is worthy!"
The Warrior Princess looked deep into his eyes and knew that he was speaking truth. Her heart was touched with compassion at the wrong he had suffered from his brothers, but she hid her feelings and questioned him further. "Then it was you," she said, "who really took from me my glorious Nightingale Gisar?" "Yes, Princess, it was.
"Because, O Flower o' the World, you were so beautiful that I feared, were I to look again, I should forget the Nightingale Gisar and cry out in ecstacy." Then the compassion in the Princess's heart changed to love and she knew for a certainty that this was the man she was fated to wed.
Then if he comes home later and says it was he who really found the bird no one will believe him." So they beat their brother into insensibility and tore his clothes to rags to make him think that he had been set upon by robbers, and then taking the golden cage and the Nightingale Gisar they hurried home and presented themselves to their father, the Sultan.
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