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Updated: May 12, 2025
"The mosque is beautiful," he said, "and the fountain in its midst is beautiful, but where is the glorious Nightingale Gisar? With the Nightingale Gisar singing beside the fountain, then indeed would the Sultan's third mosque be the most beautiful mosque in the world!" "Only tell us where this glorious Nightingale is," the brothers begged, "and we will get him if it costs us our lives!"
She clapped her hands and when her guards appeared she said to them: "Have this man executed at once and let his head be sent to the Sultan with the message: This is the head of a liar and a coward! Send me at once your son who stole my glorious Nightingale Gisar or I will march against your city!" The Sultan was greatly shocked to receive this message together with the head of his oldest son.
Now the Sultan's two sons knew that the Flower o' the World was fated to marry the man who had stolen from her the Nightingale Gisar, so when they heard the Princess's demand they were overjoyed thinking that she would have to fall in love with one of them.
Then they bade him farewell and flew off to their home in the desert. "My brothers will probably be here in an hour or so," the Youngest Son thought. "I had better wait for them." He felt sleepy, so he lay down by the roadside and closed his eyes. While he slept his brothers arrived and of course the first thing they saw was the golden cage and the Nightingale Gisar.
I'm your oldest cub. Then the Lion's old wife led him in to the Lion and he propped open the Lion's drooping eyelids and asked about the Nightingale Gisar. The old Lion shook his head. "I have never heard of the Nightingale Gisar. He has never sung in this wild place. Turn back, young man, and seek him elsewhere. Beyond this is a country of wilder creatures where you will only lose your life."
He looked once at the sleeping Flower o' the World and she was so beautiful that he dared not look again for fear he should forget the Nightingale Gisar and betray himself by crying out. At the head of the bed were four lighted candles and at the foot four unlighted ones. He blew out the lighted ones and lit the others.
The Sultan was grieved to hear this evil report of his Youngest Son, but he was overjoyed to have the Nightingale Gisar. He had the golden cage carried to the mosque and hung beside the fountain in the court. But imagine his disappointment when the bird refused to sing!
So the second prince was taken to the tent of the Warrior Maiden and she put to him the same questions and he fared even worse than his brother had fared. So his head, too, was sent to the Sultan with this message: "Send me no more liars and cowards but the son who actually did steal from me my glorious Nightingale Gisar." In despair the Sultan went to the mosque to pray.
The oldest prince answered the Flower o' the World craftily: "But how, Princess, if I did not steal from you the Nightingale Gisar was I then able to bring back that glorious bird and hang his cage beside the fountain in the mosque?" But Flower o' the World was not to be deceived by such specious words.
The Warrior Princess returned this answer: "I will spare you and your city provided you deliver me your son who stole from me the Nightingale Gisar. Him I shall have executed or let live as it pleases me."
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