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Updated: May 5, 2025
Such be the seven stages. Quoth Bulukiya, 'Haply Jahannam hath least of torture for that it is the uppermost. 'Yes, quoth King Sakhr, 'the most endurable of them all is Jahannam; natheless in it are a thousand mountains of fire, in each mountain seventy thousand cities of fire, in each city seventy thousand castles of fire, in each castle seventy thousand houses of fire, in each house seventy thousand couches of fire and in each couch seventy thousand manners of torment.
And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say. When it was the Four Hundred and Ninety-third Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the Queen continued: "When Bulukiya related to Sakhr what befell him in his wanderings, he marvelled thereat.
Then they set on fruits, and when they had eaten thereof, King Barakhiya, whose estate was like that of King Sakhr, asked his guest, 'When didst thou leave King Sakhr? And Bulukiya answered, 'Two days ago. Quoth Barakhiya, 'Dost thou know, how many days' journey thou hast come in these two days? Quoth he, 'No, and the King rejoined, 'Thou hast come a journey of threescore and ten months." And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.
Hereupon the King, commanding a chair to be set for him by his royal side, bade him sit down and asked him 'Who art thou?; and Bulukiya answered, 'I am a man, and one of the Children of Israel. 'Tell me thy story, cried King Sakhr, 'and acquaint me with all that hath befallen thee and how thou camest to this my land. So Bulukiya related to him all that had occurred in his wanderings from beginning to end."
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the Queen continued: "'Iblis served God and became chief of Cherubim. So he stopped there and gazed with a marvel ever increasing till King Sakhr thinking him to be anhungered, bade bring him two roasted camels; and they carried them to him and bound them behind him on the mare's crupper.
So they carried him into the presence of King Sakhr, whom he found seated upon a splendid throne of red gold, set with pearls and studded with gems; the Kings and Princes of the Jann being on his right hand, and on his left his Councillors and Emirs and Officers of state, and a multitude of others.
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