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  • Welcome, O chosen one, O approved one! If thou vanish, Destiny will come (upon us) and the wide room will be straitened.
  • Thou art the protector of the people. He that desires (thee) not hath gone to perdition. Nay, verily, if he do not refrain…!” 100
  • How the king led the physician to the bedside of the sick girl, that he might see her condition.
  • When that meeting and bounteous (spiritual) repast was over, he took his hand and conducted him to the harem.
  • He rehearsed the tale of the invalid and her illness, and then seated him beside the sick (girl).
  • The physician observed the colour of her face, (felt) her pulse, and (inspected) her urine; he heard both the symptoms and the (secondary) causes of her malady.
  • He said, “None of the remedies which they have applied builds up (health): they (the false physicians) have wrought destruction.
  • They were ignorant of the inward state. I seek refuge with God from that which they invent.” 105
  • He saw the pain, and the secret became open to him, but he concealed it and did not tell the king.
  • Her pain was not from yellow or black bile: the smell of every firewood appears from the smoke.
  • From her sore grief he perceived that she was heart-sore; well in body, but stricken in heart.