The sultan, therefore, took an aversion to this lady and would have had her put to death had not his vizier prevented him, advising rather that she be sent to Samaria, to her brother, Sultan Samer, with orders that she be well treated. Some time afterward forty-nine of his wives presented him with sons, each one as vigorous as a young palm-tree, but Pirouzè, the fiftieth wife, remained childless. The sultan calling to mind his dream when he awoke, returned thanks to Heaven, got up, prayed, made two genuflexions, and then went into his garden, where he took fifty pomegranate seeds, which he counted, and ate. He continually prayed to Heaven for a child and one night in his sleep, a prophet appeared to him and said: “Your prayers are heard you have obtained what you have desired rise as soon as you awake, go to your prayers, and make two genuflexions then walk into the garden of your palace, call your gardener, and bid him bring you a pomegranate eat as many of the seeds as you please, and your wishes shall be accomplished.” He was endued with all virtues, and wanted nothing to complete his happiness but an heir. T HERE formerly reigned in the city of Harran a most magnificent and potent sultan, who loved his subjects, and was equally beloved by them.
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