Thousand & One Nights: 81st Night

Badr al-Din Hasan, the son of deceased Nur al Din Ali was in the matrimonial pavilion of the daughter of the vizier of the king of Cairo city. The marriage was planned by the king to avenge his vizier who refused King's request. The king coveted the beautiful daughter of the vizier, but the vizier refused to oblige. The king decided to marry her to a hunchbacked of Cairo. Two demons, he and she found that Badr al-Din Hasan was perfect match for daughter of the vizier, and interfere to defeat the plan of the king. They clandestinely bring Badr al-Din Hasan to the pavalion. The bride and Badr al Din Ali happen to meet.

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The attendants presented the bride, in her first dress. As she swayed coquettishly, to the delight and amazement of Badr al-Din Hasan and every one present. When he looked at her cousin in her red satin dress, and saw her blooming face, he was rejoiced and thought the lines of poet:

Moon above reeds on dunes
She flamed in red attire 
The bounty of her cheeks 
The lips' wine to quench me.

They changed her dress and she reappeared in a blue one, she was shining like a moon, her jet black hair, rosy cheeks, smiling mouth, swelling bosom, firm wrists and opulent limbs. Poet's description of her was:

She came in lapis blue
Heavenly sight. A moon
On summer on winter night.

Then they clad her in another dresses letting down her long tresses, that as black.as deep night, veiled her face with her flourished hair, and through them her eyes pierced hearts with keen arrows.

She reappeared in her fourth dress like a rising sun.

Then they presented her in her fifth dress, which revealed her wonders as she swayed her hips.

They presented her in her sixth dress.

And the night ended.








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