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Resolver of difficulties and perplexities and Dispeller thereof,[1] Thou my sufficiency, Thou the most excellent Guardian, and I testify that Mohammed is Thy servant and Thine apostle. O my God, I conjure Thee, by his[2] glory with Thee, deliver me from my extremity.”
Whilst he was thus supplicating God and wringing his hands in the excess of his affliction for that which had befallen him of calamity, he chanced to rub upon the ring, and immediately, behold, a genie[3] rose up before him and said to him, “Here am I; thy slave is before thee. Seek whatsoever thou wilt, for that I am his slave who hath the ring in hand, the ring of my lord.”[4] Alaeddin looked and saw a Marid,[5] as he were of the Jinn of our lord Solomon, standing before him, and shuddered at his frightful aspect; but, when he heard the genie say to him, “Seek whatsoever thou wilt, for that I am thy slave, since the ring of my lord is on thy hand,” he took heart and bethought him of the Maugrabin’s speech to him, whenas he gave him the ring. So he rejoiced exceedingly and
