So Joodar lived with the Moor till he finished his pilgrimage rites. Then the Moor gave him the seal-ring saying, "This will fulfill your all wishes. It has a servant Al-Raad al-Qaasif who will appear when you rub it and he will carry out all you will ask for." So he rubbed the ring, and the Jinn appeared before him. Abd al-Samad said to him - "O Raad, Now he is your Lord so serve him faithfully." He then dismissed him and said to Joodar - "Rub the ring and the Jinn will appear to you. He will obey you. Now you go to your country and take care of the ring, for by this ring you will surely defeat your enemies and be not ignorant of its powers." Joodar said "OK." The Moor said - "Call the Jinn and he will take you to your country if you say to him, "Take me to my native city this very day."

So he took leave of the Moor, called the Jinn and asked him to take him to Cairo. He took him to his house, in the courtyard of his mother's house and disappeared. Joodar went to his mother and she told him how the King had beaten his brothers, put them in prison and taken the two pairs of the saddle bags. He consoled her and told her not to worry about the past. He said - "Now I will show you how I bring my brothers here tonight." So he rubbed the ring, and as the Jinn appeared he asked him to bring his brothers from the prison.

He immediately sank in the earth and brought his brothers from prison. Joodar saluted them. As they saw their brother and mother they wept. Joodar said to them - "Don't weep, because it was Satan who made you to do this. How could you sell me like this? But I am lucky that I had to suffer less than Joseph whose brothers did more than with him than you did with me. Ask the pardon from Allaah, and as for myself, I have pardoned you and welcome you and no harm will come to you."

On the 619th Night

Then he comforted them and told them what had happened with him after they had sold him to galleys. He told them about the ring also. They said - "Please forgive us this time, but if we still follow our old conduct, do whatever you like with us." He said - "No harm will be done to you, tell me what the King did to you." They said - "He imprisoned us, beat us and took the two saddle bags from us." So he rubbed the ring and a Jinn appeared before them. Seeing him his brothers got frightened thinking that he would ask him to kill them, but their mother assured them of their safety.

Joodar ordered him to bring all the money of the treasury of the King and the two pairs of saddle bags he took from his brothers. He brought all the things within a few minutes. Joodar gave the treasure to his mother and laying the bags in front of him he said to the Jinn to build a large palace and overlay it with liquid gold and furnish it with magnificent furniture till next morning. Then he took out food and they all ate and lay down to sleep.

Early in the morning, Al-Raad came to Joodar and said - "Lord, Your palace is finished, come and have a look at it." Joodar got up and saw the palace. There was nothing like it in the whole world. He asked his mother - "Will you live with me in this palace?" and she answered, "I will." Then he rubbed the ring again and asked the Jinn to bring 40 white handmaids and 40 black damsels and as many white and black slaves. He brought the slaves from Hind, Sindh and Persia. Then he asked the Jinn to bring excellent dresses for the slaves, for his mother, brothers and himself too. The Jinn brought the dresses for all.

Now Joodar gave one part of his house to Saalim, another part to Saleem along with their slaves and he himself along with his mother lived in the new palace. Now each brother in his palace was a King.

On the 620th Night

The King Invites Joodar

Now the King's Treasurer wanted some money from the treasury but found it empty. So he gave a loud cry and ran to the King and informed him that the treasury got empty during the night. Although he saw it full the previous day, but on that day it was empty. The doors were locked and walls were unbroken, which meant that no thief had entered it. Asked the King - "Are those two pairs of bags gone?" "Yes." Then the King himself went to to see the treasury and found it just empty. He asked his other people but they also could not answer him.

At the same time the guards of prison came and reported - "I could not sleep the whole night for what I saw." "What did you see?" "I watched the whole night workers working building a palace and it was ready by morning. I asked about it, so I was told that it belonged to Joodar. He had come back with great wealth and he had freed his two brothers from prison." So the King asked somebody to look in the prison and he told him that Saalim and Saleem were not there. The King said - "Now it is clear that he is the thief who has freed Saalim and Salem, and that is Joodar. So send 50 men to bring him to me so that I may hang him and his brothers and seal up his all goods."

The Vazeer said - "Be merciful, Do not haste to make such decisions. Because who can build a palace in one night, as they say, none in the world can defeat him. Have patience so that I can give you some advice." The King asked him - "What should I do?" The Vazeer said - "Send him an invitation and I will make a show of love for him and will ask for his estate after which we will see."

So the king sent him the invitation for the banquet. Now the man, Othmaan, who took the King's invitation was a fool and proud. As he went to Joodar's palace he found an eunuch sitting on a golden chair at the gate. Although he saw 50 men with this Ameer, but he did not rise in his honor. This eunuch was none other than Al-Raad al-Qaasif to whom Joodar ordered to sit at the gate in the guise of an eunuch. The Ameer asked him - "Where is your Lord?" "In the palace." Still he did not rise from his seat, so the Ameer got angry and said - "Don't you know when I speak to you, you are not rising?" The eunuch said - "Be off and go, and don't talk too much." Now the Ameer jumped over him drawing out his mace, but the eunuch snatched his mace and hit him with the same mace four times. At this those the 50 men who came with Ameer also jumped over him, but he beat them all till they fled away from there.

On the 621st Night

Othmaan reported the King - "I saw an eunuch there who did not respect me, so I drew my mace at him, but he snatched it from me and beat us all." Then the King sent 100 men but they also came back beaten by him. Then he sent 200 men but they were also beaten; then he sent his Vazeer with 500 men instructing that he should behave accordingly.

Now the Vazeer wore white clothes, took a rosary in his hand and came to Joodar's palace and greeted the eunuch - "Peace be with you." "Peace be with you too, O mortal." When the Vazeer heard him say "mortal" he understood that the eunuch was a Jinn and trembled with fear. He politely asked him - "Is your Lord Joodar here?" "Yes, He is in the palace." The Vazeer said - "Go and tell him that the Sultaan salutes him and invites him for a banquet." The eunuch said - "Wait a while and I tell him this." So the Vazeer stood in respectful posture and the eunuch went to his master. He told Joodar everything that happened. Hearing that Joodar said - "Send the Vazeer in." So he told this to Vazeer.

The Vazeer went in and found Joodar seated in a greater state than the King. His King looked to him as a beggar in comparison to him. Joodar asked him - "Yes, What do you want?" He said - "The King has invited you for a banquet." Joodar said - "If he is indeed my friend, salute him and ask him to come to me." "Yes." Then Joodar rubbed his ring, and asked the Jinn to give him a fine robe, which he did. He gave that robe to the Vazeer and asked him to wear it and tell the King what he said to him. So the Vazeer wore the dress, he has never seen such a fine dress, went back to the King and told him what Joodar said to him.

The Vazeer returned to the King and told him what had happened. He admired the palace and said - "Joodar has invited you." The King asked his men to be ready on horses and asked for a horse for himself. And they rode off to Joodar's palace.

Meanwhile Joodar called the Mareed and said to him - "Bring some Ifrits and station them as guards near my palace, so that he knows my power." At this Al-Raad brought 200 Ifrits of great stature and strength, magnificently armed and fixed them at their places. When the King came and saw them, he trembled. Then he entered the palace and found Joodar sitting in such a state that he had seen no other King like that.

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