The Story of the King and the Handmaiden
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Lesson 1: The king falls in love with a sick handmaiden and seeks her cure
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Lesson 2: The physicians fail to cure the handmaiden; the king prays and dreams of a friend of God
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Lesson 3: A prayer for grace to keep reverence in all states, and the grievous harms of irreverence
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Lesson 4: The king meets the friend of God shown to him in his dream
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Lesson 5: The king brings the divine physician to the sickbed to see how she fares
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Lesson 6: The friend of God asks the king for privacy to diagnose her
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Lesson 7: The friend of God discovers her ailment and lays it before the king
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Lesson 8: The king sends envoys to Samarkand to fetch the goldsmith
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Lesson 9: The goldsmith was poisoned and slain at God’s sign, not from carnal desire or corrupt thought