The Story of the King and the Handmaiden
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Lesson 1: How the king fell in love with the sick handmaiden and made plans to restore her health.
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Lesson 2: How it became manifest that the physicians were unable to cure the handmaiden, and how the king turned his face towards God and dreamed of a holy man.
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Lesson 3: Beseeching the Lord, who is our Helper, to help us to observe self-control in all circumstances, and explaining the harmful and pernicious consequences of indiscipline.
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Lesson 4: The meeting of the king with the saint whose coming had been shown to him in a dream.
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Lesson 5: How the king led the physician to the bedside of the sick girl, that he might see her condition.
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Lesson 6: How that saint demanded of the king to be alone for the purpose of discovering her malady.
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Lesson 7: How the saint, having discovered the (cause of) the illness, laid it before the king.
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Lesson 8: How the king sent messengers to Samarcand to fetch the goldsmith.
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Lesson 9: Setting forth how the slaying and poisoning of the goldsmith was (prompted) by Divine suggestion, not by sensual desire and wicked meditation.