The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 · Richard Francis Burton translation

Note 429
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.

Part of the Azán, or call to prayer.

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…n flight) till the dawn advised them that it had come upon them mid-way, and the Muezzin began his call from the Minaret, "Haste ye to salvation! Haste ye to salvation!" [FN#429] Then Allah suffered his angelic host to shoot down the Ifrit with a shooting star, [FN#430] so he was consumed, but the Ifritah escaped and she descended with Badr al-Din at the place where the Ifrit was burnt, and did not carry him back to Bassorah, …

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