Note 1
The Book Of The THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT
Allaho A'alam, a deprecatory formula, used because the writer is going to indulge in a series of what may possibly be untruths.
…egends and wonders. Therein it is related (but Allah is All knowing of His hidden things and All ruling and All honoured and All giving and All gracious and All merciful [FN#1]) that, in tide of yore and in time long gone before, there was a King of the Kings of the Banu Sásán in the Islands of India and China, a Lord of armies and guards and servants and dependents.[FN#2] He left only two sons, one in the prime of manhood and…
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