Two Ifrits came in the well and talked to each other. One said - "What to do with you? How is your case and how are you?" The other one said - "I am satisfied and I will never leave the Sultaan's daughter at all." The first one asked - "What can stop you from getting her?" The second one said - "I was driven away by some wormwood powder, scattered beneath the sole of her feet when she was praying on Friday." The first one said - "I am also happy that I have lots of jewels buried out of town near the Azure Column." The second one asked - "And what expelled you from there? Can a man see those jewels?" The first one said - "A white rooster in his 10th month slaughtered on Azure Column, can drive me away from there and break the Talismaan. That is when the jewels will be visible to all." Then they went away. Abee had heard their conversation and remembered it.

Next morning a caravan came and searched for water and came to the same well. As they let down the bucket, Abee seized their bucket. He cried - "Oh, Are you a Jinn or a man?" Abee said - "I am a man." And they took him out of the well. They gave him something to eat and after eating they again traveled and all of them came to a city. As they were passing through the market streets, they found them crowded and in turmoil. Somebody told them that the Sultaan had a daughter who is possessed and overridden by an Ifrit. The physicians are unable to cure her so the Sultaan cuts his head and hangs it up before the palace. Presently a student came there, accepted the task, but could not cure her, so the Sultaan will cut his head today.

As Abee heard this, he immediately came to the presence of the Sultaan. He was sitting on his throne and in front of him was that student hanging his head and the Linkman waiting for the Sultaan's order to cut his head. Abee Niyaah greeted him in hurry and said - "Please do not cut his head, just send him to your prison. For I will cure your daughter, and if I will not be able to do so you may cut my head as well his."

Hearing this the Sultaan released the boy and asked Abee Niyaah - "Would you go just now and release my daughter from the Genie?" "No, Sir, Not until the meeting day when people meet for congregational prayer on Friday." Abee Niyaah set the Friday to cure her, the Sultaan gave him a separate apartment and rationed him with food. Abee then went to Bazaar and brought him some wormwood powder for a silver Nusf; and when the time of congregational prayers came, the Sultaan went to his prayers instructing his servants to let Abee in his daughter's apartment. 

Abee went in and scattered the powder under the soles of the Princess' feet, and she was cured. She cried, "Where am I?" The mother danced with joy. When the Sultaan returned from his worship he found his daughter cured. They adorned her in rich clothes and jewelry and took her before Abee. The two embraced each other and the father gave lot many alms to poor. He released the student also.

Then he called Abee and said to him - "Ask a boon first from Allaah and then from me." He said - "I ask from you the girl from whom I have driven away the Jinn." The Sultaan asked his Vazeer in this regard. The Vazeer said - "Ask him to wait till tomorrow." The Sultaan asked him to come next morning. When Abee came back next morning he found the Vazeer standing with a rare jewel in is hand. He gave that jewel to the Sultaan and asked him to ask Abee to bring such a jewel as the dowry of his daughter. So the Sultaan did. Abee understood that the Vazeer was refusing to marry the Princess to him.

Abee said - "If I bring 10 of such jewels, would you marry your daughter to me?" The Sultaan said - "Yes, Indeed." The Abee went away to Market Street and bought him a white rooster in its 10th month, and whose feathers did not have a trace of black or red feather and was of the pure white color. Then he went to the town until he came to the Azure Column, he cut its throat upon there, that suddenly the earth gaped and there appeared a chamber full of jewels sized as ostrich eggs.

He went, brought 10 camels, each bearing two large sacks, filled them with jewels, and came to the Sultaan's palace. When Sultaan saw the 10 camels, he exclaimed - "By Allaah, This man seems to be mad, still I will go down and see him." So the Sultaan went down and opened the sacks which he found full of jewels greater and more glorious than the one that was with him. He got bewildered and cried to the Vazeer - "I think, no Sultaan in the world has such jewels. But tell me what should I do?" The Vazeer said - "Give him the girl." 

Then the marriage was performed. Abee Niyaah was appointed in the government for three days a week. He continued like this for a while. One day when Abee Niyaah was sitting in his pleasure, Aboo Niyaatain passed before him leaning on a palm stick. Abee Niyaah asked his people to bring him to him. He bathed him and gave him a new dress to wear and asked him - "Do you know me?" Aboo said - "No, My Lord." Abee said - "I am your companion of old days whom you had left to die in the well; but By Allaah, I have never changed my intent, and of all that I own in this world, half is yours."

Then they talked for a while, until Aboo (the double-minded) asked Abee - "Where did you get all this?" Abee replied - "From the well, where you threw me in." Hearing this envy and ill-will again rose in Aboo's mind, so he said to Abee - "I will also go there and what was given to you, will be given to me also." So he left him, went to the well, descended in the well and waited till  night fell. 

The two Ifrits came there, greeted each other and talked to each other. Both of them were weak, so one asked the other - "How are you? How is your health?" The other one said - "Since I met you last time in this place, I have been cast out of the Sultaan's daughter and since then I have not been able to approach her." The first one said - "I am also like you. My hoard has also been taken away from me, so I am also weak." Then the first one cried - "By Allaah, The origin of our problems is this well, so let us block it by throwing stones in it." So both arose and brought crumbling earth and pebble and threw it down in the well. When it fell upon Aboo, his bones were crushed to death.

Now Abee Niyaah was expecting him to return, but when he did not return, he went to to the well and found it filled up. He could guess what could have happened to him; his evil intentions had brought him this death."

End of Story No 67