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|f The Umayyad caliph Abdelmalek Ben Marwan sent a person named Taleb bin Sahl to Governor Musa Ibn Nusayr, asking him for a bottle of devils since he had heard something about it in a gathering of Anas and desired to see what he heard to ascertain it. He took Musa Ibn Nusayr as a guide, but he was unable to know the locations of the bottles. He then took the help of a man who had experience and was called Abdul Samad. The latter told him that the bottles are found in the desert in a city called "the city of copper," a mythical city that has been gone for twenty thousand years, and no one has visited it, nor has anyone returned from it. The three decided to go there, taking the supplies, weapons, caution, and shrewdness with them. Upon arrival, they found a dead city, people in the streets as they were in their daily life practices, walking, sellers, soldiers, women, children, men, a queen on her throne, while soldiers, guards, and police officers were around her. However, everyone was frozen, like a dead in a living picture or as a living person in a dead picture. They threw their nets in the lake and caught a bottle, but they did not take its demon out, fearing his power and exercising extra caution. They contacted him, and the demon tried to convince them to try to get him out, promising them that he would bring them what they desired. When the three did not listen to him, he told them his story. He was a demon owned by Queen Termzin for twenty thousand years. She used his power to extend her authority over people and conquer them, refusing their freedom to express or object to the misconducts in governance and ruling. However, she went to the limits of infidelity by committing a sin that could not be overlooked. He imposed upon her the enchanted death, and she remained as the three saw her during all this period. In order to make them believe, he promised them to revive the last day of the Queen so that they could see what happened and be sure of his truthfulness and get him out. \nUpon their return, the three saw the wonder, a strange city; the woman acting like a Muslim man. The conclusion of what they saw differed from what they had promised in their time, but the one thing that baffled them was the announcement of Queen Termzin that the next day she was determined to announce the ceremonies of the Deifying Coronation. Musa bin Nusayr could not control himself in front of this infidelity, and he rejected it and urged people to refuse. Some opposing young man pulled him into the jungle, so he joined the revolutionary opposition group at the time. People thought of Abdul Samad as a fortuneteller, and this news spread among the people until it reached the Queen. She summoned him in order to ask him about the fate of her life after the coronation. At the same time, the Queen's female servant calls Abu Talib bin Sahl (a handsome young man and one among the three) to meet the Queen, who, upon seeing him, admired his eminence. The two exchange their feelings. Abu Taleb took the opportunity to try to reject what she intended to do, assuring her the seriousness of what she intends to do, but she is rigid on her stand like a rock. The only thing that stops her from abusing Ibn Sahl is her love and admiration for him. After meeting him, she calls Abdul Samad and asks him, and despite him denying that he is a fortuneteller, insists that he inform her about her unseen future. He points out to her that what lies in the unseen is completely opposite to what she is expecting and that death is on her lookout. He advises her to refrain from what she intends to do. She accuses him of conspiracy and threatens to kill him tomorrow after the coronation ceremony. During her speech, the soldiers bring Musa bin Nusayr along with the young man. She accuses him of conspiracy against her. He confronts her by saying that she is an infidel and that she surely is moving towards her death because of the consequences of what she is about to do; deifying herself.\nSeeing her insistence and arrogance (and that she is) accusing the three of espionage and conspiracy and (that they are) trying to overthrow from the throne; they confess to her the reality and tell her what the demon had told. She gets surprised and denies that it happened. She calls the demon, and she asks him. He answers in denial and assures her of his loyalty. This surprises the three. \nIn the penultimate scene, the three see the city dead. They ask the demon about the reason for his denial. He says, "Had I not denied, it would have been impossible to destroy her, and there would have been a city cursed that would have been destroyed by her injustice, and the life between her and our world would have continued for twenty thousand years. By my life, that would have been bad from the death itself." They are convinced of what he did, and he asks them, while he has denied his sin, to release him. But they are obedient to their ruler/ and insist on taking him to Caliph Abdul Malik bin Marwan. He says to them: "No individual has been imposed upon me, but he made me a blessing for him and his loved ones, and a curse on millions. Believe me that demons have inflicted evil in the implementation of the will of a human being." Abdul Samad advises for his release, and the demon asks them to inform their ruler that whoever rules by faith (I'man) does not need the devil. With this advice, they release him. \nThis abstract translated by Dar AlMandumah Inc. 2021
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