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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

The Talqani Jewel - Muhammad ibn Al-Hasan ibn Al-Layth Al-Trabulsi

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The King restrained himself from the astrologers and ordered the care of the children, that no one should be annoyed by their affairs. He sent word to all cities and regions for physicians to come. The maiden, daughter of the King of Kings, sent to her father informing him of the account of her children and what they were upon, and what had occurred to the astrologers of execution. She asked him to send physicians to her. No one described with the craft of medicine, possessing knowledge and wisdom, remained but that he came to the King of India. They looked at the children and prescribed treatments and medicines, yet none of them hit upon a cure, nor knew a healing for them.

When they were unable to heal them, they entered unto the King and said: 'O King, these maladies in these children are maladies that no creature is capable of healing. None shall heal them except the Creator, the Producer, Who initiated them, brought them forth, established them, and decreed them; He is the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the Sage of Sages, and the Sender of the Prophets. Know that, O King.'"

He came to them from where they did not expect

At that moment, the King ordered them to return to their lands, and they departed. Those who had come from the King of Kings returned to him and informed him of what they had seen and witnessed. Several years passed following this account, and it became the time for the manifestation of the Person who used to turn them away from Sun worship. People went out watching for it.

He emerged to them from the fissure through which the water flows from behind the Encompassing Mountain, in a ship. The King of Kings had people stationed at that fissure to guard whatever emerged from it of pearls, jewels, rubies, aloe wood, fresh fruits, amber, and other things. When the ship became visible to the people and the Person appeared from it—his face shimmering with lights—they were terrified

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