The sage said: "If the matter is as you mentioned and narrated—that he is the one who initiated the Sun, established it, and managed it in its constellations without helper or assistant—then we want him to return it from its setting place, once it has set, until it returns to the dome of the firmament, and that all those absent and present in all horizons see it."

The boy said: "Have you not mentioned that Venus, Mercury, the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are bound to the Sun by pegs like the earth, forty times over? And that everyone in the upper and lower worlds is illuminated by its light? And that the earth is not fixed in its place nor stable except by the motion of the sphere’s rotation, and that if it stopped for the blink of an eye, the earth and those upon it would perish? If it has turned from its constellations, descending for sunset, who can return it to its place? You well know that if a great stone were thrown from a high place, no creature could return it before it settled upon the face of the earth. Who then can return the Sun, while all the planets are bound to it and the earth? Its stability is only due to the motion of its rotation in its constellation."

The sage said: "If he is the one who created it, initiated it, and established it, then he is capable of returning it."

The boy said: "What do you say, O King, regarding what your companion has said?" The King said: "I am upon what he says."

The boy said: "If I guarantee for you what you request from him, what will come from you?" The sage said: "If he does that, we shall answer him, obey him, and worship him."

The boy said: "Then let us place conditions and covenants between us and you upon that." They answered him regarding what he mentioned and agreed upon a specific time.

Then the King sent word to all his provinces and brought them together. When the people were complete, he mentioned to them what occurred between him and the boy, and they were satisfied and entered into a