Emeer

The sheikh replied: "Know, O Emeer, that this route is difficult, far extending, with few tracks."

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Then Abd-Es-Samad sat a long time repeating the praises of God, and reciting the Verses of Safety; after which he rose with energy, and called out with his loudest voice: "O Emeer, no harm shall befall you; for God hath averted from me the effect of the artifice of the Devil."

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Emeer Moosa advanced thither, together with the Sheikh Abd-Es-Samad and his chief companions, till they came to its entrance.

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And one of them answered: "I will ascend it, O Emeer, and descend and open the gate."

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The sheikh replied: "O Emeer, thus do I find it described in the Book of Hidden Treasures; that it hath five and twenty gates, and that none of its gates may be opened but from within the city."

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Then he said: "O Emeer, the easiest place in it is this place at which ye have alighted."

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Emeer Moosa said to the Sheikh Abd-Es-Samad: "What is this?"

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So the Emeer Moosa said: "O Sheikh Abd-Es-Samad, what are these people?"

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The Emeer Moosa then entered the gate, and with him half of the people, who bore their weapons of war.

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Greek; and the Sheikh Abd-Es-Samad said: "Shall I read it, O Emeer?"

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