1. I never know why men come backCopy !req
2. From seaCopy !req
3. The sea is cruel
but the sea is cleanCopy !req
4. The cause of this vast purityCopy !req
5. Must beCopy !req
6. That men at sea
are few and far betweenCopy !req
7. Ah, oh, oh-oh-oh-ohCopy !req
8. Ah, oh-oh-oh-oh
oh-oh-oh-ohCopy !req
9. Hardship is all she ever gave to meCopy !req
10. Oh, oh-oh-ohCopy !req
11. And yet I ask
why men come back from seaCopy !req
12. Oh, oh-oh-oh-ohCopy !req
13. The sea is cruel
but the sea is cleanCopy !req
14. Oh, poor brown earthCopy !req
15. How kind you might have beenCopy !req
16. The princess -
Have you got news for me?Copy !req
17. No, Master.Copy !req
18. - Dead?
- She still sleeps.Copy !req
19. - You followed my orders?
- Yes, Master.Copy !req
20. - And the blind man?
- He has been found.Copy !req
21. Hmm.Copy !req
22. Alms, for the love of Allah.Copy !req
23. Alms, for the love of Allah.Copy !req
24. Alms, for the love of Allah.Copy !req
25. Alms, for the love of Allah.Copy !req
26. What? Your cur would bark?
A fine reward for charity.Copy !req
27. If charity be false as that coin.Copy !req
28. Then you cheat, son of a burnt father.Copy !req
29. A blind man cannot tell
truth from false.Copy !req
30. Alas, I cannot tell day from night.
It was my dog.Copy !req
31. - How can a dog tell bad from good?
- See for yourself.Copy !req
32. Now, by the wonder of Allah -Copy !req
33. It is a false coin,
and I, myself, knew it not!Copy !req
34. Come, O frequenter of tree trunks...Copy !req
35. now which is the bad one?Copy !req
36. This is no dog, but the reincarnation
of a tax collector!Copy !req
37. O ye whom Allah gave
the gift of sight...Copy !req
38. to fill your eyes
with beauty and delight...Copy !req
39. spare me a thought
to whom your wondrous world...Copy !req
40. is but a city of eternal night.Copy !req
41. Alms, for the love of Allah.Copy !req
42. Alms, for the love of Allah.Copy !req
43. - Bring him to me.
- Alms, for the love of Allah.Copy !req
44. Alms, for the love of Allah.Copy !req
45. Pray for me.
My name is Halima.Copy !req
46. - I do not know you?
- Does one always know one's friends?Copy !req
47. I have none to know.Copy !req
48. Can you not trust in one
who brings not words, but deeds?Copy !req
49. In my house, there is food and rest.
And what is mine is yours.Copy !req
50. - Why should you offer this?
- For your prayers.Copy !req
51. That is much for little.Copy !req
52. - Take my hand.
- There's no need. My dog sees for me.Copy !req
53. He gives me more
than ever he can receive, like all dogs.Copy !req
54. This is a sleep beyond my knowledge.Copy !req
55. Only this I know: When the blind man
comes to her, she will be cured.Copy !req
56. Strange, Master, he can do something
all your powers cannot.Copy !req
57. I'll make him do it for me
and cast him away.Copy !req
58. But she loves the blind man.Copy !req
59. Do you call the lisping
of two children in a garden love?Copy !req
60. Love she has yet to learn.Copy !req
61. And I am here to teach her.Copy !req
62. - Poor blind beggar.
- Even more unfortunate than you know.Copy !req
63. - That cannot be.
- But we are unveiled.Copy !req
64. And I am... veiled.Copy !req
65. - Tell us your name.
- Ahmad.Copy !req
66. - Ahmad!
- Ahmad, you'll beg no more.Copy !req
67. - Nor journey on.
- Stay here with us.Copy !req
68. O sovereigns of silkiness,
I am sure you are beautiful...Copy !req
69. but for me there is no staying.Copy !req
70. I must on, seeking the one I love,
whom I have lost.Copy !req
71. Men with two eyes often seek
all their lives and fail to find that one.Copy !req
72. Stay. There are great doctors here.
They may restore your sight.Copy !req
73. That would be the blackest day
of all my days.Copy !req
74. You talk in riddles.
I will give you the answer. Listen.Copy !req
75. There was once a king,
son of a king and of a hundred kings.Copy !req
76. His subjects countless,
his wealth untellable...Copy !req
77. his power absolute.Copy !req
78. And this dog was not a dog...Copy !req
79. but a youth who lived in Bagdad
and became dear to the king.Copy !req
80. But in those days,
he was nothing but a little thief.Copy !req
81. Why do you smell my fish,
master of a copper coin? Be off! Be off!Copy !req
82. Shall I call the khadi's clubmen? Eh?Copy !req
83. Stop, thief!Copy !req
84. Stop, thief! Stop that thief!Copy !req
85. Hey!Copy !req
86. Ahmad the king.Copy !req
87. Son of Akbar,
grandson of Haroun-el-Rachid...Copy !req
88. the great, the illustrious...Copy !req
89. lord of the earth,
defender of the faith...Copy !req
90. servant of the all-highest...Copy !req
91. but master of all men.Copy !req
92. Ahmad the king!Copy !req
93. Ahmad the king.Copy !req
94. Alas, I was that mighty man.Copy !req
95. 365 wives were mine.
In my heart there was no love.Copy !req
96. Fifty palaces, and I had no home.Copy !req
97. Richest among my subjects,
I was the poorest of the poor.Copy !req
98. Every desire satisfied,
I grew empty of desire.Copy !req
99. And in my whole vast kingdom,
I could find nothing to do -Copy !req
100. no task, no aim, no purpose -Copy !req
101. for always my grand vizierJaffar
stood between me and my people.Copy !req
102. Another execution.Copy !req
103. Why had he to die?Copy !req
104. He had been thinking,
my lord and master.Copy !req
105. - Is it a crime then to think?
- In a subject, it's quite unpardonable.Copy !req
106. Are men only to be ruled by fear?Copy !req
107. Men are evil - hatred behind their eyes,
lies on their lips, betrayal in their hearts.Copy !req
108. You will learn one day, great king...Copy !req
109. that there are about three things
that men respect:Copy !req
110. the lash that descends, the yoke
that breaks and the sword that slays.Copy !req
111. By the power and terror of these,
you may conquer the earth.Copy !req
112. Do I want to conquer the earth?Copy !req
113. What do you want,
my lord and master?Copy !req
114. I thought I might try
to give them happiness.Copy !req
115. Happiness. They are fools and knaves.Copy !req
116. Your grandsire knew it,
and if you would know it too...Copy !req
117. do as he did.Copy !req
118. One night, when darkness falls...Copy !req
119. leave your palace,
go among your people...Copy !req
120. mix with the crowds,
go into their houses...Copy !req
121. listen, observe and remember.Copy !req
122. - Tonight, Jaffar.
- Tonight, my king.Copy !req
123. - Your people, my king.
- I've never been so close to them.Copy !req
124. Go. Listen, observe and remember.Copy !req
125. It is told, though Allah
be wiser or more merciful...Copy !req
126. there was in the past of the ages
a king among kings...Copy !req
127. a master of arms and of armies,
of vessels and auxiliaries.Copy !req
128. And this master of time and people
was an oppressor to both...Copy !req
129. and the earth was as pitch in the faces
of his subjects and his slaves.Copy !req
130. - What's he saying?
- And they groaned together in secret.Copy !req
131. Why, I don't know.Copy !req
132. Is it the king he's talking about?Copy !req
133. Don't ask questions.
There are spies everywhere.Copy !req
134. You must be careful in Bagdad.Copy !req
135. I'm a stranger here. Surely you can tell me
what the old man's talking about.Copy !req
136. Oh, about foolish hopes...Copy !req
137. about a prophecy,
about a liberator.Copy !req
138. Only fools and children believe it.Copy !req
139. A liberator indeed.
Not while Ahmad is king.Copy !req
140. And they groaned together in secret
and were slain in the marketplace.Copy !req
141. But a wise man among the sages of Bagdad
comforted them with a prophecy...Copy !req
142. saying, "In the fullness of years,
a liberator shall come upon you...Copy !req
143. "and this shall be the sign ofhim:
he shall be the lowest of the low...Copy !req
144. and you shall look for him
in the clouds. "Copy !req
145. And the people cried,
"We shall look for him in the clouds indeed...Copy !req
146. "for if the great are powerless
to save us from this tyrant...Copy !req
147. how can one of no account avail?"Copy !req
148. And the reader
of the Milky Way replied...Copy !req
149. "Have faith, trust in Allah...Copy !req
150. "for there, one day in the blue,
you shall see a boy...Copy !req
151. "the lowest of the low,
mounted upon a cloud.Copy !req
152. "But the cloud shall be as strong
as the hills beneath the snow...Copy !req
153. "and from the ranges of the sky...Copy !req
154. he shall destroy this tyrant
with the arrow ofjustice. "Copy !req
155. - What is the name of the tyrant?
- Ahmad.Copy !req
156. - Ahmad.
- Ahmad.Copy !req
157. I wish the miracle would happen today.Copy !req
158. I wish he would die today.Copy !req
159. Arrest him. Put him in prison.Copy !req
160. When he says he's the king,
tell them he's a madman.Copy !req
161. His friends and all who might be loyal
to him must be destroyed.Copy !req
162. I learned that night not that men are evil,
but that he was evil.Copy !req
163. When he persuaded me among my people,
he laid a trap for me.Copy !req
164. I was thrown into prison...Copy !req
165. and there, in prison,
my life began...Copy !req
166. for there I met the one who was
to become my only true friend -Copy !req
167. Abu, the little thief of Bagdad.Copy !req
168. For only very little thieves
are thrown into prison.Copy !req
169. No! No! Not in prison!Copy !req
170. No! No! Not in prison!Copy !req
171. - Don't put me in prison! No!
- Come in, thief.Copy !req
172. Cut off his right arm,
and then his left.Copy !req
173. Then his left leg, then his right.Copy !req
174. - And then his head.
- No! No! No! No!Copy !req
175. I say no! No! Please, no!Copy !req
176. Don't kill me!Copy !req
177. - I don't want to die!
- Tomorrow morning.Copy !req
178. And as for the madman,
our great sultan Jaffar is merciful.Copy !req
179. Only his head.Copy !req
180. As the sun rises.Copy !req
181. No! No, no!Copy !req
182. - No! No, no!Copy !req
183. Poor boy, they've driven you mad.Copy !req
184. Me mad?Copy !req
185. They just said you were mad.Copy !req
186. Are you really mad?Copy !req
187. That's it. I'm mad. I must be mad.Copy !req
188. The maddest of all the madmen
that ever lived in the sultan's palace.Copy !req
189. - You are mad, quite mad.
- What's it matter?Copy !req
190. In the morning, unless the sun
stops still and never rises, we both die -Copy !req
191. the thief and the madman-
and I don't want to die.Copy !req
192. You are not mad...Copy !req
193. and maybe we shall watch the sun rise
from over the river.Copy !req
194. Didn't you hear the jailer?
"As the sun rises."Copy !req
195. As the sun rises, we'll take a boat
and go down to the sea.Copy !req
196. I've never seen the sea...Copy !req
197. but I've heard the sailors
on the riverside talk about it.Copy !req
198. In the sea are fishes
as big as the great temple...Copy !req
199. and little ones as tiny
as my little finger, with wings.Copy !req
200. And boats as big as Bagdad itself...Copy !req
201. with sails as big as clouds.Copy !req
202. And when the wind blows,
they go as fast as antelopes...Copy !req
203. and carry you to the isles
of India and China.Copy !req
204. To the isles of India and China.Copy !req
205. And we're locked in prison.Copy !req
206. The ax will fall as the sun rises.Copy !req
207. And you say you're not mad.Copy !req
208. - Look!
- What's that?Copy !req
209. The key of the prison.
I just stole it.Copy !req
210. - The key? Give it to me!
- Steady, steady.Copy !req
211. You want someone to look after you.
We can't go now.Copy !req
212. - Why not?
- We must wait. In an hour they will eat.Copy !req
213. After they eat, they sleep.
Then we go.Copy !req
214. Hurry! Catch this oar.Copy !req
215. Give me that rope!
Hurry! We must get away.Copy !req
216. Do you want us to be killed?Copy !req
217. Do you think
they will have mercy on us?Copy !req
218. Don't you think if the king knew,
he'd be merciful?Copy !req
219. The king was a fool. I hope he suffers
as much as he made the people suffer.Copy !req
220. - Do you hate him so much?
- Everybody hated him.Copy !req
221. Oh, if I could only
lay my hands on him just once...Copy !req
222. if I could only tell him
what a fool he was.Copy !req
223. Tell it now.
I am Ahmad the king.Copy !req
224. - Speak.
- Ahmad the king is dead.Copy !req
225. He died yesterday.
There's a new king, Jaffar.Copy !req
226. - Look!Copy !req
227. Jaffar would not make
all that fuss over me.Copy !req
228. He would not send
the whole guard after me.Copy !req
229. Mercy, Master. I'm your slave.Copy !req
230. Leave me at least one arm for small stealing,
and I'll pay you twice as much in taxes.Copy !req
231. - What's your name?
- I'm Abu the thief...Copy !req
232. son of Abu the thief,
grandson of Abu the thief.Copy !req
233. Most unfortunate of 10 sons
with a hunger that yawns day and night.Copy !req
234. Get up, my little friend.Copy !req
235. - We must return to Bagdad.
- How can you be such a fool?Copy !req
236. I mean, my king would be killed.Copy !req
237. A dead king and a dead thief
cannot do much, you know.Copy !req
238. If your fingers are as nimble as your brain,
you are indeed the prince of thieves.Copy !req
239. Come on. Let's catch the morning breeze.
That will carry us to freedom.Copy !req
240. Freedom. Strange.
I've had everything but freedom.Copy !req
241. And I've had nothing but freedom.Copy !req
242. And now we've got it,
what shall we do with it?Copy !req
243. Anything we like.
In three days, we shall be in Basra.Copy !req
244. Here. Take this pole. Push!Copy !req
245. I want to be a sailorCopy !req
246. Sailing out to seaCopy !req
247. No plowboy, tinker, tailor
is any fun to beCopy !req
248. Aunts and cousinsCopy !req
249. By the baker's dozensCopy !req
250. Drive a man to sea
or highway robberyCopy !req
251. I want to be a banditCopy !req
252. Can't you understand itCopy !req
253. Sailing to sea is life for meCopy !req
254. Is life for meCopy !req
255. Abu! Basra!Copy !req
256. Basra.Copy !req
257. Basra. How beautiful it looks.Copy !req
258. How beautiful it smells!Copy !req
259. Pancakes!Copy !req
260. - Give me one!
- Really, you are a fool.Copy !req
261. Whoever heard of eating pancakes
without honey?Copy !req
262. But how can you steal honey?Copy !req
263. Allah give us the pancakes,
and he will provide honey.Copy !req
264. Honey! Honey!
- Ah.Copy !req
265. Honey! Honey!Copy !req
266. - You buy honey?
- Yes, we are thinking of buying some.Copy !req
267. - Uh, a jar, of course.
- Jar?Copy !req
268. - Uh, if it's good honey.
- The best in Basra.Copy !req
269. Uh, easy to say. First I must try.Copy !req
270. Ahh. I've tasted better.
What do you think?Copy !req
271. - No. No, not good enough.
- No.Copy !req
272. - Your bees are out ofhumor.Copy !req
273. - Take better care of them.Copy !req
274. Hey, old friend.
Whose palace is this?Copy !req
275. Why, the palace of the sultan,
children of ignorance.Copy !req
276. - The palace of a thousand toys.
- Toys?Copy !req
277. Where have you come from,
you beggars of no importance?Copy !req
278. Don't you know that the sultan has
the greatest collection of toys in the world?Copy !req
279. Why toys?Copy !req
280. The sultan is an old man,
and old men are like children.Copy !req
281. He guards his toys more jealously...Copy !req
282. than he guards his daughter.Copy !req
283. But I say no more. Now out of my way,
you masters of a thousand fleas.Copy !req
284. Allah be with you, but I doubt it.Copy !req
285. - What's happening?
- Let me go!Copy !req
286. - Not until you've told us.
- The princess comes!Copy !req
287. - Then why does everybody go?
- It's death to look on her.Copy !req
288. - Death?
- Why?Copy !req
289. No man has ever seen her, nor shall,
till her father gives her in marriage.Copy !req
290. - Is she so ugly?
- Her beauty is like the sun and the moon.Copy !req
291. Let me go!Copy !req
292. - Let us go!
- Where?Copy !req
293. Up there!Copy !req
294. Ah.Copy !req
295. - Your eating will cause our death.
- Without eating, we die.Copy !req
296. Abu! Here they come!Copy !req
297. - I must see her again.
- But I've found Sinbad the sailor.Copy !req
298. And he has given us
two places on his ship.Copy !req
299. It is more wonderful
than I'd ever imagined.Copy !req
300. And on the next tide, she sails.Copy !req
301. I can't go.
I must see her again.Copy !req
302. But, Ahmad, all my life I dreamt of going
in a great ship across the world.Copy !req
303. I can't go.
I must see her again.Copy !req
304. If I help you to see her,
will you then come with me?Copy !req
305. I will.Copy !req
306. O throbbing heart of mineCopy !req
307. Be still todayCopy !req
308. We must await the wordCopy !req
309. That all men sayCopy !req
310. And when, O heart of mineCopy !req
311. It comes to youCopy !req
312. Leap upCopy !req
313. RememberingCopy !req
314. It mightCopy !req
315. Be trueCopy !req
316. It might be trueCopy !req
317. No more. The music of a love song
is as heavy as the noonday air.Copy !req
318. Let us wait for the nightingale
and the night.Copy !req
319. To the pool.Copy !req
320. Oh!Copy !req
321. A djinni!Copy !req
322. A djinni!Copy !req
323. A djinni. Don't go! Don't go.
It's a djinni in the pool.Copy !req
324. A djinni.Copy !req
325. Are you afraid?Copy !req
326. Yes. Terribly.Copy !req
327. Why don't you run away?Copy !req
328. I want to look.Copy !req
329. I've never seen a djinni before.Copy !req
330. Well, then what do you see?Copy !req
331. Remember always, to a djinni,
you must tell the truth.Copy !req
332. You don't look wicked.
Are you a good djinni?Copy !req
333. Not too good. Very good djinni
are just as tiresome as very good men.Copy !req
334. - Do you live down there?
- No.Copy !req
335. - Why have you come?
- To see you.Copy !req
336. - I was about to bathe.
- I'm waiting.Copy !req
337. Bathe, with you there?Copy !req
338. Give me your hand then.
Down into the water.Copy !req
339. Oh, djinni, you've gone.Copy !req
340. I didn't mean you to go so soon.Copy !req
341. Shall I never see you again?
Never?Copy !req
342. Don't be afraid.
I'm not a djinni.Copy !req
343. Who are you?Copy !req
344. Your slave.Copy !req
345. Where have you come from?Copy !req
346. From the other side of time...
to find you.Copy !req
347. How long have you been searching?Copy !req
348. Since time began.Copy !req
349. Now that you've found me,
how long will you stay?Copy !req
350. Till the end of time.Copy !req
351. For me, there can be no more beauty
in the world but yours.Copy !req
352. For me, there can be
no more pleasure in the world...Copy !req
353. than to please you.Copy !req
354. Will you be here in the garden
tomorrow at the same hour?Copy !req
355. There's a gardener here
who watches night and day.Copy !req
356. His name is Death.Copy !req
357. You mustn't come.Copy !req
358. Forbid me then.Copy !req
359. I cannot forbid.Copy !req
360. Tomorrow!Copy !req
361. And all tomorrows.Copy !req
362. - Did you see her?
- I did.Copy !req
363. Good! Then we can go
with Sinbad tonight.Copy !req
364. - No, Abu. I can't go.
- Why not? You have seen her again.Copy !req
365. That's why I can't go -
because I have seen her.Copy !req
366. All right.Copy !req
367. Then I'll go alone.Copy !req
368. If you go there tomorrow again...Copy !req
369. how will you pass the guards
without me to help?Copy !req
370. - Oh, I'll find a way.
- You'll be caught.Copy !req
371. You'll stay with me?
Oh, Abu, why should you?Copy !req
372. You have as great a longing
in your soul as I have.Copy !req
373. - Why should you stay with me?
- Because I'm as great a fool as you are.Copy !req
374. Brother of lions.Copy !req
375. Fountain of hospitality.Copy !req
376. You know, I have the largest collection
of these mechanical devices...Copy !req
377. in the whole wide world.Copy !req
378. And this is the most remarkable
of them all.Copy !req
379. I-It tells the time.Copy !req
380. See how it works? Huh?Copy !req
381. Sheer magic, isn't it?Copy !req
382. I hope this dangerous device will never
be allowed into the hands of the people.Copy !req
383. - Dangerous?
- Yes.Copy !req
384. If people once begin
to know the time...Copy !req
385. they will no longer call you
the king of time.Copy !req
386. They will want to know
how time is spent.Copy !req
387. Oh, you're right.
Oh, the people must never know.Copy !req
388. Look, look. Come.Copy !req
389. Ah! See.
Such workmanship.Copy !req
390. Such - Such precision.
Such reliability.Copy !req
391. I do so prefer these things
to my subjects.Copy !req
392. Watch. Watch.Copy !req
393. See. No, no.
That's the finest of them all.Copy !req
394. See?Copy !req
395. - I have only to wind a key or press a spring -Copy !req
396. and they do exactly
the same thing every time...Copy !req
397. and exactly what I want.Copy !req
398. And so often my subjects
fail to do exactly what I want...Copy !req
399. and then I have to have
their heads cut off.Copy !req
400. See? Oh!Copy !req
401. Your collection
is indeed magnificent...Copy !req
402. and so near completion too.Copy !req
403. Near completion? Huh.Copy !req
404. I'd have you know my collection
is-is the most complete completion.Copy !req
405. Please, do not misunderstand me.Copy !req
406. I am well aware that nothing short
of a miracle could add luster...Copy !req
407. to this already dazzling display.Copy !req
408. But such a miracle does exist.Copy !req
409. A mechanical toy better than -
than any of mine?Copy !req
410. Knowing of your interest in these matters,
I have brought it with me.Copy !req
411. Well, let's see it. Let's see it.
Quickly, quickly!Copy !req
412. Oh, I can't bear to be kept waiting.Copy !req
413. Ooh. This is exciting, this.Copy !req
414. If Your Highness
would wind it yourself.Copy !req
415. Uh -Copy !req
416. Oh! What's it going to do? Hmm?Copy !req
417. Move its legs, or arch its neck?Copy !req
418. Or- Or wag its tail? Hmm?Copy !req
419. It doesn't kick, does it?Copy !req
420. To tell you the truth, I'm always
rather nervous of these things...Copy !req
421. till I know what they're going to do,
till I get used to them.Copy !req
422. Ooh. Ah.Copy !req
423. It wants some winding.Copy !req
424. - If Your Highness would mount.
- Yes.Copy !req
425. - And now?
- Pull the reins!Copy !req
426. Marvelous!
I am no longer a man. I am a bird!Copy !req
427. I'm the king of birds!Copy !req
428. Oh.Copy !req
429. No! Oh. Mmm, I want it!Copy !req
430. I want it. I must have it, and I'll
give you anything you wish for it.Copy !req
431. It's yours.
I ask but one thing in return.Copy !req
432. Anything you will.Copy !req
433. - Your daughter.
- My daughter?Copy !req
434. Mm-hmm.Copy !req
435. Oh, dear, dear, dear. Really.
This is -This is very awkward.Copy !req
436. Wh -What do you want
my daughter for?Copy !req
437. - I have to found a dynasty.
- Oh, quite, quite, quite.Copy !req
438. I understand entirely
about founding a dynasty.Copy !req
439. Delightful thing to do.
I've tried myself, many times.Copy !req
440. And what have I got?
A daughter.Copy !req
441. The true offspring
of the mother of miseries.Copy !req
442. Her eyes have quarreled.
They're always trying to get at one another.Copy !req
443. Her eyes are Babylonian eyes...Copy !req
444. and her eyebrows like
the crescent moon of Ramadan.Copy !req
445. - Her body's straight as the letter alif.
- How do you know?Copy !req
446. - I've seen her.
- Oh, no, you -Copy !req
447. - I have.
- Where?Copy !req
448. - In my crystal.
- Oh, confound your crystal.Copy !req
449. Confound all crystals.
I always did hate the things. I -Copy !req
450. - Are you a magician?
- I have some skill.Copy !req
451. Oh, say no more. I -Copy !req
452. Anyhow, I - I must have this horse.
So I suppose you must have my daughter.Copy !req
453. Mmm.Copy !req
454. I will never marry him.
I would rather die.Copy !req
455. I will go to my sister, who's married
to he sultan of Samarkand.Copy !req
456. She will protect me.Copy !req
457. Go back to the garden. You will find someone
there whom we thought was the djinni of the pool.Copy !req
458. Tell him of our misfortune, and tell him
that I will wait for him in Samarkand.Copy !req
459. Yes, Princess.Copy !req
460. Your Highness,
the princess is nowhere to be found.Copy !req
461. She is gone. We have searched
the whole garden.Copy !req
462. - We have found only two beggars.
- Bring them here.Copy !req
463. Jaffar! Jaffar!Copy !req
464. Jaffar!Copy !req
465. At last, face to face,
man to man, sword to sword.Copy !req
466. Give me a sword!
Allah will judge!Copy !req
467. Great sultan, I speak the truth.
My eyes bear witness.Copy !req
468. Ahmad!Copy !req
469. My eyes!Copy !req
470. I'm blind!Copy !req
471. Ahmad!Copy !req
472. Listen, great sultan,
I know the truth.Copy !req
473. You must know who this man is!Copy !req
474. And this - Listen, good people.Copy !req
475. - Son of a dog.
- Allah.Copy !req
476. By this, my magic rune...Copy !req
477. be what your fathers were...Copy !req
478. and bay the moon.Copy !req
479. And this is my curse:Copy !req
480. You shall remain a dog...Copy !req
481. and you shall walk
in the darkness of the blind...Copy !req
482. until I hold her in my arms.Copy !req
483. And now, dispensers of bounty,
you know why a blind man with his dog...Copy !req
484. searches the world for a lost love,
and with little enough hope.Copy !req
485. Yet without that hope,
there would be nothing.Copy !req
486. And Allah is merciful.Copy !req
487. Allah is merciful indeed,
for the one that you seek is here.Copy !req
488. If you mock me,
Allah will not forgive.Copy !req
489. I do not mock. Your princess was captured by
slave traders and sold here in our slave market.Copy !req
490. The richest merchant in the town
bought her.Copy !req
491. But no sooner was she taken to his house
than she fell into the strangest trance.Copy !req
492. She lives, but is as dead.
No doctor can restore her.Copy !req
493. Night and day she calls upon
the djinni of the pool.Copy !req
494. - I was that djinni!
- And you alone can bring her back to life.Copy !req
495. Can you take me where she is?Copy !req
496. O djinni, shall I never see you again?Copy !req
497. - Never?
- Lead me to her.Copy !req
498. Why have you come?Copy !req
499. To find you.Copy !req
500. - How long have you been searching?
- From the beginning of time.Copy !req
501. Now that you've found me,
how long will you stay?Copy !req
502. Till the end of time.Copy !req
503. The dream - my dream -Copy !req
504. always the same dream.Copy !req
505. This is no dream.Copy !req
506. Ahmad!Copy !req
507. Finish the masquerade.Copy !req
508. Don't look at me like that.Copy !req
509. Suffering has left its mark.Copy !req
510. For me, your beauty
will always be as I first saw it -Copy !req
511. never changing.Copy !req
512. Your eyes -They're so strange.Copy !req
513. So full of pain.Copy !req
514. One cannot go through fire
and not be scorched.Copy !req
515. Ahmad, you must go.
The master has returned.Copy !req
516. I will hide you, and when the master
sleeps in the heat of the noon...Copy !req
517. I'll bring her to you.Copy !req
518. Quiet.Copy !req
519. From now you're not only mine.
You belong to the princess as well.Copy !req
520. Stay and guard her for me.Copy !req
521. Blind. He's blind.Copy !req
522. It is in your power
to restore his sight.Copy !req
523. There is, in this town, a famous doctor
who would, at your request, cure him.Copy !req
524. Take me.Copy !req
525. Is the doctor here, on this ship?Copy !req
526. Yes. He's waiting for you.Copy !req
527. Open this door.Copy !req
528. Open it!Copy !req
529. Bring him nearer.Copy !req
530. Nearer.Copy !req
531. How do you find
your dog's life, hmm?Copy !req
532. Mmm. Strange how an unpleasant child
can be a decent dog.Copy !req
533. Throw him overboard.Copy !req
534. Welcome.Copy !req
535. - Jaffar!
- Yes. Jaffar.Copy !req
536. It's always Jaffar.Copy !req
537. Since you left your palace,
I have kept you safe.Copy !req
538. When you rode hopeless and lost
in the desert, who guided you?Copy !req
539. When you were sold in the slave market,
who bought you?Copy !req
540. Always Jaffar.Copy !req
541. It was in my house you were cared for,
to sleep your sleep...Copy !req
542. and dream to its end...Copy !req
543. your first dream of love.Copy !req
544. It was I who woke you.Copy !req
545. No. It was Ahmad.Copy !req
546. I was told there was a doctor here...Copy !req
547. who could restore his sight.Copy !req
548. But I am that doctor.Copy !req
549. The same moment
that I hold you in my arms...Copy !req
550. Ahmad will see.Copy !req
551. Take me in your arms.Copy !req
552. My eyes!Copy !req
553. Hey! Ahmad!Copy !req
554. Ahmad!Copy !req
555. Can you see?
I'm Abu again!Copy !req
556. Abu!Copy !req
557. - Abu, where is she?
- She's with him -Jaffar- on the ship.Copy !req
558. What good are my eyes to me
without her?Copy !req
559. Is there nothing for you
without her?Copy !req
560. Nothing.Copy !req
561. No. No.Copy !req
562. I have powers that could
force you to my will.Copy !req
563. But I want more than they can give.Copy !req
564. I want your love.Copy !req
565. Forget Ahmad.
He's no longer blind.Copy !req
566. And for a man with eyes,
the world is full of women.Copy !req
567. Only I am cursed...Copy !req
568. that I can see only you.Copy !req
569. Little fool. Trying to end your life
before it has begun.Copy !req
570. I tell you, Ahmad has forgotten.Copy !req
571. Look!Copy !req
572. It's Ahmad!Copy !req
573. Wind!Copy !req
574. Wind!Copy !req
575. Wind!Copy !req
576. Whip yourself, winds of heaven!Copy !req
577. Whip till you wail aloud!Copy !req
578. Ahmad!Copy !req
579. Ahmad!Copy !req
580. Ahmad!Copy !req
581. Why do you refuse to obey your destiny?Copy !req
582. You behave like a slave girl.Copy !req
583. I am a slave girl.Copy !req
584. You could command me.Copy !req
585. Try. Ask what you will.Copy !req
586. Would you take me back to Basra?Copy !req
587. - Helmsman!
- Master!Copy !req
588. Northward to Basra.Copy !req
589. This is a place of desolation.Copy !req
590. It is the most beautiful garden
in the world.Copy !req
591. If there were ever flowers in it,
they've vanished, like cancer.Copy !req
592. And the pool - so dark with weeds...Copy !req
593. you can't even see
your own reflection in it.Copy !req
594. I'm not looking for my own reflection.Copy !req
595. Father, I don't want to
go to Bagdad with Jaffar.Copy !req
596. - But, my dear-
- Don't let him take me.Copy !req
597. - Don't!
- Oh, there, there, there, there, there, there.Copy !req
598. Well, if you don't want to
go to Bagdad with him, you shan't.Copy !req
599. No. Never. Never, never, never.
Never while I live. There.Copy !req
600. - There. Oh.Copy !req
601. What is it?Copy !req
602. The newest magical toy:
the silver maid.Copy !req
603. Does she do anything more?Copy !req
604. She can embrace you.Copy !req
605. But any of my wives will do that.Copy !req
606. Her embrace will thrill you...Copy !req
607. as no other woman ever has...Copy !req
608. or ever will.Copy !req
609. Do you mean I might
get rid of all my wives...Copy !req
610. and have a collection
of these things?Copy !req
611. She tickles!Copy !req
612. Guards!Copy !req
613. Make ready for Bagdad.Copy !req
614. Free! Free!Copy !req
615. Free! Free! Free!Copy !req
616. Free! Free! Free!Copy !req
617. Free again!Copy !req
618. Free, after 2,000 years!Copy !req
619. 2,000 years ago,
King Solomon, master of all the djinns...Copy !req
620. imprisoned me within that bottle.Copy !req
621. For me, this is the first moment
of my new freedom.Copy !req
622. For you -Copy !req
623. For you,
this is the last moment of your life.Copy !req
624. My life?Copy !req
625. Your life!Copy !req
626. In a moment I shall
lift my foot and crush you...Copy !req
627. insect, beetle, worm that you are!Copy !req
628. But, sheik of spirits,
I fished you out of the sea.Copy !req
629. I opened your bottle. I let you out.
You can't be so ungrateful.Copy !req
630. Ungrateful?
Slaves are not grateful.Copy !req
631. Not for their freedom.Copy !req
632. Listen.Copy !req
633. Inside my bottle
for the first thousand years...Copy !req
634. I swore that I'd enrich the one that freed me
with all the riches of the earth.Copy !req
635. But in the second thousand years,
my imprisoned spirit turned to vengeance...Copy !req
636. on all that lived and were free.Copy !req
637. And I swore that I'd kill him
that freed me to satisfy that hate.Copy !req
638. Are you ready?Copy !req
639. Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait!Copy !req
640. Please, before I die, may I -Copy !req
641. May I ask one question?Copy !req
642. Ask.Copy !req
643. How comes it that you,
as big as a mountain...Copy !req
644. could ever get into that bottle
I can hold in my hand?Copy !req
645. You weren't ever in it really,
were you?Copy !req
646. - Of course I was.
- Oh, no, you weren't.Copy !req
647. - I was!
- You weren't!Copy !req
648. What? You dare doubt?Copy !req
649. If I'm going to die in a moment, I can
dare anything, and I say it's impossible.Copy !req
650. - Impossible?
- And I don't believe you.Copy !req
651. - Take care.
- And never shall.Copy !req
652. - Never?
- Nothing can make me!Copy !req
653. - Nothing?
- Nothing. Unless I see it with my own eyes.Copy !req
654. Then, dog of an unbeliever,
before you die...Copy !req
655. you shall see, with me,
nothing is impossible!Copy !req
656. You shall see and believe!Copy !req
657. Now, you great, overblown belch!Copy !req
658. Let me out! Let me out!Copy !req
659. Just because you were bigger than me,
you thought you could bully.Copy !req
660. - Let me out! Let me out!
- Product of inflation.Copy !req
661. Descendant of a stink. Let you out?Copy !req
662. I'm going to throw you back into the sea.Copy !req
663. - This time forever.
- Oh, no. Mercy! Mercy, O Master!Copy !req
664. - What's that?
- O great and merciful master!Copy !req
665. - Say that again.
- O great and merciful master...Copy !req
666. let me out,
and I'll grant you three wishes.Copy !req
667. - Three wishes?
- Your first three wishes shall come true.Copy !req
668. - You swear?
- I swear.Copy !req
669. By King Solomon,
master of all the djinn?Copy !req
670. By King Solomon,
the master of all the djinn...Copy !req
671. the oath that no spirit can break.Copy !req
672. - And you'll behave? No threatening and shouting?
- No.Copy !req
673. - No what?
- No, Master.Copy !req
674. Now, don't make so much noise again.
You frightened me before.Copy !req
675. Master, I hear and obey.Copy !req
676. That's better.
All bullies must learn manners in the end.Copy !req
677. I'm hungry.Copy !req
678. Can't think with my stomach empty.Copy !req
679. I wish I had some of those sausages
Mother used to make.Copy !req
680. Your sausages, Master.Copy !req
681. That was the first wish, Master.Copy !req
682. Two more remain.
Name them.Copy !req
683. Don't you hurry me.
I've got to be careful.Copy !req
684. Two more.
You know what I wish?Copy !req
685. Tell me. Where is my friend Ahmad?Copy !req
686. Master, to know that,
you must look into the All-Seeing Eye.Copy !req
687. - Then give me the eye.
- Master, I can take you where it is...Copy !req
688. but not even I can steal it for you.Copy !req
689. Steal? Huh!
I'll see to that.Copy !req
690. - Little braggart. What have you ever stolen?
- What haven't I?Copy !req
691. A key from its lock, ring from its finger,
money from its purse, the strength of a djinni -Copy !req
692. And the tongue of a liar!
But he who would steal the All-Seeing Eye...Copy !req
693. from the very brow of the goddess must be
neither a thief nor a braggart, but a hero.Copy !req
694. I always wanted to be a hero.
Come on!Copy !req
695. Then catch on to my hair.Copy !req
696. All right.
But mind you, this is not my second wish yet.Copy !req
697. Now I'm rather helping you.Copy !req
698. Yes, Master.Copy !req
699. Djinni! Djinni!Copy !req
700. I'm frightened!Copy !req
701. I hear!Copy !req
702. All right, Master?Copy !req
703. I think so.
Where are we now?Copy !req
704. Above the roof of the world.Copy !req
705. Has the world got a roof?Copy !req
706. Of course, supported by seven pillars.Copy !req
707. And the seven pillars are set on the shoulders
of a djinni whose strength is beyond thought.Copy !req
708. And the djinni stands on an eagle...Copy !req
709. and the eagle on a bull,
and the bull on a fish.Copy !req
710. And the fish swims
in the Sea of Eternity.Copy !req
711. Where are we going?Copy !req
712. On the highest peak
of the highest mountain of the world...Copy !req
713. where earth meets the sky,
and there is the Temple of the Dawn.Copy !req
714. And in the great hall of the temple
is the goddess of light.Copy !req
715. And in the head of the goddess
is the All-Seeing Eye.Copy !req
716. And now, my little braggart...Copy !req
717. you can be a thief
and a hero all in one.Copy !req
718. A hero.Copy !req
719. I want to be a sailorCopy !req
720. I wantCopy !req
721. - I want
- I wantCopy !req
722. - I want to be a sailor
- I want to be a sailorCopy !req
723. - I want to be a sailor, sailing out to seaCopy !req
724. No plowboy, tinker, tailor
is any fun to beCopy !req
725. - Aunts and cousinsCopy !req
726. - By the baker's dozens
- By the baker's dozensCopy !req
727. Drive a man to sea
or highway robberyCopy !req
728. - I
- ICopy !req
729. Want to be a bandit
Can't you understand itCopy !req
730. Can't you understand itCopy !req
731. Djinni! Djinni!
Get me out ofhere, quick! Quick!Copy !req
732. Djinni! Djinni! Help! Help!
Djinni, help!Copy !req
733. Djinni!Copy !req
734. Is this the All-Seeing Eye?Copy !req
735. Not for 2,000 years
will she grow another.Copy !req
736. For a hundred generations of men,
she will not know their doings.Copy !req
737. - Now shall I know what happened to Ahmad?
- Look.Copy !req
738. Look hard.Copy !req
739. It's true. It's Ahmad.Copy !req
740. Help!Copy !req
741. Help!Copy !req
742. Help!Copy !req
743. - Help!
- Help!Copy !req
744. Now my second wish.
Take me to him.Copy !req
745. To hear is to obey,
little master of the world.Copy !req
746. Hold tight, little brother.
We have to return half across the world.Copy !req
747. Don't be afraid, Ahmad!Copy !req
748. - It's me, Abu!
- Abu!Copy !req
749. Put me down!
Put me down!Copy !req
750. Gently, you clumsy good-for-nothing!Copy !req
751. - Abu!
- Ahmad!Copy !req
752. Allah be merciful.
It's a real djinni.Copy !req
753. Yes. He's mine,
and I am his master.Copy !req
754. I am your master, aren't I?Copy !req
755. To hear is to obey, O Master!Copy !req
756. See? He brought me here,
and he'll carry us away.Copy !req
757. What's he laughing like that for?
I don't like the sound of it.Copy !req
758. Oh, he's all right.
He's a bit big to talk to.Copy !req
759. That's the worse part about him.
You have to shout so much.Copy !req
760. Hey, you up there!Copy !req
761. - What are you laughing for?
- For my freedom. It is at hand.Copy !req
762. You get us out of this place.Copy !req
763. - Your third wish?
- No, no, no, no.Copy !req
764. Not yet.Copy !req
765. He is big, but he is sharp.Copy !req
766. I've got to be careful.
Only one wish left.Copy !req
767. I have only one wish.Copy !req
768. Oh, I know all about that.Copy !req
769. Your princess.Copy !req
770. If only I could see her again.Copy !req
771. Is that all?
I don't need to waste a wish for that.Copy !req
772. - Look.
- What's that?Copy !req
773. Look into it - hard, hard.Copy !req
774. Keep staring into it.
You'll see her.Copy !req
775. It's true!Copy !req
776. A blue rose?Copy !req
777. I've heard about that.Copy !req
778. That -
That's the Blue Rose of Forgetfulness.Copy !req
779. If she inhales its fragrance,
she'll forget... everything.Copy !req
780. Blue roses?Copy !req
781. Exquisite.Copy !req
782. Who are you?Copy !req
783. I don't know.Copy !req
784. I've forgotten.Copy !req
785. Why have you suffered?Copy !req
786. Have I suffered?Copy !req
787. I don't remember.Copy !req
788. It seems I was in love.Copy !req
789. Whom did you love?Copy !req
790. I cannot tell.Copy !req
791. I don't know any longer.Copy !req
792. I can't look anymore!Copy !req
793. There are worse things than blindness.Copy !req
794. Knowledge can be more terrible
than ignorance, if one can do nothing.Copy !req
795. Nothing.
Why did you give me this?Copy !req
796. Take it back and break it
into a thousand pieces.Copy !req
797. I only stole it to help you.Copy !req
798. You stole it
because you enjoy stealing.Copy !req
799. Without my stealing, you'd be dead.Copy !req
800. I wish I were dead.
I wish I'd never seen you.Copy !req
801. I wish -
I wish I were in Bagdad.Copy !req
802. I wish you were!Copy !req
803. Ahmad! Ahmad!Copy !req
804. Ahmad! Ahmad!Copy !req
805. Ahmad!Copy !req
806. Ahmad!Copy !req
807. Where are you?Copy !req
808. Where you wished him -
on his way to Bagdad.Copy !req
809. Then take me out of this place.
Don't you hear? I want to get out.Copy !req
810. You stay where you are.Copy !req
811. You're a clever little man,
little master of the universe...Copy !req
812. but mortals are weak and frail.Copy !req
813. If their stomach speaks,
they forget their brain.Copy !req
814. If their brain speaks,
they forget their hearts.Copy !req
815. And if their hearts speak-Copy !req
816. If their hearts speak,
they forget everything!Copy !req
817. Am I not your master?Copy !req
818. No longer.
You've had your three wishes, and I am free!Copy !req
819. Free!Copy !req
820. Djinni! Djinni!
Come back!Copy !req
821. Don't leave me here!
Don't let me die! Djinni!Copy !req
822. And farewell,
little master of the universe.Copy !req
823. Farewell! Free!Copy !req
824. Free! Free!Copy !req
825. Everything of the past is forgotten.Copy !req
826. You have been in love with me.Copy !req
827. You are in love with me.Copy !req
828. You will always love me.Copy !req
829. Everything of the past is forgotten.Copy !req
830. I have been in love with you.Copy !req
831. I am in love with you.Copy !req
832. I shall always love you.Copy !req
833. Hey!Copy !req
834. Where'd he go?
Where'd he go?Copy !req
835. Jaffar!Copy !req
836. Ahmad.Copy !req
837. Let's go!Copy !req
838. Put them in prison.Copy !req
839. Chain them to opposite walls.Copy !req
840. In the morning,
they die the death of a thousand cuts.Copy !req
841. I have failed, my love.
Forgive me.Copy !req
842. I have no regrets.Copy !req
843. We are together.Copy !req
844. And shall be for the rest of our lives.Copy !req
845. We shall never again
know the torture of being apart.Copy !req
846. And if death is not the end,
we shall go on together.Copy !req
847. Abu and I parted quarreling.Copy !req
848. I wish I could tell him I'm sorry.Copy !req
849. Abu, my friend...Copy !req
850. good-bye and forgive me.Copy !req
851. No. I won't say good-bye.Copy !req
852. I'll help.Copy !req
853. But how? How?Copy !req
854. If I can't help, I won't see!Copy !req
855. Welcome, our prince.Copy !req
856. Welcome, little prince.Copy !req
857. Father of a beard,
there's some mistake.Copy !req
858. I'm not a prince.Copy !req
859. I'm only a thief.Copy !req
860. For you we have been waiting
twice 2,000 years.Copy !req
861. Oh, no. Not waiting for me...Copy !req
862. because I didn't know I was coming,
and I don't know how I've come.Copy !req
863. Who are you, father of miracles?Copy !req
864. And where am I?Copy !req
865. This is the Land of Legend...Copy !req
866. where everything is possible
when seen through the eyes of youth.Copy !req
867. We are the remnant of the Golden Age.Copy !req
868. Golden because gold was nothing.Copy !req
869. No more than the sand
beneath your feet...Copy !req
870. or the stone that we became.Copy !req
871. How did you become stone?Copy !req
872. We were petrified with horror...Copy !req
873. by the evil done among men...Copy !req
874. when they ceased to be children...Copy !req
875. and to believe in the beauty
of the impossible.Copy !req
876. But whenever the heart of a child
returns to us...Copy !req
877. and comes into us...Copy !req
878. we live again.Copy !req
879. And so, as that child...Copy !req
880. you are to be my successor.Copy !req
881. Now, come with me...Copy !req
882. and I will present you
with two insignia...Copy !req
883. of true kingship.Copy !req
884. Here they are.Copy !req
885. Aim this only at injustice,
and you cannot fail.Copy !req
886. Oh, no, father of kindness.
I don't want it.Copy !req
887. I don't want to be a king.Copy !req
888. - I only want to save my friend.
- Well, this will help you.Copy !req
889. Take it. And now...Copy !req
890. I do homage...Copy !req
891. for you are king...Copy !req
892. and all in our kingdom is yours...Copy !req
893. except that carpet,
which I keep for myself.Copy !req
894. For on that carpet...Copy !req
895. which flies when it is bidden -
"Fly, carpet" -Copy !req
896. I shall go to paradise
at the hour appointed.Copy !req
897. It is told,
though Allah is wiser or more merciful...Copy !req
898. there was in the past of the ages
a king among kings...Copy !req
899. a master of arms and of armies,
of vessels and auxiliaries.Copy !req
900. And this master of time and people
was an oppressor to both...Copy !req
901. until the earth was as pitch
on the faces of his subjects and his slaves...Copy !req
902. and they groaned together in secret...Copy !req
903. and were slayed in the marketplace.Copy !req
904. But a wise man
among the sages of Bagdad...Copy !req
905. comforted them
with a prophecy, saying...Copy !req
906. "In the fullness of time,
a liberator shall come upon you...Copy !req
907. and this shall be the sign ofhim. "Copy !req
908. O Allah,
I know you don't much like stealing.Copy !req
909. I'll never steal again.
You can trust me.Copy !req
910. Just this once more. Just this little carpet
so as to get to Bagdad in time.Copy !req
911. When the old king's hour comes...Copy !req
912. he won't want a carpet
to fly to paradise.Copy !req
913. Then you, O Allah,
will take him by the hand...Copy !req
914. gentle and kind as he is...Copy !req
915. and lead him into eternal bliss.Copy !req
916. Aren't I right?
But I must go to Bagdad to save my friend.Copy !req
917. It's a question of minutes.
You must see that.Copy !req
918. O Allah, lord ofjustice,
let me steal.Copy !req
919. Fly, carpet.Copy !req
920. Wait.Copy !req
921. Fly, carpet!Copy !req
922. Why do you close your eyes?Copy !req
923. There's little time left to see him.Copy !req
924. The people cried,
"We shall look for him in the clouds indeed...Copy !req
925. "for if the great are powerless
to save us from this tyrant...Copy !req
926. how can one of no account avail?"Copy !req
927. And the reader
of the Milky Way replied...Copy !req
928. "Have faith, trust in Allah...Copy !req
929. "for there, one day in the blue,
you shall see a boy...Copy !req
930. "the lowest of the low,
mounted on a cloud...Copy !req
931. "and that cloud shall be as strong
as the hills beneath the snow...Copy !req
932. "and from the ranges of the sky...Copy !req
933. he shall destroy this tyrant
with the arrow ofjustice. "Copy !req
934. The horse!Copy !req
935. Up, quickly!Copy !req
936. Ahmad!Copy !req
937. Jaffar!Copy !req
938. My people,
I owe everything to Abu...Copy !req
939. and when he grows into a man,
he shall be my grand vizier.Copy !req
940. He shall be sent
to the best school in Bagdad...Copy !req
941. and all the wise men of the East shall
teach him all the wisdom of the world.Copy !req
942. He shall be the wisest of men,
and in those future days...Copy !req
943. when he will be full of knowledge,
science and dignity...Copy !req
944. he will be the shining example
for the youths of Bagdad...Copy !req
945. and they may remember
how the little thief became the dignifi -Copy !req
946. Hey! Abu! Where are you going?Copy !req
947. You've got what you wanted.Copy !req
948. Now, I'm going to find what I want.Copy !req
949. - What's that?
- Some fun.Copy !req
950. - An adventure at last!Copy !req