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