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 Ayns [FN#384] and which section [FN#385] lacketh the formula, 'To Whom belong glory and glorification and majesty [FN#386]?'" The Koranist could not reply, and she said to him, "Put off thy clothes." So he doffed them, and she continued, "O Commander of the Faithful, the verset of the sixteen Mims is in the chapter Húd and is the saying of the Most High, 'It was said, O Noah, go down in peace from us, and blessing upon thee!' [FN#387] that of the three-and-twenty Kafs is the verse called of the Faith, in the chapter of The Cow; that of the hundred and forty Ayns is in the chapter of Al-A'aráf, [FN#388] where the Lord saith, 'And Moses chose seventy men of his tribe to attend our appointed time; [FN#389] to each man a pair of eyes.' [FN#390] And the lesson, which lacketh the formula, 'To Whom be glory and glorification,' is that which comprises the chapters, The Hour draweth nigh and the Moon shall be cloven in twain [FN#391]; The Compassionate and The Event." [FN#392] Thereupon the professor departed in confusion.--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.

When it was the Four Hundred and Forty-ninth Night,