CAPTAIN OF MILITARY
All warned and at their posts, my Lord.

CALIPH
Allah, deliver our enemies into their hands. Let Hassan come to me.

HASSAN
(Prostrating himself) Master!

CALIPH
(Raising him) Rise, Hassan. This Hassan, yesterday a stranger,
has to-night by his skill and invention, saved my life and rescued
this city from a greater peril than my death.

CROWD
May it be far!

CALIPH
Therefore here and now, in the presence of all, I nominate Hassan to my court,
to hold rank among my subjects second to none save to Jafar, my Grand Vizier.

YASMIN
(Who has been at her balcony with SELIM) O Allah!

CROWD
Honour to Hassan. Honour to Hassan.

HASSAN
Master, I sold confectionary in the market.