and fared on their way to the Island of the Jinn.

When the bride beheld the journey (and indeed it was long upon
her) and saw not her husband in all this time since the night of
the bridal, she turned to Mubarek and said to him, "God upon
thee, O Mubarek, tell me, I conjure thee by the life of thy lord
the Amir, are we yet far from the dominions [FN#132] of my
bridegroom, the Amir Zein ul Asnam?" And he said to her, "Alack,
O my lady, it irketh me for thee and I will discover to thee that
which is hidden. To wit, thou deemest that Zein ul Asnam, King of
Bassora, is thy bridegroom. Far be it! [FN#133] He is not thy
bridegroom. The writing of the writ of his marriage with
thee [FN#134] was but a pretext before thy parents and the folk;
and now thou art going for a bride to the King of the Jinn, who
sought thee from the Amir Zein ul Asnam." When the young lady
heard these words, she fell a-weeping and Zein ul Asnam heard her
and fell a-weeping also, a sore weeping, of the excess of his
love for her. And she said to them, "Is there no pity in you and
no clemency and have you no fear of God, that I, a stranger maid,
you cast me into a calamity like this? What answer will you give
unto God [FN#135] concerning this treason that you have wroughten
with me?"

But her weeping and her words availed her nothing, and they
ceased not to fare on with her till they came to the King of the
Jinn, to whom they straightway presented her. When he beheld her,
she pleased him and he turned to Zein ul Asnam and said to him.
"Verily, the girl whom thou hast brought me is exceeding in
beauty and surpassing in loveliness; but the goodliness of thy
loyalty and shine overmastering of thyself for my sake is fairer