Alla ad Deen received these praises from the sultan with modesty, and replied in these words:  “Sir, it is a great honour to me to deserve your majesty’s good-will and approbation, and I assure you, I shall study to deserve them more.”

The sultan returned to his palace, but would not let Alla ad Deen attend him.  When he came there, he found his grand vizier waiting, to whom he related the wonder he had witnessed, with the utmost admiration, and in such terms as left the minister no room to doubt but that the facet was as the sultan related it; though he was the more confirmed in his belief, that Alla ad Deen’s palace was the effect of enchantment, as he had told the sultan the first moment he saw it.  He was going to repeat the observation, but the sultan interrupted him, and said, “You told me so once before; I see, vizier, you have not forgotten your son’s espousals to my daughter.”  The frank vizier plainly saw how much the sultan was prepossessed, therefore avoided disputes and let him remain in his own opinion.  The sultan as soon as he rose every morning went into the closet, to look at Alla ad Deen’s palace, and would go many times in a day to contemplate and admire it.

Alla ad Deen did not confine himself in his palace; but took care to shew himself once or twice a week in the town, by going sometimes to one mosque, and sometimes to another, to prayers, or to visit the grand vizier, who affected to pay his court to him on certain days, or to do the principal lords of the court the honour to return their visits after he had regaled them at his palace.  Every time he went out, he caused two slaves, who walked by the side of his horse, to throw handfuls of money among the people as he passed through the streets and squares, which were generally on those occasions crowded.  Besides, no one came to his palace gates to ask alms, but returned satisfied with his liberality.  In short, he so divided his time, that not a week passed but he went either once or twice a hunting, sometimes in the environs of the city, sometimes farther off; at which time the villages through which he passed felt the effects of his generosity, which gained him the love and blessings of the people:  and it was common for them to swear by his head.  Thus, without giving the ]east umbrage to the sultan, to whom he paid all imaginable respect, Alla ad Deen, by his affable behaviour and liberality, had won the affections of the people, and was more beloved than the sultan himself.  With all these good qualities he shewed a courage and a zeal for the public good which could not be sufficiently applauded.  He gave sufficient proofs of both in a revolt on the borders of the kingdom; for he no sooner understood that the sultan was levying an army to disperse the rebels than he begged the command of it, which he found not difficult to obtain.  As soon as he was empowered, he marched with so much expedition, that the sultan heard of the defeat of the rebels before he had received an account of his arrival in the army.  And though this action rendered his name famous throughout the kingdom, it made no alteration in his disposition; but he was as affable after his victory as before.