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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful--the Smiting! / A day when the soul shall know what it has sent on or kept back. / A day when no soul shall control aught for another. / And the bidding belongs to God. -THE KORAN.
Now the Shah-in-Shah, Shah Jahan, Emperor in India, loved his wife with a great love. And of all the wives of the Mogul Emperors surely this Lady Arjemand, Mumtaz-i-Mahal---the Chosen of the Palace--was the most worthy of love. In the tresses of her silk-soft hair his heart was bound, and for none other had he so much as a passing thought since his soul had been submerged in her sweetness. Of her he said, using the words of the poet Faisi,--