One day, when Dakianos was in the height of his splendour, an old man arose from beneath the throne upon which he was seated. The King, amazed, asked him who he was. He was an unbelieving genie, but, far from confessing it,
"I am," he answered, "a prophet of God: I obey His orders by coming to you. Know, therefore, that He has made me the god of the heavens, and that He ordains that you should be the god of the earth."
Dakianos answered him, "Who will believe that I am so?"
And the genie immediately disappeared.
Sometime after, Dakianos had again the same apparition, and the genie repeated to him the same things; but he answered him,
"You deceive me. How can I be the god of the earth?"
"Your power, your great actions, and the care that Allah has taken of you, ought to persuade you; b
