One thousand and one nights: 4 part

She said: It has reached me, O happy king, that before the caliphate of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, there was a king in the city of Damascus called Omar al-Nu'man. He was one of the great tyrants who had conquered the kings of the Chosroes and the Caesars. No fire could warm him, and no one could compete with him in a racecourse. When he became angry, flames of fire would come out of his nostrils. He had ruled all the regions. He executed his rule in all the villages and cities. All the servan...