Confident of my innocence, I could calmly await the time when the truth would be made known.

That hour, Ali Ben Taleb, has come.
"The second point, which I particularly desire to impress upon your mind, is this: You are pleased to say that I was instrumental in snatching your beloved child from the jaws of death.

Be it so.

Consider, then, what would have been the result had this misfortune never happened to me, if I had always remained in my husband's home." "Great is Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet, but I fear I should have lost my child," declares the Moor.
"You see the ways of Allah are past finding out.

I have long since learned to trust myself to the guidance of a power stronger than human arms.
"You talk of avenging my wrongs, but time has already done that.