In the middle of that nightthe people of the village heard the damsel give a great cryand she in her bed；so they flocked to her and questioned her of her case. Quoth she'As I sleptthe Muslim [who ye wot of] came in to me and taking me by the handcarried me to the gate of Paradise；but the keeper denied me entrancesaying'It is forbidden to unbelievers.'
So I embraced Islam at his hands and entering with himbeheld therein palaces and treessuch as I cannot describe to you.
Moreoverhe brought me to a pavilion of jewels and said to me，'This is my pavilion and thinenor will I enter it except with thee；butafter five nightsthou shalt be with me thereinif it be the will of God the Most High.'Thenputting his hand to a tree that grew at the door of the pavilionhe plucked therefrom two apples and gave them to mesaying'Eat this and keep the otherthat the monks may see it.'So I ate one of them and never tasted I aught sweeter than it. Then he took my hand and carried me back to my house；and when I awokeI found the taste of the apple in my mouth and the other in my hand.'
So sayingshe brought out the appleand it shone in the darkness of the nightas it were a sparkling star. So they carried her to the monasterywhere she repeated to us her vision and showed us the apple；never saw we its like among all the fruits of the world. Then I took a knife and cut the apple into as many pieces as we were folk in the company；and never knew we aught more delicious than its taste nor sweeter than its scent；but we said'Haply this was a devil that appeared to herto seduce her from her faith.'Then her people took her and went away；but she abstained from eating and drinking till the fifth nightwhen she rose from her bed and going forth the village to the grave of the young Muslimthrew herself upon it and died.