He fell in love with her at first sight.[20]
He returned to his mother. His mother spoke to him, but he did not reply and did not eat. So she asked, “O my son, what happened to you? Are you sick?”
Then Aladdin turned to his mother and said to her, “O my mother, I am well, and not sick at all. But I saw the daughter of the Sultan. I fell in love with her. I want to marry her!”
When his mother heard his words she feared, “O my son! You are mad. She is the Sultan’s daughter.”
Aladdin answered, “No, I’m not mad. I will win the lovely princess! I cannot live without her. I will marry her.”
His mother said to him, “But who will tell Sultan about it? You can not tell him yourself. You must find a right person.[21]”
Aladdin answered, “I have you! Please, ask the Sultan about his daughter.”
His mother said, “Cast away[22] this thought, and think whose son you are. You are the child of a poor tailor. And I am very poor, too. So how can you ask about marriage to a daughter of the Sultan?”
But at last she agreed to go.
His mother took a napkin and laid in it the magic fruits from the magical garden. They shone like the most beautiful jewels. She entered the palace hall. But the Sultan did not notice her.
She went every day and stood in the same place.
On the sixth day the Sultan said to his vizir:
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