Ramadan Arabian Nights 2020 : Tale of King Magedwon “Few days to live” Ep.2

Here we are on the second night of our Radio Arabian Nights this year.
We will continue our tale for this year, the tale of King Magedwon.
First of all, You can refresh your mind with what happened last night here.
Second of all, I am to speak about a little bit our tale this year.
It is the second tale written by late novelist Abbas Al-Aswani to be aired in our annual podcast here in Egyptian Chronicles.
The first time we met him in 2016 with the Saga of King Rokn El-Zaman.
Abbas Al-Aswani is the father of best-selling novelist Alaa Al-Aswani. Aside from being a novelist, Abbas Al-Aswani wrote for Egyptian state radio in the 1960s and 1970s drama shows above them Our favourite One Thousand and One Nights.
Anyhow enough of the Chitchat here is tonight episode.
It is the second episode in our tale and the 734th night in the nights of our Egyptian Radio show.
You can hear it after the break.


And Bakhityshou tells King Magedwon the meaning of his disturbing dream after checking what the stars said.
Magedwon will die after 10 days, he is human after all and this is what the stars told Bakhityshou
The astrologer tells Magedwon to do what he should as a king in those remaining days.
King Magedwon orders Bakhityshou to keep his mouth shut otherwise he will throw him to jail.
Then we are introduced to King Magedwon’s son prince Karim El-Din and his cousin who is in love with him Yasmin.

Lovers at the sea by Edmund Dulac

She was raised by Magedwon and his family after the death her parents tragically. 

Back to the Royal court, Magedwon summons his vizier Shamdwan to tell him that he decided to make his son marry his cousin Yasmin and to crown him as officially a successor within a week. 

Clueless Shamdwan is in shock because it turned out that he wanted both Yasmine and the throne.
Quickly Shamdwan begins to tell his King that he should not do make Karim his successor right now for fear it will spoil him.

He also advised him not to go to forward with the marriage because Karim should not be busy with women and etc.

Magedwon tells his Vizier that he could be right but time has its say and he should not debate him long; he should go and prepare the arrangements for the marriage and the succession ceremonies ASAP.

Angry and sad, Shamdwan discusses with his assistant Mawood his disappointment and the wicked assistant tells him that Bakhityshou, the famous astrologer was in the King’s court from a short time. Thus the two men agreed to pay him a visit to know what he told the king.

Disguised as merchants, Shamwdwan and Mawood went to the famous Bakhityshou. Shamdwan gives Bakhityshou his palm hand to read it and the famous astrologer knows there is something wrong. 

“This is a palm hand of a VIP who reaches eventually to what he wants by iron and blood but beware of killing a woman because you will die after killing this woman after one hour in a hall,” He tells greedy Shamdwan.

Then Shamdwan orders him to tell him what he told Magedwon but Bakhityshou rejects even with the promise of money and threats.
Then a dagger comes out and then …..

We will know tomorrow what happens to our astrologer.