So he went and opened the first room, and saw an enormous horse, most wondrously beautiful.
When the horse saw Ali he neighed, and said to him, "What plan have you? Father said good-bye to you like that, saying that he would return on the fourteenth day, to deceive you. He will come back to eat you on the eighth day."
Then he said, "Go and open all the rooms, and then return here that I may advise you."
Ali went and opened the second room, and saw seven maidens, sitting each one in a box and reading a Koran. Their hair was long and very beautiful.
Ali asked them, "How now?"
Those maidens answered him, "We have been put here so that we may be eaten together with you. We have been lost to our parents many years."
He locked that room and went and opened the third. There he found swords with jewelled hilts fighting in the air by themselves, and he was very astonished.
Ali locked up the third room again, and now there were three rooms he had not yet opened.
He opened the fourth room, and found it filled from top to bottom with precious stones. Then he opened the fifth room, and found it full of grain; this was the horse's food.
He then went and unlocked the sixth room, and there he found the horse's saddle and bridle, adorned with jewels, and he found seven bottles; the first was full of sun, the second of rain, the third of needles, the fourth of hail, the fifth of thorns, the sixth of mud, and the seventh of sea.