In the name of Allah the most Wise and the most Compassionate!  One day a man came to my humble shop with priceless antiquities.  He told me that he would give them to me on condition that I then sell them to a man named Besart, who would visit my shop in a few weeks.  How could I refuse such an opportunity for profit?  As the man had promised, a European named Besart visited my shop three weeks later and bought the items for a large sum of money.  I rejoiced in such a transaction!  Oh, yes, the items were three in number:  a crown that surely must have been worn by a Pharaoh, a head-and-shoulders bust in black stone of a man of stern visage, and a handwritten diary in English bound in the skin of an unknown beast.

Months later, the man returned to my shop with more items.  This time I was to sell them to an American named Carlyle.  I readily agreed.  When this man Carlyle came by a week later, he was in the company of other Europeans, including a woman.  Carlyle seemed very excited when I showed him the items and he practically threw money at me.  The items were five in number:  a papyrus scroll in a scrollcase, a small Nubian tambour bearing strange symbols, a necklace of silver and jet with a large opal, a silver mirror engraved with hieroglyphs around the rim, and a diadem such as Queen Cleopatra herself would have been proud to wear.   The items were in excellent condition and seemed of great antiquity.

Several months later a police inspector came by and asked if I knew anything about this man Carlyle and his companions.  I told him truthfully that I had sold Carlyle some items but had not seen him again.

Afterwards, I became fearful that the items might have been stolen and that I might have been an unwitting accomplice in a crime.  I made inquiries about the bazaar and learned the name of the man who had brought the items to my shop.  He was an Egyptian named Tewfik al-Sayed.  I then went to the mosque of Ibn-Talun to consult with the Nazir, a holy man of Islam named Achmed Zehavi.  He told me that this man Tewfik was an unbeliever, a worshipper of an evil being called the Black Pharaoh, and that any money received through him was tainted.  He advised me to burn the money I had received and have no further dealings with Tewfik.  I followed his advice and lived the life of a Believer thereafter, Praise be to Allah!