Now an old man, Ayub returns to his home. Before Ayub leaves, the div, sympathetic to Ayub’s guilt, gives him a bottle of liquid that makes him forget that he ever had a son named Qais. Reluctantly, Baba Ayub decides to let Qais stay. It gives Ayub two options: take Qais home, or allow him to stay. The div explains to Baba Ayub that it has provided Qais with a wonderful home and a good education. Eventually, he traces the div to a beautiful palace, in which he finds Qais playing happily with his friends. Ayub, furious with himself for giving up his own child, decides to hunt down the div. In the fairy tale, a farmer named Baba Ayub is forced to sacrifice his favorite son, Qais, to an evil spirit called the div. In the first chapter, told from the perspective of the Afghan laborer Saboor, Saboor tells his two children, Abdullah and Pari, a fairy tale before they go to sleep. The novel is broken into nine chapters, each told from the perspective of a different character.
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