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It was shortly after this that the merchant died of a strange illness. Sadness filled the poor orphan’s

heart. She tried to console herself with the story of Prophet Job. Many tears were shed as Snow

White spent her nights in prayer.

Now that the merchant was gone, the stepmother began to do many horrid and dreadful things.

If she saw something she liked, she would take it by force, whether it was from a child or an elder.

And it was common for people to mysteriously disappear if she disliked something they said or did.

It came to be known that the stepmother practiced magic. At night strange words could be heard

from her room followed by a loud and wicked cackle. Poor Snow White would shake in her bed and

remember the verse in the Qur’an about those who studied magic,

And they learned what harmed them, not what profited them. And they knew that the buyers of

(magic) would have no share in the happiness of the Hereafter.1

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