one night, some time before prince majnun came to her father's kingdom, as she slept, khuda sent to her an angel in the form of a man who told her that she should marry prince majnun and no one else, and that this was khuda's command to her. when laili woke she told her father of the angel's visit to her as she slept; but her father paid no attention to her story. from that time she began repeating, "majnun, majnun; i want majnun," and would say nothing else. even as she sat and ate her food she kept saying, "majnun, majnun; i want majnun." her father used to get quite vexed with her. "who is this majnun? who ever heard of this majnun?" he would say.