It tells the story of a princess who summons into her room a prince named Sobur (Arabic: "Patience"), or variations thereof, by the use of a magical fan.
As the princess grows up, the queen learns that her daughter can produce bricks of silver and gold with every step she takes, and keeps them stored.
The king agrees and they bring in his seventh daughter, bricks of gold and silver appearing with every step and flowers falling from her lips.
The king makes peace with queen and the princess, forgiving his previous order, and enjoys his youngest's company, since she saved the kingdom.
The princess spends her days with the prince, and rumours of their meetings reach her elder sisters' ears, who become even more jealous of her.
Thus, they feign friendship and decide to learn about the mysterious prince, and even prepare a bed for him, where they place glass.
Just as he lies on the bed, the glass hurts his body and he bleeds all over, so the princess waves the fan to send him back to his country.
She then decides to search for him in his home country, wears masculine clothes and ventures into jungles until she can find him.
[2] The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type 432, "The Prince as Bird",[3][4] albeit in a form that exists in South Asia.
In these variants, the heroine's father brings her a fan, which she uses to summon the magical prince whose name translates to 'Wait' or the like.
The princess and the beggar take the rest of the chests from the hole, also filled with gems and jewels, save for a seventh box that contains a beautifully ornate fan with gold and pearl.
The princess spends time with the fairy prince, and waves the fan to both summon and send him back.
One day, the princess bids the beggar man invites her father and sisters for a meal at her palace, and asks him not to reveal anything about her, for she will wear a disguise.
One night, they spy on the princess summoning Prince Sabr, and decide to hurt him by placing broken glass on a bed, since fairy people have "delicate skin" that bleeds easily.
[13][14] In a tale from Pakistan with the title The Patient Princess, a king thinks he holds the destinies of his family and subjects in his hands.
The messenger reports back to the king that his daughter uttered the word "Sabar", which they think is the name of the object she wants to be procured.
The king goes abroad and meets a person named Prince Sabar, who gives him a chest with a fan inside.
On the same day, he returns from the hunt and goes to sleep a bit, when the trap springs and his body is hurt by the glass shards.
After the birds fly away, Sabira follows their instructions, prepares the remedy for Sabar and the sandals, and crosses the river until she reaches a city.
Sabar appears, now fully restored, and complains that he did warn her about her sisters, but is fortunate enough to have been cured by the Hakim.
An old shopkeeper appears to the king, claiming to have the "patience", and shows him a tin cylinder with a paper fan inside.
She takes the paper fan out of the cylinder, and the object jumps out of her hand, turning into a human male.
The man explains he is the prince of Iran, turned into a fan by a jealous witch, and now the princess broke his curse.