The document is a passage from the short story "Night of Nights" by Ali Hazzah. It describes the narrator observing a man named Atef in the streets of Cairo on the night of Farouk's coronation. The narrator is drawn to follow Atef but is stopped by some boys. Later, the narrator finds Atef at a coffee shop and sits with him, where they are approached by a one-eyed soothsayer who claims to be able to reveal Atef's fate through numerology.