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And then, without warning, Hamza says to Mahound: "Go ask Gibreel," and he, the dreamer, feels his heart leaping in alarm, who, me? I'm supposed to know the answers here? I'm specified. Salman shakes his head. "This is being done to destroy you." And Bilal adds: "God cannot be four." And Khalid, close to tears: "Messenger, what are you saying? Lat, Manat, Uzza -- they're all _females!_ For pity's sake! Are we to have goddesses now? Those old cranes, herons, hags?"
Misery strain fatigue, etched deeply into the Prophet's face. Which Hamza, like a soldier on a battlefield comforting a wounded friend, cups between his hands. "We can't sort this out for you, nephew," he says. "Climb the mountain. Go ask Gibreel." speaks very gently to the water--carrier. "Wasn't it you, Khalid, who wanted to fight me just now because you wrongly assumed that, when I called the Messenger a man, I was really calling him a weakling? Now what? Is it my turn to challenge you to a fight?"
Mahound begs for peace
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