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numbers of the faithful multiply, like a crop that miraculously flourishes as conditions of soil and climate grow worse and worse.
An offer is received, from the citizens of the oasis--settlement of Yathrib to the north: Yathrib will shelter those--who-submit, if they wish to leave Jahilia. Hamza is of the opinion that they must go. "You'll never finish your Message here, nephew, take my word. Hind won't be happy till she's ripped out your tongue, to say nothing of my balls, excuse me." Mahound, alone and full of echoes in the house of his bereavement, gives his consent, and the faithful depart to make their plans. Khalid the water-carrier hangs back and the hollow-eyed Prophet waits for him to speak. Awkwardly, he says: "Messenger, I doubted you. But you were wiser than we knew. First we said, Mahound will never compromise, and you compromised. Then we said, Mahound has betrayed us, but you were bringing us a deeper truth. You brought us the Devil himself, so that we could witness the workings of the Evil One, and
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