Translations:The Parable of the Camel and the Lion/5/en

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Then from the sands a song of praise was sounded, and the air caught the song and brought it to them, and the song was so frightful that all the pilgrims except for the fiercest one Abd Uzza fled. And the lion burst forth from death and struck the she-camel biting down and killing it and Abd Uzza looked at the body and found that it was rotting and then he returned to his fellow pilgrims and they said to him ‘What did you see?’ and he said unto him ‘I saw wisdom’.