Our Beloved Master - His Early Life — Page 135
•oUR BELoVED MASTER• 135 There is another instance of the inhabitants of Arabia getting into petty quarrels. Once there was a horse race taking place. The horse, whose name was D a his, was about to take the lead in the race when a troublemaker scared the horse. This action led to a war that lasted not for one or two years, but for a total of sixty-three years in which many tribes were completely destroyed and killed. A person from the tribe of Ban u Kin a nah took a loan from a man of the tribe of Na d ar. After asking for repayment a number of times, the person that gave the loan took a monkey to a fair that was called ‘Uk az. He stood in the middle of the fair and said: I sell this worthless monkey, because of the debt owed to me by a person from the tribe of Ban u Na d ar. Is there anyone who will buy this monkey from me? The people of Ban u Na d ar did not like this at all. One person from the tribe of Ban u Na d ar crept up behind the monkey and dealt him a powerful blow with a stick. The blow was so powerful that the monkey fell to the ground and died instantly. Immediately, swords were drawn from both sides and the tribes prepared to fight and die. If not for the intervention of wise elders, the fairgrounds would have become a battlefield. Through