The Ocean of Light — Page 144
144 out every fool and ruffian to malign me and to cause discord among my people like the accursed Satan. And they do not even apologise for it nor express remorse, rather they continue to grow in their ignorance and have stepped forth in open hostility and war. They eschewed reconciliation and peace, denigrated me, and labelled me as worthless. They said that I was ignorant and did not know Arabic; rather that I was illiterate and did not know a single verb of Arabic. However, when I took solid steps to counter them, they turned tail and ran, like donkeys run from lions and cowards from arrows. They saw in me that which toddlers see when they are stricken with terror, which the sparrows see in the hawk when it swoops down on them from mountain peaks. They thought that I was a goat without horns, but when they were struck by my horns, they shouted that this is a horned bull. Whosoever from among them came towards me armed, I turned him into a bald tree. Since they had set their hounds on