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Let us return to what we were about. When the Khalif heard her reply, he rose to his feet and said, 'By the Lord of the Kaabeh, thou hast said well, O Taweddud! Then said Ibrahim, 'What means the poet, when he says: Slender of skirts and slim of shape and sweet of taste it is, Most like unto the spear, except it lacks of the spontoon.
How shall I underlie a boy, who will be hasty with me in emission and forestall me in flaccescence, and leave a man, who, when he takes breath, clips close and when he enters, goes leisurely, and when he has done, repeats, and when he pushes, pushes hard, and as often as he withdraws, returns?" The other was edified by her speech and said, "I forswear my lover by the Lord of the Kaabeh!"
Yet they may have been stirred to devotion and contrition at the time as they circled the Kaabeh reciting such special prayers as, "O God, I extend my hands to Thee, great is my longing towards Thee.
The yearly pilgrimage to Mecca, which was at once the center of trade and the goal of the religious enthusiast, was observed by all the tribes of Arabia, but it is a question whether the pilgrimage was not more often made in a holiday spirit than in that of the devotee to the Kaabeh, the most sacred temple in all Arabia.
"By the Lord of the Kaabeh," replied Subbah, "from this time forth I will call thee nought but 'My lord!" Then he ran on before the horse with his sword hanging from his neck and his budget between his shoulder-blades, and they pushed on into the desert four days' space, eating of the gazelles they caught and drinking of the water of the springs.
Next year it befell that I made the pilgrimage to Mecca, and as I was compassing the Holy House, behold, I saw Abdulmesih the monk also making the circuit of the Kaabeh, and with him five of his fellows, the monks. "It was a wonder of wonders," answered he; "and befell thus.
Then came forward the skilled physician and said to her, 'We have done with theology and come now to physiology. His breast was made of the earth of the Kaabeh, his head of earth from the East and his legs of earth from the West.
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