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At the same moment the faithful who had gathered round him among whom were some of the inhabitants of the Bedouin village, for the presence of the hermit-saint in the foreigner's camp was known in one voice acclaimed ecstatically: "Allah! Allah! There is no strength nor power but in God. To God we belong, to Him we must return! God have mercy on him. La ilaha illallah."
That assimilatory urge is present in every activity from coarse ingestion as food to the moral metabolism of the hermit-saint who would influence others to do as he. In effect the history of Life resembles the life history of the smallest things we know of, the electrons, and the largest, the great suns and stars of space.
As a favoured of God, the clothes in which he would be buried would be forthcoming; he took no thought for the morrow. All his life, by Allah's guidance, men had provided for his simple wants. A hermit-saint is never without his devotees. As a welee he was worthy of a costly funeral, but the nature of his death demanded immediate burial. His fame would follow after.
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