264 MORE, GIVE ME MORE. 



how can he have daughters when he has no spouse ? 

 He begetteth not, neither is he begotten. There is 

 none but he. beware ye idolators of the time that 

 is to come, when the sun shall be folded up, when the 

 stars shall fall, when the mountains shall be made to 

 pass away, when the children's hair shall grow white 

 with anguish, when souls like locust swarms shall 

 rise from their graves, when the girl who hath been 

 buried alive shall be asked for what crime she was put 

 to death, when the books shall be laid open, when 

 every soul shall know what it hath wrought. the 

 striking ! the striking ! when men shall be scattered 

 as moths in the wind. And then Allah shall cry to 

 Hell, Art thou filled full ? And Hell shall cry to 

 Allah, More, give me more ! 



But there followed him everywhere a squint-eyed 

 man, fat, with flowing locks on both sides of his. head, 

 and clothed in raiment of fine Aden stuff. When 

 Mahomet had finished his sermon, he would say, 

 " This fellow's object is to draw you away from the 

 gods to his fanciful ideas ; wherefore follow him not, 

 O my brothers, neither listen to him. And who 

 should this be but his uncle, Abu Laheb ! Whereupon 

 the strangers would reply, Your own kinsmen ought to 

 know you best. Why do they not believe you, if what 

 you say is true ? In return for these kind offices, 

 Mahomet promised his uncle that he should go down 

 to be burned in flaming fire, and that his wife should 

 go too, bearing a load of wood, with a cord of twisted 

 palm fibres round her neck. 



And now two great sorrows fell upon Mahomet. 

 He lost almost at the same time his beloved wife, and 

 the noble-hearted parent of his clan. The successor of 

 Abu Talib continued the protection, yet Mahomet felt 



