“Muhammed is God’s prophet,” also clearly rang.
When Abū-Jahl this heard, he cast the stones away,
In anger from his hand, as then he dared to say:
“Most surely no magician ever was like thee.
Magicians’ chief art thou; crown on their heads thou’lt be.”265
May dust alight upon his head, blind miscreant!
’Twas Satan closed his inward sight;—cursed recusant.
Now turn we once again to hear the minstrel’s tale,
For all this time he’s waiting; anxious, wan, and pale.
The heavenly voice the Caliph called: “Ho! ‘Umer! Ho!