Around himself revolve, who smallest compass takes.
The fools saw him alone; thence judged him some weak thing!
Weak can he ever be who’s upheld by the King?
Those fools thought: “He’s a man. He’s really nothing more.”[301]
Alas, for fools! They’re void of common sense in store.265
The prophet Sālih’s camel was, in form, a beast;[302]
His people her hamstrung; ’twas ignorance, at least.
They cut her off from water; drink they her refused.
Ungrateful such return for meat and drink they’d used!
“God’s camel” drank the water brought as dew by mists.