| |
| | The Caliphate: Its Rise, Decline, and Fall - From Original Sources [Chapter 5] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Khalid, hearing the uproar, hurried forth; but all was over, and he retired exclaiming, "When the Lord hath determined a thing, the same cometh verily to pass." But the fate of Malik was not thus easily to be set at rest. |
 | | Khalid, unaware whether Abu Bekr might not be of the same mind, answered not a word but passed into the Caliph's presence. |
 | | The wild Bedawin entered the tent of Khalid, and, but for the chivalry of her captive, who conjured his countrymen to spare a lady of noble birth, Leila would have perished by their swords. |
| answering-islam.org /Books/Muir/Caliphate/chap5.htm (5197 words) |
|