“Devote yourselves to God and assign Him no partners, for the person who does so is like someone who has been hurled down from the skies and snatched up by the birds or flung to a distant place by the wind. …
“We have made camels part of God’s sacred rites for you, … so invoke God’s name over them as they are lined up for sacrifice. … It is neither their meat nor their blood that reaches God but your piety.” (Quran, 22:31, 36–37)
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The Commonplace Notebook 