His word is as the centre of the world.

Ye have no hope, because ye see the hawks among the starving sheep.

But the shepherd will return from behind the hill, and the hawks will flee away.
"...

Behold, once was I in the desert.

Listen, for mine are the words of one who hath travelled far--was I not at Damascus and Palmyra and Bagdad, and at Medina by the tomb of Mahomet ?" Reverently he touched the green turban on his head, evidence of his journey to Mahomet's tomb.