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knife at his throat, brings the immigrant snivelling and whimpering to the takht. "I found him, where else, with a whore, who was screeching at him because he didn't have the money to pay her. He stinks of alcohol."
"Salman Farsi," the Prophet begins to pronounce the sentence of death, but the prisoner begins to shriek the qalmah: "La ilaha ilallah! La ilaha!"
Mahound shakes his head. "Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. Did you think I wouldn't work it out? To set your words against the Words of God."
Scribe, ditch-digger, condemned man: unable to muster the smallest scrap of dignity, he blubbers whimpers pleads beats his breast abases himself repents. Khalid says: "This noise is unbearable, Messenger. Can I not cut off his head?" At which the noise increases sharply. Salman swears renewed loyalty, begs
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