camels

For if a company disagreed over ʻAmr ibn al-ʻĀṣ's conquest of Egypt — one of them saying that he took it by treaty, others saying that he took it by force, others that he came to it with four thousand fighting men, others that he came rather with ten thousand, and others disagreeing over whether the Arabs came to it upon horses or upon camels — would that indicate that Egypt was not conquered?

their men are bound fast in the rings of captivity and their women are captives mounted behind upon the packs of the camels» (1).

for if it were admissible that the Arabs should name themselves after an animal and worship it, “the camel (*al-jamal*)” or “the camel (*al-baʻīr*)” would have had the better claim, given how they cannot do without it and how old its place is among them — and yet there is no tribe named after it save this Bakr!

He also had a large number of camels, some collected from among his friends and some taken in war, all brought together.

Or again, if you heard that they have camels on which they will ride up to us, and a hundred horses could not endure the sight of any one of them?

For the camel corps, bowmen were detailed, two upon each camel.

And the ant and the camel imagine a need in the future and so store up, while they are ignorant and do not distinguish between the property of Zayd and of Khālid, nor between the impure and the pure.

In it is the greed of the dung-beetle and the pig, the ruinousness of the wolf and the leopard, the harmfulness of the scorpion and the snake, the lust of the cock and the ass, and the craving of the camel and the ox in eating;

The brother in charge of the camels I commend to you.

As Xerxes marched by this route, lions attacked the camels which carried his provisions;

So beware, O man, of being a thicket within your own frame, holding a snake that strikes and a scorpion that stings, a leopard that tears and a camel that nurses rancour, a dog that dodges and a hare that turns coward before the truth, thorns and thistles that hurt, a lion that preys, and an ape with no portion but mimicry.

Nothing has parted loved ones, after God — save the camels And people blame the raven of separation — because they were ignorant Nor is it upon the back of the raven of separation — that the saddle is bound Nor, when a raven cries out in the dwellings — do they set off And the raven of separation is nothing — but a she-camel or a camel

if it is said that God is able to create a camel that speaks Arabic and recites poems, this does not entitle us to judge that this has come about so long as we have not made sure of it

or were you to see a camel in a caravanserai, there is no doubt that you would not judge that it was the camel that designed and built it.