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you need, when they can neither
hear nor see nor speak? They can
neither help nor harm even the
smallest being, neither can they eat
nor can they drink and so I say, why
do you place food and wine before
them, each and every day?
“
Azar became angry, for after all, he
could not reply to these very simple
questions. And what is sadder still,
is that he refused to understand
what all these questions meant.
Ibrahim [a] then tried to give other
people the same good advice, but
they too became angry and refused
to understand what it all meant.
“
How am I going to make people
understand?
” Ibrahim [a] thought to
himself, and then he struck upon a
very clever plan. “I will smash the
idols to pieces when the people are
away,” Ibrahim [a] said to himself,
