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“
You cannot help me nor can you
harm,”
Ibrahim again said
, “Why,
you cannot even swot a small fly off
your thick, stony head
.”
The idols were still silent because
they were stones which cannot do a
single a thing, not even speak.
“
What stops you from speaking?
”
Ibrahim shouted out. The idols
remained silent and lbrahim
became angry. He grabbed an axe-
and smashed them all, except one.
He left the largest idol standing
there and hung the axe round its
neck.
CHAPTER 3
At the end of the day the people
returned and went straight to the
huge temple in the city, the temple
