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ed and lay still. The Prophet’s [s]
friends came to look at them, and
stroke the birds’ feathers with their
fingers.
They were very gentle with the
birds, because the Prophet [s] had
always told them that they must
treat living creatures kindly and gen-
tly. They did not mean to harm the
birds. They just wanted to have a
close look at them.
But the mother bird, flying round
and round high above their heads,
did not know this. She thought the
men meant to kill her babies, or at
least keep them as captives. So,
she cried and shrieked and kept on
swooping down near the men, trying
to make them let go of the two little
birds.
The men waved their arms to keep
her away, and before long, the
