Miraculous Happenings in the Year of the Elephant

The greedy and power-hungry vice-gerent Abrahah intends to divert the world's pilgrims from the Ka'ba, the House of Allah, in Makkah, to the cathedral his slaves have built for him. But when the cathedral's spires slice the brilliant Yemini skies and the magnificent doors are opened, the throngs Abrahah has been boasting about do not arrive.

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The greedy and power-hungry vice-gerent Abrahah intends to divert the world's pilgrims from the Ka'ba, the House of Allah, in Makkah, to the cathedral his slaves have built for him. But when the cathedral's spires finally slice the brilliant Yemini skies and the magnificent doors are opened, the throngs Abrahah has been boasting about do not arrive. In a rage, he vows to destroy the Ka'ba, but Allah, the Causer of all causes has other plans. True happenings, stranger by far than fiction, demonstrate that if he says "Be!" it is, it surely is.