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The narrator continues: Then I cried to him, "O son of my brother! repent of thy sin, and return unto thy Lord, for verily the terrors of the Judgment Day await thee."

But he exclaimed, "Get thee hence! I shall not know fear until the Kárazhan returns."

Nevertheless, I did not cease importuning him until the morning star rose, when I said, "Let us to the Ahzâb mosque."