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whose hands and feet had been amputated killed a millipede, and a pious passer-by exclaimed: "Praised be Allah! In spite of the thousand feet he possessed, he could not escape from a man without hands and feet when his fate had overtaken him."

When the life-taking foe comes in the rear, fate ties the legs of a running man. At the moment when the enemy has slowly arrived, it is useless to draw the Kayanian bow.