The high priest’s face twisted. “You, a nobody, dare to shame our gods?”
Hasan, the gentlest of them, spoke to the weavers in their workshops. “You are in clear loss. Your idols cannot hear your prayers. If they cannot hear, how can they save you?” surah yasin 1-20
The crowd swelled. Stones were gathered. The messengers stood in the dust, unarmed, reciting the verses they had been given. The high priest’s face twisted