I have narrated a strange story in this sense about a Jew who told me about Musa bin Muhammad al-Qurtubi, the domes of the muezzin in the Grand Mosque of Mecca, and the minaret at Bab al-Hazourah and Bab Ajyad, may God have mercy on him, in the year five hundred and ninety-nine. He said: There was a man in Kairouan who wanted to perform Hajj, but his mind wandered as he traveled between land and sea for a while. The land will prevail for him, and at a certain time the sea will prevail for him. So he said: If tomorrow morning is the first man to meet him, I will consult him, then where he will prevail for me, I will judge him. The first person who met him was a Jew. Then he resolved and said, “By God, I will ask him.” He said, “O Jew, I will consult with you on this journey of mine. Should I walk on land or in the sea?” So the Jew said to him, “Glory be to Him.” God, and in such a situation, someone like you asks: Have you not seen that God says to you in your Book, “He is the one