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ABRAHAM TO MOSES.
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he went away and left Abraham to sell his idols, When-
ever a buyer came, Abraham asked him his age. If he
replied, I am fifty, or sixty years old, Abraham said : ' Woe
to the man of sixty who desires to worship the work of a
day, so that the buyer went away ashamed.'[1] Once a woman
came, with a dish of wheat and said, c Here, put this before
them ; ' but Abraham took a stick and beat down all the .
- ↑ Abulfeda (Hist. Anteislámica, page 20) says :
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"Azar the father of Abraham made idols and served them and bade
Abraham sell them, but Abraham, said; 'Who would buy that which
harms him and does him no good?'"
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