التاريخ اليميني 46.11

46.11

The forsaken ones kept whispering among themselves, having seen their own swords glance off while the swords of the people of truth cut into them, their charges feeble while the charges of the people of religion came first and second: "These are not of the race of men nor of the throngs of humankind. Alas! The stroke of iron cuts even into mountains, yet it makes no cut in these heroes." When the form of their tyranny appeared to them in the shape of defeat, they urged one another to plunge into the swollen waters behind them, thinking these would shield them from the force of vengeance and protect them from the cup of death. Do they not see that unbelief does not guide its path, and that God destroys by His many what His few bring to life! No wonder, then, that the sheets of water joined the blades of the multitude: they were slain and taken captive in great numbers, and they were drowned and then made to enter the Fire. The number of the slain and the drowned may well have exceeded fifty thousand, who became food for vultures and hyenas and sustenance for crocodiles and fish.