Part IX

The flying camel
Aboriginally not from Sicily (actually an autonomous region of Italy), Hazrat magnanimously tasted some piccalilli and spitefully spitted out the onions and chili and traveled vagrantly in the Necropolis of Pantalica in south-eastern Sicily (which is actually an autonomous region of Italy) before reaching the Grotta dei pipistrelli (Cavern of the Bats) and then further traveling to the Phlegraean Fields of the Strait of Sicily. Alarmingly feeling bewilderedly disorientedly navigationally, the lonely Hazrat eloquently and resentfully stated his position officially.

A letter was delivered to the Kingdom of Awsan in South Arabia with a capital at Hagar Yahirr in the wadi Markha, to the south of the wadi Bayhan by a former Italian Hazrat, who was deprived of his Hazratship after he triturated a marinated mammalian from the family of Camelidae.

To,
The Dearest Sheikh Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah,
The Pangolins of Africa haunt me in my slumber; I defy slumber by hallucinating an even-toed ungulates from the mammal order Artiodactyla. Your constipated Hazrat feels abandoned and isolated as the queen feels suffocated and writes your name belated. The Sicilian vegetarians have started a malicious campaign against your Hazrat and term him as an anthophagous (feeding on flowers), baccivorous (feeding on berries), carpophagous (feeding on fruit) and saprophagous (feeding on dead or decaying animal matter). The survival of your poor herbivorous depends on the genocide of Sicilian colonies of population by trained carnivorous. I hope his highness take this matter under consideration.
Thanking you in anticipation,
Love Hazrat

Sheikh Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah read the letter and cried and along with him every brick from every wall of the holy kingdom cried; submerging the kingdom in water. A council for the resurrection and preservation of bricks and walls summoned Sheikh to explain the negligence of not realizing the consequences of his actions. The Sheikh requested the council to summon the queen saying she is the reason for his tears. The queen told the council that Sheikh is the reason of her tears and Hazrat is the reason for both of their tears. The council ordered Sheikh to summon Hazrat to explain reason for every shed tear.

Black magic became the source for summoning a creature from the Pleistocene epoch. The Pleistocene is the epoch from 2.588 million to 12000 years before present (BP) covering the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The Pleistocene epoch follows the Pliocene epoch and is followed by the Holocene epoch. The Pleistocene is the first epoch of the Quaternary period or 6th epoch of the Cenozoic Era. The end of the Pleistocene corresponds with the retreat of the last continental glacier. It also corresponds with the end of the Paleolithic age. The Pleistocene is divided into four stages or ages, the Gelasian, Calabrian, Ionian and Tarantian.

From the lavatory in the queen’s chamber a dromedary creature emerged. The Sheikh entitled the creature with knighthood and announced that the creature from now would be called as Sir Camel. The Camel was briefed to bring back Hazrat before the counsel alive.

Sir Camel set off on foot the next morning. The invention of caravanserai brought a smile on the Camel’s face as it knew Caravanserais provide water for human and animal consumption, washing, and ritual ablutions. The Camel also remembered Omar Khayyam who said:

“Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai
Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day,
How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
Abode his destined Hour, and went his way”

Therefore, Sir Camel made a stop at the Khan al-Tujjar near Mount Tabor. Mount Tabor is located in Lower Galilee, at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley, 17 kilometres west of the Sea of Galilee. The creature knew that the mountain is a horst, and is not volcanic. Therefore, after climbing the mountain and reaching the highest peak, the intelligent creature calculated the dynamics and derived an equation to glide his way through to the Necropolis of Pantalica. After chewing off the fur from his skin and pasting them on the leaves of a Raffia palm, the camel jumped off the cliff and fluttered its wings. Sir Camel crossed distances in various multiples of seas and reached Sicilia after one day of excursion. The students of modern aerodynamics still wonder and probe the flight of the creature that became the base for the modern wing design manufacturing in aeronautical engineering. Historians have written and titled the journey as “His first flight”

As the creature set his hoof on land it saw a man crying while lying near the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento. The man lying on the floor recognized the creature and realizing the significance of the creature’s travel; ran in the valley. The camel searched all seven temples including temple of Juno, temple of Concordia, temple of Heracles, temple of Zeus, temple of Castor and Pollux, temple of Vulcan and the temple of Asclepius but remained unable to find the Holy man.

With the first rays of sun the creature saw a man on the roof of the temple of Vulcan praying aloud and saying “O Lord forgive for my sins and perish me from this holy land as a messenger of death has encircled me; it has pointed wings, two humps and four hoofs.”

Lightening struck and Hazrat found himself standing in an ongoing session of the council for the resurrection and preservation of bricks and walls. The council ordered Hazrat to explain the reason for tears in the Holy Kingdom. At this point Hazrat cried and explained his innocence and said, “A dromedary creature is the reason behind every tear shed in the kingdom and outside the kingdom. The secret behind every shed tear is encrypted in a book stored in the hump of the even toed ungulates creature which is reluctant to offer its hump neither for the hungry carnivorous creatures of the kingdom nor for the secret book of tears; and also has the ability of transferring the book between its two humps.”

The council ordered Hazrat to produce the creature behind human lacrimation. Hazrat was never heard off since then. However, according to some other Hazrats, Hazrat is seen once every 100 years in a full moon on the back of a creature with wings made from the leaves of a Raffia palm.