Mission to the Volga. Ahmad Ibn Fadlan

“that He wants you to declare ‘There is no god but God.’” “Well, if we knew Him, we’d do it,” he said with a laugh.¹⁴

      17 We came to a place where there was a huge quantity of ṭāgh wood and stopped. The members of the caravan lit fires and got them going. They took their clothes off and dried them by the fires.¹⁵ Then we departed, traveling as quickly and with as much energy as we could manage, from midnight until the midday or afternoon prayer, when we would stop for a rest. After fifteen nights of this,¹⁶ we came to a huge rocky mountain. Springs of water ran down it and gathered to form a lake at its foot.

The Ghuzziyyah