No camel knows of God until he dies
-A Dictionary of Arabic and Islamic Proverbs, Paul Lunde
I cannot imagine what the Dabouka made of our drovers when assuming the five positions of prayer…Takbīr, Standing with Hands at Ears; Qiyām, Standing with Hands at Waist; Rukū’, Bowing; Sujūd, Kneeling with Head Prostration; and Julūs, Kneeling on Haunches. Did camels too accept Islam, Submission, when couching and uncouching themselves, folding and unfolding their crazily articulated hock and hip joints? After forty days on the Darb and facing slaughter in Egypt, what more was there for them to know of God?