“O lions, seize them!”
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Sayyid Hashim Bahrani, author of Tafseer Burhan narrates that
Mansur Dawaniqi summoned seventy natives of Kabul and told
them: “You are experts in magic and Ja’far bin Muhammad is also
[God forbid] a sorcerer like you. If you can perform a magic trick,
which defeats him, I will give you a lot of money.”
They began to work upon this and first of all prepared seventy
pictures of lions in the court of Mansur. Each of the sorcerers sat
near the picture he had sketched. Mansur also sat upon his throne
wearing his crown and