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Chapter Nine (Scarecrow)

The happiness of (the light) of the Messenger was great when the followers of the new religion and the new God became spread everywhere and in all regions and countries of the planet Antaroto, which the new god of the planet Antaroto (the god Antar) singled out for him. And the difference that they claimed was between them to tighten their grip and impose their control on the believers, and they raised their position among the inhabitants of the planet (Antaroto), thanking and indebted for that great credit to Antar, the new god, whose happiness with what was happening was not less than their happiness and his ecstasy exceeded their ecstasy, Antar became the official god of the planet Antroto, which is recognized not by the entire planet, but by the believers, the slaves of its followers, who believe in it and drum for it, either because they are hypocrites, deceivers, or naïve in the sense of believers who believe in it, and by it they are united and submissive to this religion, but as usual, every group or herd must have fearful or some opponents of this thought.

Or that religion, and a tone of dissonance must appear between the tones, or so it appears because it is a tone that plays a melody other than the usual melody, and it repeats a hymn other than that which is repeated by the herd of believers who worship ascetics and who have become devoted to Antar and loyal to him. He changed the melody of the herd, which he had become accustomed to in recent years, and it became a sacred duty, but the strangest thing about this dissonant tune was that the one who played it and chanted its melody was the same one who was one of the most faithful to God and the two sons of Antar al-Antari, and one of the most staunch believers and those who are conservative and adherent to the faith.

The same young man (Arif) is a young man in his twenties. This young man was the only grandson of (Nisr). His grandfather, Nisr, raised him after the death of his father and mother. I was usually made of clay and pottery that was used by all the inhabitants of the planet Antarto, as they depended on it for their lives, and if necessary, they would make or ask an eagle to make some statues for them that they used to bless and weave around them myths and legends, as if they were saying that they were the spirits of evil gods and metamorphosed This is the pattern that he makes for them (an eagle that is very knowledgeable, and sometimes they are blessed by it because it avoids them the wrath of God, or it seeks and causes, as an amulet of luck, to bring sustenance, goodness and death to them because it is worn by the spirit of the gods, the gods of goodness!

Of course, these concepts had changed to some extent after the spread of the alleged Antar divinity, especially after the first envoy (Nour) made a tremendous effort with the slave believers, which only brought a few fruits that increased, grew, grew, and blossomed until it became a fruitful tree after, thanks to the help of (the three preachers, Maher and Shaher). and Qahir) who became the stars of the Antarian society on the planet Antaroto, but the effects and remnants of the past remained stuck in the minds of the believers, and they considered that these statues were a spiritual medium with a divine whiff of the greatest and only God, the original God, from whom all the small machine with its sacred spirits that fluttered over them was found and emanated It emanates from the spirit of the god Antar and is clothed in these statues that they request specifically for this purpose to be blessed with, and they ask them to supplicate and mediate through the spirits of their god Antar to forgive them if they sin and reward him if they deserve the reward and be pleased with them and not obligate his wrath and wrath upon them.

Although Antar rejected this idea at first and opposed it utterly because he was afraid that the faithful slaves would forget him and worship these clay statues, Samson convinced him that this issue was completely in his favor, as this idea supports the idea of creation from clay that Samson the Magician was promoting through the three preachers. (Skilled, famous, and omnipotent

) And he commanded Antar to ask them to do so, since Samson the magician was secretly making human forms and casting his spells and magical talismans on them to make them serve him and make them move like human beings completely or delude all believing slaves that they move with a magic trick after he puts it in front of them in the roads and streets and thus proves that there is a creation of Clay, of course, was promoting through the three sermons that Antar was the one who created it and breathed into it from His spirit in the same way that He created all the inhabitants of the planet Antaroto while they were in their mothers’ wombs, and that their origin is from clay, thanks to Antar.

Therefore, there is no objection to every believer believing that Antara is God The eldest breathed his spirit into these statues, which sometimes were made by an eagle, in addition to his manufacture of household utensils, and gave them an air of divine Antarism, and made them like small deities emerging from angels entrusted to him. Therefore, Antar became accepting of this idea, rather happy with it after Samson convinced him of its important advantages, as it supports the idea of his divinity and his proclamation. About himself as a god, which confirms the idea among the gullible believing slaves who were previously convinced of the idea

And when Aref was still a young child, and one day, as usual, when the little child (Arif) sat in front of his grandfather (Nasra), and the child took in amazement and admiration, contemplating his grandfather while he was busy making a clay statue. From the planet Antarto, especially when he was mastering in making one of the statues required of him. At this moment, the child (Arif) entered his grandfather (Nasra), while he was busy making the statue. It is a statue in the form of a tall, huge man, and next to him is a woman who appears to be a small part of this man's body, as if it stemmed from one of his ribs or from a part of his huge, strong body. He contemplates it, while his eyes utter astonishment and looks, and questions almost rain from the space of his mouth?! On this very day, the child (Arif) sat contemplating the making of this wondrous statue, and followed with passion the movements and ripples of his grandfather’s hand that swim in the midst of a sea of clay and sticky mud in studied turns and calculated steps in making the statue. Suddenly, Arif asks his grandfather, and bewilderment fills his lips, from which drops spilled. The anxious characters say: Why, Grandpa, do I see the woman appearing small and weak next to this man? Aren't both statues identical in type and size? !!!

So the grandfather (Nasra) looked at him with bewilderment and apprehension. His looks seemed to tremble and bewildered like a pendulum in his going and coming. Although the grandfather eagle was not convinced within him of what was happening and within him doubts were circulating, but he was accusing himself of not fully understanding or weak faith. Sometimes he was not affected by the words of the three preachers. Especially that he was a supporter of the preacher (Maher) who follows moderation and moderation and says that love and tolerance in matters of what is permissible and forbidden and not extremism are among the divine attributes of Antar. A good man, but an evil, spiteful man who hates the god Antar and that he wants to attract them to him. It was rumored among his old supporters that he died, but he remains to seduce the faithful slaves and keep them away from the path of God because he is hateful to him from the day he expelled him from his palace and the paradise of his bliss that he used to enjoy in the luxury of living there in a palace Antar and Firdaus when he was close to him at the time before the Antarian curse fell on him, and Nisra's confusion increased even more until after he sat with (Abu al-Hikma), especially since his sarcasm and paradoxes were mixing seriousness with humor, laughter with crying, and truth with imagination. His bewilderment between his ribs, leaving its flames raging between the folds of his chest, trying to silence her in various faith-based ways, but what Nisra feared most was his young grandson Aref sitting next to Abu al-Hikma and admiring his joke, as he saw that Aref had a lot of questions and thinking, and he saw that he might rethink the paradoxes of Abu al-Hikma, but he soon He would never come back reassuring himself that his grandson was still young and that the father of wisdom was seen by everyone as nothing more than a cynic, a fool, or an incompetent person, so he calmed down a bit and then became silent, as if he was waiting for something to happen or waiting for an event or something, then suddenly he woke up

Grandfather (Nasra) on the voice of his grandson (Arif) calling him: Grandpa..Grandpa.. Where have you wandered with your imagination? Is there something you are hiding from me??

THE GRANDFATHER: With a stammer not without anxiety and confusion (No, no, son, nothing. I am just exhausted from so much work, and I feel that I need some rest.

Aref: I thought my question was difficult or impossible to answer.

THE GRANDFATHER: No, on the contrary, you naughty grandson.. Your question is very clear, to the extent that you answered it in your question without realizing it!!!

With great amazement, Aref added: I answered my question!! And how did that happen?!!

THE GRANDFATHER: He took a few steps closer to his grandson and answered him with great confidence. That happened when I said that the size of the woman seems weak and insignificant beside the size of the huge male statue. This is natural, my son. This is the nature of the woman, that she is weak in build. Whatever the size of her body, this body remains weak in strength in front of the strength of a body. The man, and here she is, announces herself while standing quietly next to him, in a clear declaration that she is part of him or part of his body and his strong ribs.

Aref: But is it not possible for a woman to be a woman or a female unless she is poor and weak, or if she stands in such a manner that expresses her meager role or meager status?

THE GRANDFATHER: With obvious fidgeting, (Now won't you stop asking these many questions of yours? I knew you were getting tired. You would discuss every little thing

Aref: I apologize, grandpa, if I have burdened you with my inquiries, but I have the right to understand

The grandfather sighed a long sigh and exhaled a deep sigh, then added: Because the woman is always subordinate to the man, my son. The woman is weak and always needs someone to lead her, and since she is originally part of the man, he should not lead her and follow him because she is the weaker side and has specific functions and a limited role that the man delineates for her.

Aref wondering mixed with amazement: Is this why I chose the shape of the statue to be like this?

Grandfather: Because it represents the first idea of creation, we humans originated from dust and mud, and the origin of creation was from an original father and mother who gave birth to all mankind. Didn't you listen to the sermon of the preacher (Maher)? ?

Aref: Yes, my grandfather, I remember that very well, but I also remember how I used to wonder and ask myself in confusion throughout this religious lesson, a question that puzzled me a lot, and I wished to ask the preacher (Maher about him), but I was afraid that he would mock or not care about my question and my confusion, perhaps because he considers me a small child and perhaps he will not care By answering my question, it will not mean anything to satisfy my confusion

The grandfather worried and stuttered: What is this question that occupied your mind, my son?! And why did you raise all this confusion inside you?!

Aref: Honestly, my grandfather. If what he claims, I mean what the preacher Maher and the jealousy of the other three preachers say, is that we were created from dust and necessary clay, then where is that clay?!!! I injured my finger one of the past days and after this sermon specifically to make sure for myself and see this damned mud, so I did not see any trace of it!! I was amazed. Then the grandson Aref goes towards the statue that his grandfather works with and takes a few steps closer to the statue looking at it with looks full of confusion and suspicion. He said: Where is the blood?!! If I am the origin of this statue, then where is its blood??!! And if the statue embodies my creation, then where is the clay in my body??!! If this statue means me, then where is the blood??!! And if I am the origin of this statue, where is the clay??!!! If I am an extension of him, as they claim, and if he is part of my genesis and the foundation of my morals, then where are we from the other??!! To see that each of us, me and him, is far from the other.

The grandfather swallowed his saliva, which suddenly dried up in a circle, and its water dried up, and his stuttering increased, as if he had asked himself the same question, but he pulled himself together, straightened up in his seat, and erected, then sighed as if he was gathering his strength and gathering his mind, saying: I see you, dear grandson, straining your mind and wasting your time on useless things From her, but I sent you to the teacher to learn to read and write with all the children of our country in the planet Naruto, so that you become aware and understandable, but not to ask and wonder about what is not yours.

Arif, with astonishment mixed with some anger: Not for me? What do you mean grandpa I understand you?

THE GRANDFATHER: I mean, my son, and what I mean is that the preacher is skilled, or all the three preachers, but they are more capable than you and me of realizing things that we cannot comprehend, no matter how hard we try.

Arif: What does it do when we can't understand such things?

The Grandfather: Because, my son, there are many unseen things that may weaken faith and shake it if a person thinks about it, and I do not want your faith to be shaken. And sanctities, and never ask about anything, no matter how strange it may seem to you, and you must also forget to think completely. In order for your faith to increase, you must not think, and you must completely cancel your mind, otherwise you will not be a believer.

Aref took two steps away from the front of Jeddah, as if he was shocked by what he heard. Then he looked at his grandfather, pensive for a few moments, then said quickly, as if he wanted to finish his speech. .

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Aref the child remained immersed in thinking for several days, but he did not reach a conclusion except for one inevitable thing, which is what his grandfather told him, that there is no way to believe except by moving away from the path of doubts and thinking, because doubts are bad things, exactly as he heard from the preacher (Maher) and as his grandfather Nisra advised him to take the path of faith and to be A believer must avoid a lot of astonishment, doubts, and useless questions, and he began to remember between himself and himself the words of the skillful preacher that pierced his ear like arrows, and he reminds them of the grace of the god Antar, and how he hid his divinity from them throughout this long past period, out of concern for their good, and how he could no longer appear to them after he He became in his being and his sublime self with divinity out of fear of him and mercy on them because they, as human beings, did not bear and their nature would not bear his appearance before them, and how he postpones lasting bliss and the appearance only to the believers at the end of time after he is sure of their loyalty and their innocence to him, and how they are in an examination and in a period of testing the strength of their faith in order to They deserve His approval and avoid His wrath, and how and how He has His wisdom even in the harm that befalls some of them as believers while they do not know that He spares them with this harm other suspicious and frightening things that may kill them. Or rather, his mind was difficult to accept these ideas and sermons, which the preachers used to pour into the ears of all the faithful servants, the servants of God (Antar). Rather, more than that, he became one of the followers of a skilled preacher, one of the ascetics, the worshipers, who believed everything he said, and even one of the defenders, and he was tormented and asked forgiveness of his great god, Antar, when he remembered his arguments with his grandfather when he was a young child. Maher and Shahrida, both old and old, both of them, Shaher always told him and reminded him that God does not worship ignorance and that his holy book and his heavenly law are the law of Antarabi, the

Antarian law that was revealed and imposed on them by God Antar, a tolerant law that urges knowledge and even agrees with it, and there is never a conflict between them, and that the more he deepens in science and science Studying and reading, he will discover that the tolerant Sharia is full of knowledge, but rather scientific miracles, then he used to tell him stories about the scholars and researchers who read the tolerant Sharia of Antar, discovering with it the knowledge and scientific miracles that were predicted by the Bible and this tolerant Sharia since the formation of the planet Antarto and before it was even created by the great God Antar That God who always sacrificed for the sake of his servants and hid himself from them for a long time in the guise of a ruler only.

With the passage of time, Arif became one of the followers of the preacher Shaher and one of his disciples, and at that time he was one of the most enthusiastic of him, although the preaching Shaher did not tell him for a single time about the names of those scholars who found knowledge in the divine law of Anturabi and believed in the Bible and followed it because they They found scientific miracles in him, and he did not teach him, neither their whereabouts nor their names, but he obeyed him and took the sweetness of his resonant words and his resonant sermons, in addition to that he loved his grandfather an eagle very much and did not want to anger him, and he knew that his grandfather was afraid for him a lot, especially after his advanced age. Aref is one of the staunchest defenders of the Sharia of Antar and his book, and one of the most enthusiastic about it and those who work with it.

And Arif, that young, handsome young man, had a sweetheart who had always loved him sincerely, and their love grew together since they were little. She is no less intelligent than Aref. They sit together every night in the moonlight, chatting and exchanging conversations. Aref always tells her about his visits to the preacher Shahr and his admiration for him, and that he differs with his grandfather Nisra in his inclinations towards moderation only, which the preacher (Maher), the skilled and convincing person, enjoys.

He sees the future, development, and the conclusive evidence of the advancement and civilization of the religion and the law of Hammurabi, and the book that the god Antar wrote and imposed on them, which they recite at night and at the ends of the day. As the scientific preacher (Shaher) does, it is one of the finest and strongest evidences of the validity of faith and the divinity of (Antar the true God) and that only moderation and tolerance that the skilled preacher focuses on is not enough, but the preacher (Shaher) must brandish the weapon of science and faith to show and explain to every skeptic the greatness of religion And the genius of believing in the god Antar and believing in him when he sees the extent of his knowledge and the extent of his scientific predictions and his genius that he created in making the constellation Antarto, that unfortunate planet. And the magnificence of faith is manifested in it.. which always combines with its genius between both contradictions!!! This is how he saw Arif and believed, and he often poured his words into the ears of his little sweetheart more than he used to pour into her ears the words of love, longing for her, and love for her, and she always listened to him with listening and wisdom with admiration and fascination, and shared his opinion in her admiration for the preacher (Shaher) and her belief in the genius of the divinity of the god Antar, especially that he Many years have passed since Aref was a child, and the god Antar sent during these years many envoys and messengers sent on his behalf, perhaps because he was ashamed of a poor person.

And all of them did as the first messenger Noor did, and they suffered from some unbelieving rebel rebels, but the god Antar was soon saving the believers from among them, either with a ship in which they would save themselves with His noble Messenger, leaving the infidels in their disbelief and drowning in the depths of the sea, or with a table that descends on them and offers them colors of food On top of it is a delicious and solid calf, or by giving the believers orchards and trees of grapes, olives and fig

s. As for the unbelievers among them and the non-believers, woe to them all woe, and for them is the clear punishment. God, Antar, the Great, the Powerful, the Mighty, the Strong, was quick to pour out His wrath upon them and punish them with intense anger from Him and His stubborn wrath, either with a fierce wind of cockroaches, or with a flood, or with lice that land on them, or locusts, lice, locusts, and other colors Torment and punishment are infidels, and this is what befits their wickedness, their lack of faith, and their weakness in the face of the temptation of the damned (Saman), who grudges against the god Antar from the day that happened in the past, and who deceived them with the story of his death until they forgot the truth and drifted behind his deception and worshiped him for a long time. (Shaher) always, and Aref admired his stories and tales that he used to tell them, regardless that these stories had no evidence of them except that all the preachers raved about them as if they were a factual and scientifically proven certainty, regardless of the fact that none of the faithful slaves asked himself how it is possible And when do these paranormal events occur??!! The sweetness of being a believer brings you closer to the Most Merciful and keeps you away from the whispers of the damned (Saman), and because of course no one knew about the matter of the sorcerer Samson, who was rendering his services to Antar the mysterious god in exchange for his prestige that he had with him, and no one saw this sorcerer Samson and only the minister knows him. Qandil Samson used to make magic and delude people with the divine torments and punishments of Antar and spread those fake stories so that the faithful slaves would believe that Antar is a powerful, wise, knowing god. And the beloved used to prick her ears as she listened to the stories of Aref, which he used to convey to her about this preacher (Shaher), and she believed them completely and felt with him the sweetness of faith.

He said, with full confidence and faith, when she asked him about a saying that seemed strange to her. It was said by the famous preacher, or a skilled one, or even a conqueror of the reactionary fanatic, and the signs of skepticism and lack of conviction or ratification appear in her pocket immediately and firmly