Show wise old mahomet t it if the mountain will not come to mohammed mohammed must go to the lie mountain this well known phrase Is often used of one who being unable to have hit his own witty way bows bowa to the inevitable and does the best hie he can under the circumstances the saying originated with the prophet himself near the beginning of his career the arabs wanted a proof of his intra miraculous culoUS powers whereupon he ordered mount blount safa to come to him of course the mountain stayed where it was but equal to tile emergency announced god Is merel ful had ray my command been obeyed it would have fallen upon us and we would all have been destroyed instead therefore I 1 saull go to the mountain |