When he approached the holy city, he uttered the solemn invocation: "Here am I in thy service, O God! Thou hast no companion.

To thee alone belongeth worship.

Thine alone is the kingdom.

There is none to share it with thee." With his own hand he offered up the camels in sacrifice.

He considered that primeval institution to be equally sacred as prayer, and that no reason can be alleged in support of the one which is not equally strong in support of the other.
From the pulpit of the Caaba he reiterated, "O my hearers, I am only a man like yourselves." They remembered that he had once said to one who approached him with timid steps: "Of what dost thou stand in awe?
I am no king.