Before that which you say shall come to pass, both you and your father's house will be destroyed.

Never yet did a tyrant go happily out of the world, and you shall go out of it like a dog." Then Katrina also rose to her feet, and, calling to a group of barefooted Arab soldiers that stood near, she cried, "Take him! He will escape!" But the soldiers did not move, and Ben Aboo fell back on his seat, and Mohammed, fearing nothing, spoke again.
"In a vision of last night I saw you, O Ben Aboo and for the contempt you had cast upon our holy laws, and for the destruction you had wrought on our poor people, the sword of vengeance had fallen upon you.

And within this very court, and on that very spot where your feet now rest, your whole body did lie; and that woman beside you lay over you wailing and your blood was on her face and on her hands, and only she was with you, for all else had forsaken you--all save one, and that was your enemy, and he had come to see you with his eyes, and to rejoice over you with his heart, because you were fallen and dead." Then, in the creeping of his terror, Ben Aboo rose up again and reeled backward and his eyes were fixed steadfastly downward at his feet where the eyes of Mohammed had rested.

It was almost as if he saw the awful thing of which Mohammed had spoken, so strong was the power of the vision upon him.
But recovering himself quickly, he cried, "Away! In the name of God, away!" "I will go," said Mohammed; "and beware what you do while I am gone." "Do you threaten me ?" cried Ben Aboo.

"Will you go to the Sultan?
Will you appeal to Abd er-Rahman ?" "No, Ben Aboo; but to God." So saying, Mohammed of Mequinez strode out of the place, for no man hindered him.