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^Chapter Twelve^
WE ALL KNOW that any laboring seeker will
be able to bring out the inside of each science
and he will be able to solve all his doubts
and suspicious when he finds what he needs
from knowledge and that is exactly what Abu Bishr Mata
Bin Yunis talked about in his explanation of his second
article of his book titled the Book of Nature After Aristotle
when he wrote a story about Anoshawan the king of Persia
with Mazdak the wise man that tried to trick the king by
saying that he became a prophet.
Mazdak came up with the trick of building a house of
fire. Which was a normal house but he built it with stones
mat are not affected by fire like the metal stones and all
similar stones. Then he would hide a person in a spot of
the house to talk back to Mazdak, but it would seems as if
Mazdak is talking to the fire and the fire responds back to
him. So the king of Persia heard about Mazdak the prophet
and the miracle of his talking to the fire and the fire
responding back to him and it does not bum him. The king
•'fcs so amazed and wondered about it so much that he
Wanted to see for himself this prophet and his miracle. So
king went and stood by the house of fire and listened
10 the fire talking back to Mazdak. Once he understood the
lr >ck he shot an arrow toward the direction of the fire and
** hit the man that was hiding in the house and this was a
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