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The horse - he shall fly without wings
When Allah willed to create the horse, He said to the south wind: “I will that a creature should proceed from thee — condense thyself!” — and the wind condensed itself.
Then came the Angel Gabriel, who took a handful of this matter and presented it to Allah, who formed of it a koummite [chestnut mingled with black hairs] saying: “I have called thee horse, I have created thee Arab, and I have bestowed upon thee the color koummite. I have attached good fortune to the hair that falls between thy eyes. Thou shalt be the lord of all other animals.
“Men shall follow thee wheresoever thou goest. Good for pursuit as for flight, thou shalt fly without wings. Upon thy back shall riches repose and through they means shall wealth come.”
Then he signed him with the sign of glory and of good fortune — a star in the middle of the forehead.
— Emir Abd-El-Kader (1807-1883) in an
1857 LETTER TO GENERAL E. DAUMAS
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