Henri Rousseau Banks of the Oise painting

Henri Rousseau Banks of the Oise paintingHenri Rousseau A Carnival Evening paintingPaul Cezanne View of Auvers painting
which wrap themselves around Gibreel, holding him fast.
"You don't need me," Gibreel emphasizes. "The revelation is complete. Let me go."
The other shakes his head, and speaks, except that his lips do not move, and it is Bilal's voice that fills Gibreel's ears, even though the broadcaster is nowhere to be seen, _tonight's the night_, the voice says, _and you must fly me to Jerusalem_.
Then the apartment dissolves and they are standing on the roof beside the water--tank, because the Imam, when he wishes to move, can remain still and move the world around him. His beard is blowing in the wind. It is longer now; if it were not for the wind that catches at it as if it were a flowing chiffon scarf, it would touch the ground by his feet; he has red eyes, and his voice hangs around him in the sky. Take me. Gibreel argues, Seems you can do it easily by yourself: but the Imam, in a single movement of astonishing rapidity