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As Buhairah was meditating outside his cell one day he noticed a caravan in the
distance making its way down towards the city. It was a common sight to see
caravans making their way to the city, but as he gazed towards it he noticed
there was something different about this one. In the blue sky was a lone white
cloud that floated just above the caravaner's heads, when the caravan changed
direction the cloud would follow. He watched the caravan more intently and when
it started to descend the neighboring hills he witness the palm tress bow their
branches as the caravan passed by. He noticed something else that was even
more strange, when the caravan came to rest under the trees the cloud
disappeared and the palm branches bowed down still further to provide a dense,
cooling shade.

Just before the caravan reached the market place it halted again under the
shade of some trees and Muhammad, being the youngest, was asked to tend to
the camels while the others went to the market place. Buhairah made haste to
greet the caravaners and invited them to eat with him; caravans had stopped
there many times before, but Buhairah had never invited them, nor yet any other
caravan to join him.