ABSTRACT
As Averroes is hard at work trying to decipher the meaning of tragedy and comedy, his mind and eye wander toward the window of his library where he sees in the courtyard several children at play. One is pretending to be a muezzin and chanting, “There is no God but the God.” The second, unfortunate, child is hard at work playing the minaret, which is responsible for holding the muezzin aloft in the air. The final player kneels in the dust like a faithful worshipper. The entire affair does not last long since all want to play the muezzin and none the tower or the congregation.
