12 Preface إِذِ انبَعَثَ أَشقاهاYusuf AliBehold, the most wicked man among them was deputed (for impiety).1The prophet Ṣālih made a certain she-camel a Sign or Symbol, a test case, “This she-camel of God is a Sign unto you; so leave her to graze in God’s earth and let her come to no harm, or ye shall be seized with a grievous punishment” (7:73). but they plotted to kill her and sent the most wicked man among them to dare and do that deed of impiety. It was probably when she came to drink at the stream that she was hamstrung and killed. See 26:155 and 54:27.