And he saw the valiant bold-headed snake creeping to him in his grave. Its eyes are of fire and its nails are of iron. Each nail is a whole day's march long. And the snake told him: I am the valiant bold-headed. My voice is like thunder. My Lord has ordered me to beat you because you did not perform the dawn prayers before the sun came up, the noon prayers before the afternoon, the afternoon prayers before sunset, the sunset prayers before dark and the evening prayers before dawn. And so each time the snake beat him he dived seventy cubits deeper in his grave. He will remain tormented in his grave until the Day of Resurrection, when he will rise from the grave to see God's anger and to go to hell. The above is quoted from the book entitled: ‘Al-Zawager An Iqtiraf Al-Kabaer' [Prevention of Sin] by Bin Hagar Al-Haytami. And the following is from Mohamed Gharib, head of the tour guides syndicate: A tour guide chooses that profession upon his own accord. It is a paradox to believe he despises tourism. If working in that sector is religiously prohibited, and if the temples are symbols of paganism, no tour guide would come near them. I do not think any tour guide feels this way. Also we never heard tourists filing complaints against some fundamentalist guide. Perhaps other workers in that sector despise tourism, for they take it as a job and not as a mission like tour guides do. This was Gharib's comment on my article of last Thursday in which I said there are tour guides that look down to tourists as infidels. He is denying their existence, whereas sources within the syndicate bet those fundamentalists will sweep the upcoming elections. I tell him that one such guide told his group the story of the valiant bold-headed snake and that the group was horrified and filed a complaint with the syndicate, as I was told by sources from within. I also tell him that two totally veiled women got licenses to work as guides. Is this not a paradox?
