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throbbing in the mud if the water dries up, it keeps agitating for seven hours, due to such tossing around in the mud, its skin gets torn and two big wings come forth from the damaged skin, with which it flies and returns to the ocean. (ibid, pp. 222)
There is a large-bodied fish found in the black sea, called Minshār. It has huge dorsal fins, which have sharp teeth like a saw tooth on its back, as black as the ebony tree starting from its head to tail, a single tooth is about one meter long. It also has two big thorns (these pectoral fins are about 5 meters long) around the head with which it swims through splitting the seawater that makes a horrible sound. It discharges a squirt of water through its nose and mouth which looks like a water jet fountain in the sky. Its drops, then fall onto the boats like raindrops; this huge fish plays havoc with a boat if it reaches underneath. The fishermen get scared of its presence around the boat and beg Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ and seek His protection against this sea monster. (Ḥayāt-ul-Ḥaywān, vol. 2, pp. 448)
Kawsaj (sawfish) is also called the lion of the sea; it has a snout just like a saw through which it rips open the human body into two pieces and eats them up. It tears off the other sea animals like a sword does and therefore, they are frightened off. The Kawsaj fish has human teeth. There is a strange thing about the
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