Mahmoud shook his head. "Only on the surface.  You could say, I suppose, that Maryam took my religion and I took hers; we consolidated.  But, Jubal my beloved brother, I am still God's slave, submissive to His will... and nevertheless can say: 'Thou art God, I am God, all that groks is God.' The Prophet never asserted that he was the last of all prophets nor did he claim to have said all there was to say - only fanatics after his lifetime insisted on those two very misleading fallacies.  Submission to God's will is not to become a blind robot, incapable of free decision and thus of sin - and the Koran does not say that.  Submission can include - and does include - utter responsibility for the fashion in which I, and each of us, shape the universe.  It is ours to turn into a heavenly garden or to rend and destroy." He smiled. "'With God all things are possible,' if I may borrow for a moment - except one thing... the one Impossible.  God cannot escape Himself, He cannot abdicate His own total responsibility - He forever must remain submissive to His own will.  Islam remains - He cannot pass the buck.  It is His - mine... yours Mike's."