as the mountain could not wait upon Mahomet, Mahomet would go to the mountain
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[edit]as the mountain could not wait upon Mahomet, Mahomet would go to the mountain
- Alternative form of if the mountain won't come to Muhammad
- 1809 July, “LINCOLNSHIRE.”, in The Universal Magazine (New Series), volume XII, number LXVIII, page 78, column 1:
- On Tuesday evening he sent a message to the office of the Stamford paper, requesting that, as the "mountain could not wait upon Mahomet, Mahomet would go to the mountain,"—or, in other words, that the printer would call upon him, and receive an order for executing some hand-bills announcing Mr. Lambert's arrival, and his desire to see company.