So saida to Moyhammlet and marhaba to your Mount!

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  • If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain: a well-known proverb
  • So said I
  • Zaid: Mohammed's adopted son who divorced his wife so that Mohammed could marry her!
  • magh: (Irish) plain → in place-names this is usually Anglicized as Moy (e.g. Moynalty, Moytirra)
  • Mohammed: the Prophet of Islam
  • my hamlet: Dublin → in parts of Dublin my is pronounced moy
  • Hamlet: eponymous character in Shakespeare's Hamlet
  • saida: (Arabic) goodbye
  • marhaba: (Arabic) welcome! good morning!
  • Abraham: (anagram) Biblical Patriarch who is also mentioned in the Koran
  • Mount Hira: the mountain near Mecca on which Mohammed supposedly received his first revelation