The narrator tells us that the two lovers have stopped fighting and are eating each other. He says that the imam has appeared before the two of them in hell and is talking about the image of the Virgin Mary. The narrator says that he cannot move his hand and that he is going to do nothing. The imam tells him that those who believe in darkness will feast on his flesh. He tells the narrator that the bodies of those who have been baptized with the blood of the dead are bound to the preacher.