One night Saladin made a trap to catch anyone trying to get
near him while he was sleeping. In the morning he found some
sweet bread near his head. A knife through it held a message
saying: You are under our power! No one could explain how the
things got there.
‘Perhaps Sinan does have special powers!’ thought Saladin,
‘We must stop fighting him and his people.’
No one knew what Saladin and Sinan agreed, but the Assassins
never tried to hurt Saladin again. By 1177, most of Syria wanted
to help Saladin, who was now thirty-nine. Then the news came
that the Franks and the people in Byzantium were no longer
friends. Saladin felt that perhaps now was the time to start a
holy war to take Jerusalem back from the Franks.