When he was forty, the peak of one’s life -- and it is said that this is the age when Prophets were always ordered to disclose their Message -- signs of his Prophethood began appearing on the horizons of his life. Among these signs were that stones in Makkah would greet him with salutations of peace (Salam). He would not have a dream except that it would become reality, as clear as dawn: this lasted for a period of six months. The period of Prophethood was 23 years, so this six-month period full of true visions constituted an integral part of the forty-six parts of Prophethood. In Ramadan, in
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