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“Muhammad’s is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the more extraordinary his life becomes.”
― The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
― The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
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“To idealize someone is also, in a way, to dehumanize them,”
― The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
― The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
“How did the infant sent away from his family grow up to redefine the whole concept of family and tribe into something far larger: the umma, the people or the community of Islam?”
― The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
― The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
“At last it came. It would be known as the Sura of the Morning, eleven tantalizingly brief verses which read in full: “By the morning light and the dark of night, your Lord has not forsaken you, Muhammad, nor does he abhor you. The end shall be better than the beginning, and you will be satisfied. Did he not find you an orphan and give you shelter? Did he not find you in error and guide you? Did he not find you poor and enrich you? Do not wrong the orphan, then, nor chide the beggar, but proclaim the goodness of your Lord.”
― The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
― The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
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