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My Faith 3 - Free Islamic Studies Textbooks

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It was the angel Jibra’il [a], the<br />

angel from Allah, the Lord of the<br />

worlds. The angel was so huge that<br />

it covered the skies from the east to<br />

the west. Even when Muhammad<br />

looked up, there was the angel, and<br />

when he looked down, there he was<br />

as well. Muhammad had never<br />

before seen anything quite as huge.<br />

In fact the whole world seemed to<br />

be no more than a speck of dust on<br />

the tip of the angels wing.<br />

“Read!” commanded Jibra’il [a].<br />

“I cannot read!” stammered the<br />

Prophet, for like many people at<br />

that time, he could neither read nor<br />

write.<br />

Then the Angel grabbed him, holding<br />

him so tightly that Muhammad<br />

thought he would faint. Just when<br />

he thought he could bear it no<br />

longer, the Angel released him, and<br />

commanded, saying to him again,<br />

my faith ...ISLAM<br />

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