English Yusuf Ali OldQu…. - QURAN DOWNLOAD

oy of nine, when he went in a trade caravan with Abu Tabib to
Syria, his tender soul marked inwardly how Allah did speak in
the wide expanse of deserts, in the stern grandeur of rocks, in
the refreshing flow of streams, in the smiling bloom of gardens,
in the art and skill with which men and birds and all life
sought for light from the Life of Lives, even as every plant
seeks through devious ways the light of the Sun.
C.24.-Nor less was he grieved at Man's ingratitude when he
rebelled and held as naught the Signs of Allah, and turned His
gifts to baser uses, driving rarer souls to hermit life,
clouding the heavenly mirror of pure affections with selfish
passions, mad unseemly wrangles, and hard unhallowed loathsome
tortures of themselves.
C.25.-He worked, and joyed in honest labor; he traded with
integrity to himself and to others; he joined the throngs of
cities and their busy life, but saw its good and evil as types
of an inner and more lasting life hereafter; people gladly
sought his help as umpire and peacemaker because they knew his
soul was just and righteous: He loved the society of old and
young, but oft withdrew to solitude for Prayer and inward
spiritual strength; he despised not wealth but used it for
others; he was happy in poverty and used it as his badge and his
pride when wealth was in his reach but not within his grasp, as
a man among men.
C.26.-At twenty five he was united in the holy bonds of wedlock
with Khadija the Great, the noble lady who befriended him when
he had no worldly resources, trusted him when his worth was
little known, encouraged and understood him in his spiritual
struggles, believed in him when with trembling steps he took up
the Call and withstood obloquy, persecution, insults, threats,
and tortures, and was a lifelong helpmate until she was gathered
to the saints in his fifty first year, -- a perfect woman, the
mother of those that believe.
C.27.-There is a cave in the side of Mount Hiraa some three
miles north of the City of Mecca, in a valley which turns left
from the road to 'Arafat. to which Muhammad used to retire for
peaceful contemplation: often alone but sometimes with Khadija.
Days and nights he spent there with his Lord. Hard were the
problems he resolved in his mind, -harder and more cross-grained
then the red granite of the rock around him, -- problems not his
own, but his people's, yea, and of human destiny, of the mercy
of Allah, and the age long conflict of evil and righteousness,
sin and abounding Grace.
C.28.-Not till forty years of earthly life had passed that the
veil was lifted from the Preserved Tablet and its contents began
to be transferred to the tablet of his mind, to be proclaimed to
the world, and read and studied for all time, -- a fountain of