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captivated. When she told him the event and showed him thescar, Rasûlullâh recognized her.”The enemies of Islam fabricated many slanders aboutRasûlullah (’alaihi ’s-salâm). They said he was black. In order toalienate youngsters from him, they called black dogs “arab”.Hamidullah goes even further and attempts to misrepresent thatexalted Prophet (’alaihi ’s-salâm) as a cannibal to youngsters.On the contrary, Halîma Khâtûn always kept him with her andwould not let him go far away. One day, he somehow slippedout of her attention for a moment. He went among the lambswith his foster-sister Shaimâ. Halîma, when she noticed hisabsence, looked for him and found him. She asked Shaimâ,“Why did you go out? It is so hot.” Shaimâ said, “Mummy! Acloud keeps over my brother’s head. It always shades him.” Letalone complaining about him, she praised him. Everybody whostayed with him, young or old, praised and liked him. No onesaid to have been hurt by him. He never hurt his foster-sister.He respected her rights and even her milk and he did not suckthe teat which she sucked. Halîmah said, “When he sucked, myown son respected him and did not suck.” This indicates that hisfoster-brother and sister were never hurt by him and they likedand respected him. “As he sucked his milk, (his beautiful facecommanded such strong admiration that) I could not endurelooking at his beautiful face. He began to talk by uttering thewords of the Kalimat at-tawhîd first. When he held something,he said ‘Bismi’llâh’. He did not join in children’s playing. Hesaid, “We were not created for playing.’ He never cried orhurt anybody.” In the eighth year of the Hegira, after the HunainGhazâ, a woman named Shaimâ amongst the captives said, “ORasûl-Allah! I am your foster-sister,” and told some of what hadhappened in those days. He listened to Shaimâ’s words. Herecognized her and gave her many gifts. When he was only achild, so many mu’jizas and wonderfully beautiful manners wereseen in him that they have been written in very many books.Instead of doing an honourable service such as writing aboutthose superiorities, which make the readers love him, andfinding and adding those that have remained unknown, does itbefit a professor of Islam to write in his book a thing which mayhappen among children, under the title of “The Life of theProphet of Islam”? And can the man who selects and narratesan ugly slander which was invented afterwards be regarded a- 298 -