The Origin of Freemasonry and Knights Templar ... - Lodge Prudentia

FREEMASONRY AND KNIGHTS TEMPLARhorting them chiefly to protect the weak, the poor,the women, and to abstain from usury. He wassick for some days, the^-esult of a poison administeredto him by a woman. As he lay dying, withhis head resting on the lap of Ayesha, one of thenumerous wives he had wedded after the death ofKadijah, she heard him murmuring, as she lookedinto his pale face and slowly glazing eyes, "Nothe companions abovein Paradise."She took his hand in hers, praying. When she letit sink it was cold, and he was dead. He left tenwives (of fourteen, which he had in all), but onlyone child, Fatima, the daughter of Kadijah, his firstwife; and so long as Kadijah lived, Mohammed didnot follow the practice usual among Arabs of takingmany wives. He was buried in the mosque atMedina, and at his tomb thousands of pilgrimsgather every year.Islam is the Arabic name for the Mohammedancreed. Moslem is the name the professors of thiscreed give themselves. Saracens or Mussulmans,followers of Mohammed.127