Sublime

This message the Quraysh could not ignore, especially with the pilgrimage season fast approaching. They tried everything to silence Muhammad and his Companions. They went to Abu Talib for help, but the Shaykh of Hashim, though he would never accept Muhammad’s message himself, refused to withdraw his protection from his nephew.

Abraham was not a Jew nor yet a Christian; but he was true in Faith, and bowed his will to Allah’s (which is Islam), and he joined not gods with Allah.

Some of its verses are clear and precise in meaning—they are the basis of the Book—while others are allegorical.a

AS AN ORPHAN, Muhammad must have understood all too well the difficulty of falling outside Mecca’s religio-economic system. Fortunately for him, his uncle and new guardian, Abu Talib, was also the Shaykh of the Banu Hashim—a small, not very wealthy, yet prestigious clan within the mighty tribe of Quraysh. It was Abu Talib who kept Muhammad from fal

The Islamic approach to knowledge is exemplary. Muhammad was known to have encouraged people to ‘seek knowledge, from the cradle to the grave’ and to ‘pursue knowledge wherever you may find it’, stating that ‘seeking knowledge is a duty upon every Muslim’ and in fact ‘for him who embarks on the path of seeking knowledge, Allah will ease for him the

Clans in the Arabian Peninsula were primarily composed of large extended families that called themselves either bayt (house of) or banu (sons of) the family’s patriarch. Muhammad’s clan was known as Banu Hashim, “the Sons of Hashim.” Through intermarriage and political alliances, a group of clans could merge to become an ahl or a qawm: a “people,”

Each messenger We have sent has spoken in the language of his own people, so that he might make the message clear to them. But God lets go astray whom He will and guides whom He pleases. He is the Almighty, the All Wise.