Sublime

In this verse is a prefiguring, to Moses, of the Arabian Messenger, the last and greatest of the Messengers of Allah. Prophecies about him will be found in the Torah and the Injīl. In the reflex of the Torah as now accepted by the Jews, Moses says, “The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee, of thy brethren, like unto me” (Deut.xviii.15): the only P

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

With the exception of the Quran, every single source of Islamic law was the result of human, not divine, effort.