She was so taken with Muhammad, she proposed marriage. Ah, Hadijia, well I think she was a mentor as well as a wife, a very strong lady who had her own business, and Muhammad was helping her out, so it was a wonderful partnership and I'm sure he lear

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Rather than a physical image of God or of Muhammad, it is the beauty of the Koran itself that is celebrated in Islam. Islam developed in this context where pictures were not favored. The Koran, as it was revealed, was Gods representation on earth, an

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And that is the beginning of the prophetic career of Muhammad. The months to come would bring more revelations, powerful words of a lyrical quality, more beautiful than the most exquisite Arabic poetry. Above all, Muhammad was to bear one message to

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This is not something that is fly-by-night. This is something big and important. Islam has come to stay. In just a hundred years, Muhammads vision had transformed the spiritual and political map of the world. And his followers had established an empi

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Praying together is a good thing. It cements the idea of belonging to a movement, to a religion, to an organization, to a community. The result is something very, very powerful, even to watch, even for a non-believer or someone from another religion.

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In Cairo, a muezzin calls faithful Muslims to prayer. Its the same call that sounds five times a day every day in cities across the world. Nearly a quarter of the people on earth respond to it, bound together by the enduring spirit of Islam. ''God is

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