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monastery near the town of Busrah,
on the trading route to Syria. He
had spent his life worshipping Allah
and reading the Sacred Books of
the Prophets of old, the Tawrah of
Nabi
Musa [a] and
Injil
of Nabi ‘Isa
[a]. He had read of a great Prophet,
the last Prophet, who would one
day come to the world. Bahira had
prayed to Allah asking that he live to
see that Last Prophet
The people of Makkah were mer-
chants, who traded with the cities of
Syria. Day after day, caravans of
camels, laden with goods, set out
across the golden, barren deserts.
One of these caravans belonged to
Abu Talib.
Now, Abu talib was preparing for a
journey to Syria, and as we now
know, he and his nephew
Muhammad were inseperable. So
