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to be full of perspiration ... His head
was on my lap at the time and it felt
as if I was being crushed
.”
In fact, the revelation of the
Qur’an
used to be such that, if the Prophet
[s] was mounted on a camel, the
animal would be forced to the
ground owing to the unbearable
weight of revelation descending on
the Blessed Prophet [s]. The
Prophet would often say, “
I experi-
ence so much pain and exhaustion
at the time of revelation that it feels
as if the throes of death have come
over me
.”
But despite the great difficulty of
receiving revelation, Allah had
made it bearable for his beloved
Prophet [s]. If Allah had to utter his
words directly to man then, not just
man, but all of creation would be
reduced to dust by the power of his
words. After all, Allah is the All-
