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“
What should I read?
” asked
Muhammad.
“Read in the name of your Lord who
created; created man from a clot.
Read and your Lord is the Most
Generous. Who taught by the pen;
taught man what he did not know.”
These were the first words of the
Holy Quran. Muhammad read them.
He felt these lines now written on
his heart.
Fearfully he rushed out of the cave
and saw Angel Jibrail [a] in all his
majesty, stretching from one end of
the horizon to the other.
Muhammad had never before seen
such a huge and majestic creature
nor did he ever imagine such a
creature could exist.
“
O Muhammad,
” Jibrail [a] said, “
I
