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tector too. So, despite some execel-
lent qualities, the Arabs had
become evil in the end. They lived
like barbarians and all because they
had no teacher to guide them.
Now Allah never leaves a people
without guidance and a teacher and
so it was, on one starry night, in the
city of Makkah, that a very special
child was born. The skies had lit up
from the east to the west, and even
the little desert rabbits were curi-
ously peaking their pointy ears and
tiny heads out of their burrows and
crests. Ahh, something very special
was happening, someone very spe-
cial was coming.
In fact, the child's grandfather, ‘Abd
al-Muttalib, the grand chief of all
Arabia, spent six days deciding on a
name for the child. On that seventh
day, he dreamed that the name
should be Muhammad, which
means 'The Praised One'. But what
